Who wore it better?

I found some shoes for KY.  What do you think, love it or hate it?

They're disgusting; yet if needed, she'd definitely be able to pull them off.

Thoguh I'm sure she wouldn't... goth and S&M are SO 1999.

LOL
They kind of look like weapons

How would you even wear that? Am I seeing it wrongly or is does the heel really not touch the ground?

hate em. i could always see KY in some cunt Irregular Choice shoes. Love ICs 

The IC's are sexy.

It looks like the heel on the other ones juts obnoxiously down but never touches the ground, doesn't it? 

They are Nina Ricci. They seem to defy logic and gravity don't they.  Interesting and creative.  Here is a link for the heck of it.  I can't embed a flash video for some reason.
http://video.aol.com/video-detail/nina-ricci-shoes-f09/792529956

http://jezebel.com/5165522/have-you-seen-nina-riccis-stupefying-shoes

More on those shoes (sorry for Jezebel link, I have a complicated relationship with that blog too) including pics of models wearing them. Apparently none of them fell. Personally, I find these completely nasty - the vestigial heel could be witty in a completely different context, maybe (like, if KY WERE wearing them, or someone else who is doing a super-uber exaggerated femininity on purpose, without calling too much specific attention to the shoes, and there were some other point to the performance...) - they'd have to be deceptively subtle, in other words, which maybe they were in the context of the actual fashion show. Perhaps that's it, actually; maybe it would've worked better for me if the shoes hadn't been the first thing all the blog coverage mentioned. Then again, the clothes in the show don't really blow my mind, so what else were people going to react to?

Something in me resents these models having to risk their necks for someone else's art project, too. Though, again, since nobody fell, maybe they were just amazingly well-engineered (the shoes, I mean) and that point is moot. Still, I feel that way about models in general - they are just used as living canvases; the only way they can express themselves is by walking and, if they're unlucky, responding well to a fall or mishap. How is that fulfilling?

I know it's not really fair to trot out the "how is that fulfulling" argument. Who knows what fulfills people?

I think goth/S&M never really goes away. XD It may be used and discarded at the moment, but I bet the subcultures are as strong as ever. (I have always been really attracted to goth and am enjoying wearing the style cheaply sometimes, now that the clothes from when it was in vogue are in thrift stores. Wasn't that a weird time? Seriously, walking through the mall and seeing puffy black blouses and dangling white things at Bebe and Express. A combination of heaven and hell.)

Never mind, KYK beat me to informational link.

http://www.attitudeclothing.co.uk/product_17783-73-1146_Hi-Sole-Black-Piano-Shoes-by-TUK.htm

Speaking of KY shoes, the TUK piano platforms: why do I not like these? Something about the proportions is off. A shame because the idea is stupefyingly pleasing.

PS KYK: I meant no negative statement toward you by mentioning that people called attention to the shoes from that show first, etc. I heard about them earlier and I know most of the conversation has been about them. Also, God in heaven, now that I see the model walking in them, I don't imagine how anyone could've talked about anything ELSE.

That woman is demonstrating the art of moving very very very very carefully.

(Except -with a nod to P_X's lovely statements on Twitter the other day- what the Ricci shoes do is not really what KY's style does. At least, not me. Her clothes and shoes are very exhaggeratedly feminine, and some of that is definitely about parody, and some of it is definitely about a kind of suffering, but it is also genuinely glamorous and pleasing. It says that femininity is a crap crazy thing imposed on people, but that it's also a lot of fun too, and the more fun you have with it, the less crap crazy it gets.

Don't ask how I get that from a dress made of bubbles and a pound of makeup, but I do. And I think I'm meant to, among other things.

I guess you could argue against that pretty easily, saying that by dressing femme out of love and choice, you're just participating more and more in the idea that women MUST be glamorous, and the power you feel by having fun with it is all an illusion...but really, what's the alternative to putting on women's clothes? Putting on men's clothes? Masculinity, to put it mildly, has its own problems. You may as well just enjoy yourself with whatever style you prefer, whether it's masculine or feminine. That's how the world will change a little.)