Wearing our favorite Vivienne Westwood for Melissa shoes. I wear a Coven dress, husband's Lacoste cardigan, YSL belt, Look From London plaid tights, Arms and Armory necklace, and pearls from the district. Christina wears a Zara jacket, Uniqlo plaid shirt, Forever 21 dress, American Apparel leggings, pearls from the district, and an Obama button.
Last week, we stopped by the Melissa Shoe Showroom to visit Katie, and view the new SS09 Melissa collections. As most of you know, Melissa is a Brazilian based plastic shoe company known both for its fun, practical, weather proof footwear, as well as its ongoing fashion forward designer collaborations with Alexander Herchcovitch, Zaha Hadid, Judy Blame (!!!), and now, Vivienne Westwood. In addition to being the most comfortable and fashion friendly rain shoes you'll find on the market, Katie informed us that the shoes are made of 30% post-consumer waste, and in most cases, are completely recyclable once you take out the removable insole. The company is also dedicated to fair trade and manufacturing processes, which adds to the general sense of guilt-free consumption. Retail pricepoints hover around $50-$150 (with a few crystal-encrusted exceptions), and most styles will be available at Brooklyn store, Epaulet, this spring. Really, you can't get more 66S than a pair of campy, plastic Vivienne Westwood pumps that can be sponged off after a night out on the town. I'll take two!
Top row: Vivienne Westwood T-strap heel with toe-indentations. Bottom row: our favorites, the Vivienne Westwood pumps with giant hearts. I'm ordering the white and red pair.
Vivienne Westwood flats with three ankle straps.
Luxury Melissa: J. Maskrey's crystal studded peep-toe flats and thongs
These much blogged about Alexander Herchcovitch brogues look super cute on, and the black pair are easily mistakable for patent leather.
While Zaha Hadid's architecturally inspired, aerodynamic shoe has been reviled by many as 'the ugliest shoe ever,' it actually looks pretty cool and dynamic when you wear it, simulating the impression of velocity and movement. Even as a static, sculptural object, the shoe is reminiscent of Umberto Boccioni's 'Unique Forms of Continuity in Space.' Not many people want to wear a Futurist statue on their foot, but as the daughter of two Architects, I can't help but feel the love...
-Tiffany
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