The luxury designer labels, hit by the credit crisis, want us to keep spending, and while we seem to have reached saturation point with the number of bags on offer, footwear was, until last year, relatively untapped.
Not any more. We are now bombarded with images from the catwalk of multi-coloured platforms and wedges in weird and wonderful shapes, fashioned out of ever more exotic skins. Barely a week has gone by when there hasn't been a new shoe trend the gladiator, the caged platform, the shoe boot to swoon over in the pages of Grazia magazine.
WOMEN have begun to learn, for the first time, the names of shoe 'couturiers', such as British designer Nicholas Kirkwood, French maestro Christian Louboutin and American favourite of the stars, Brian Atwood. According to Holli Rogers, head of retail at Net-a- Porter, which sells labels only at the top end of the market: 'We have seen an incredible increase in sales of footwear. Women are spending more to attain better design and craftsmanship Bottega Veneta is a great arbiter of this.
(Via Daily Me.)
Also, the rise in status of designer shoes has certainly contributed to this trend.' Net-a- Porter's winter best-sellers included Christian Louboutin's Moro shoe boot for Roland Mouret, which sold out in three colours despite an eye-watering price tag, and for spring the Christian Louboutin Rodita sandals and Chloe's patent cone-heel shoe boots are selling briskly.."
