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 Posted: Thu 19:40, 29 Aug 2013 Post subject: Why flatlining is now the height of fashion |
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Why flatlining is now the height of fashion,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych]
In any case, we're moving out of the complex fug of the high heel and into a whole new era of flats and mid-heels. Shoes you can walk, run and feel comfortable in. What's that all about? The economy is what, according to a new report linking the nation's flatlining finances with… flat shoes. Yes I know. Who employs these people? The economy's been tanking since at least 2008. Louboutin did a 6½-inch heel in 2011.
No my friends, this is about fashion. Fashion is tired of the killer heel. It doesn't see any future in the relationship. As far as fashion's concerned, it has given its all trying to make things work. Louboutin toiled day and night to produce a shoe that,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], technically, functioned. But there are limits to the ingenuity of even the greatest, most optimistic shoeman. After 6½ inches, you've reached the logical and practical terminus of the heel: there's nowhere to go but down.
The mid-heel is going to be the chic evening choice in the seasons to come. Listening to designers who decried it as the epitome of middle age talk it up as the acme of style will be very entertaining.
For daytime, however, the really fashionable choice will be a flat shoe. Hip designers such as Nicholas Kirkwood and Tabitha Simmons, both Brits,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], report a big upsurge in demand, a sign that women are willing to invest a considerable number of pennies onflats.
To be honest,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], the flattie always has been popular down on the streets. As Louboutin was scaling new heights, the average girl about town was running around in ballet flats. These have been a staple of the shoe wardrobe for more than a decade. When they weren't on our feet, they were in our handbags and totes, waiting to release us from the torture of higher,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], flashier, less considerate shoes. There wasn't much of a flattie alternative: brogues and trainers were mooted, but perhaps because of the way they covered the foot,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], they just weren't as flattering with the ubiquitous skinny jean.
But now it really does seem to be nail-in-the-coffin time for ballet shoes. The looser silhouettes coming our way don't quite work with them. Nor does the "new" fishtailed calf-length skirt,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], which will be all over the place this autumn.
The brogue, however, does, albeit in a consciously-unsexy-therefore-maybe-quite-sexy way. Brogues, along with loafers,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], have been invading fashion for a few years, but soon they'll be inescapable. Céline's chunky white loafer, with its doorstoppingly thick sole, is the kind of shoe only a cognoscente highly attuned to the arcane aspects of footwear could love. It was one of the trophy shoes of the front row a few weeks ago. The brogue has also been um, rebooted and elevated on to tractor style "flat-forms" at Prada, or hybridised with a PVC clog and hoisted on to even higher "flat-forms" at Stella McCartney. The model Agyness Deyn has just designed a summer flat for Dr Martens, a school-style sandal on a huge, spongiform sole. So now you don't even have to be tall to wear flats.
What you do require is a certain attitude. Flats bespeak confidence. They encourage a slouchy,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], hand-in-pockets insouciance (as it happens,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], the new,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], wider, masculine trousers come with pockets). You're meant to wear both trousers and shoes with floppy shirts and sloppy jumpers, and adopt a quietly unassuming manner that suggests that even if you have just stepped off a Margaret Howell catwalk,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], your mind is on loftier matters - peace in the Middle East say,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], rather than Kim Kardashian's maternity-wear issues.
Is this why the Duchess of Cornwall wore her posh plimsolls in Jordan the other day? Whatever the reason,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], she looked stylish and youthful, the PP having become a modern classic. It was Emma Hope who first thought up the PP. In the beginning, not everyone - not me for one - could see the point,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], butits enduring popularity has spawned a wholegenre ofdressing, Dress Down Luxury.
Hope has been mercilessly copied in the decade since - annoying for her, but also gratifying. If she never comes up with another original idea, she's earned her place in shoehistory. As Diana Vreeland and/or Coco Chanel said, elegance is refusal. It's also comfort.
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