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Flatforms are a hot button issue. “I remember being on set once with a woman infamous for her over-the-top ensembles who said she wouldn’t be caught dead in flatforms. “Who needs the cankles?!” she proclaimed from her seven inch Brian Atwood platform pumps” recalls Steff Yotka, editor of Shop-Ghost Magazine, when just mentioning flatforms to her.
Fair. No one wants cankles. But as footwear trends have evolved from loafer to brogue to creeper to sneaker wedges, it seems flatforms are the last frontier of foot fetishism. Somehow the shoes of go-go dancers and glam rock boys would become the standard for lez tea-sippers to hiphop girls alike.
“Blame it on Prada, the brand so famous for making bad taste seem oh-so-good”, says Steff, again [See: plastic banana earrings, which I still dont understand why I like so much, but i have found 5 different outfits to wear with them already] Flashback to Spring 2011 collections and find the birth of the flatform on Prada’s runway, below beaded Josephine Baker dresses and fox stoles, merged with a men’s brogue, raffia trimmed, brown leather with treads on bottom. Right there was when the tacky flatform, reserved for highfalutin Japanese punks and ladies of the night became the asexual shoe that would woo women and men uptown and downtown alike. For a good year, there wasn’t a safe place to rest your eyes without chancing upon the Prada brogues or a knockoff cousin.
Zoom forward to Spring 2013 collections and you’ll find the flatform again on Prada’s runway, this time inspired by Japanese getas. Somewhere in between is Chanel’s Cruise collection at Versailles that bred Marie Antoinette with some sans-culotte rebels resulting in pastel pretty lifts fit for Louis XIV himself.
After such high profile support, flatforms are rising up to be the shoe of the now. With Superga flatforms you can feel like TLC, a nod to the nineties moment in skinny track pants, a cropped tee, and some hoops, or you can channel a seapunk avatar in a pastel Acne mini and bomber jacket. Strap on some sandal flatforms beneath your overalls to keep it Americana, or just throw on a caftan and you’re Verushka. Even Macaulay Culkin wears them with ciggys and a beer; that’s a good enough reason right there.
PRO/CON: FLATFORMS (by Steff)
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PRO
Being short and looking up at people’s chins can drive you crazy. [Look at Napoleon!] Flatforms are an easy way to gain height without looking like you’re trying too hard in heels.
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CON
Despite appearances, walking in flatforms is HARD. Feet aren’t meant to be perfectly flat – you need a little lift in the heel for support – so walking down a cobblestone street becomes an obstacle course.
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PRO
Comfort is a given. It’s pretty much a sneaker, which next to barefoot is the best you’re going to do.
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CON
In extreme flatforms you run the risk of looking like a fashion victim. Or at least confusing your parents.
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PRO
A good flatform goes with everything from cocktail dresses to jean cutoffs, meaning that during the summer months they’re going to get lots of wear and will make the money spent on them totally worth it.
THE ONES WE LOVE THE MOST, WE’LL GIVE IN TO THEIR EVERY MOVE
Kenzo
Topshop
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Opening Ceremony
Superga
Urban Outfitters
Antiques Appraisal
If i could choose to be like anyone when im 85, i would most definitely, hands down on the floor worship style, want to be like Linda Rodin.
I’ve never thought just anyone can understand fashion in its true form. And as i can admit, it’s easier said than done. But this ‘true form’ im talking about is simply just simplicity.
You need a sense of child-like playfulness and no seriousness at all, you have to know yourself and know your wardrobe and you need a strong mind not to give in to intimidation of fads and the way others dress. Even at 85-years-old, you can see Rodin has possessed these qualities in her, her entire life. She was born with it. Yes a lot of it is learned, takes practice and good will, but in those who are as good as Rodin at what they do, have had in them before they knew who they were.
Rodin’s father was a dentist and her mother was a decorator, she also owned an antique shop…
…which explains her vast collection of nitbits!
Rodin is a stylist based in New York who now focuses all her energy on her own range of beauty products, Olio Lusso by Linda Rodin. She began her career as a model in the 60s! She’s worked with photographers like Richard Avedon, Peter Lindbergh, and Herb Ritts.
She featured in a recent J Crew campaign.
Read all about her success story HERE.
LINDA’S LIFE TIPS TO HAPPINESS
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Favorite Stores
“I always find something in J. Crew. Always. There’s also this great store, Creatures of Comfort, and I like Uniqlo. They have the best jeans.”
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Keep it Simple
“I’ve worn jeans since I was 15, which I still wear everyday, and any shirt. I’ve had this shirt for 20 years, as you can see. I revolve everything around a good pair of jeans. … I don’t care who makes them, as long as they fit.”
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Signature Color
“I’ve always loved hot pink. Now I wear a mood lipstick that turns pink, and I wear a Makeup Forever pencil…. I just bought 25 lip pencils in this color!”
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Fix It!
“I learned from styling that you can always fix it. You can pin things, puff things, and fake it. I also have a great tailor. I can buy a coat that’s too big, and it can be scaled down. I can take a sleeve off of this and put it on that, put a waistband in something that didn’t have a waist. … I feel like I can buy anything.”
AND WHAT ABOUT GETTING OLDER?? eeeek :/
Linda believes that lots of sleep and a good diet are two of the keys to aging gracefully.
When it comes to looking older she says,”First of all it’s not easy getting older. It catches up on you all of a sudden. It’s definitely more interesting to let yourself go through the process than do a bunch of surgery and get addicted to a face that’s not even yours. You can’t chase youth. You’ll just look older with a face lift.”
WATCH! ‘A CHAT WITH LINDA RODIN‘
heel appeal
Two new additions to my shoe cupboard are these Superga x Henry Holland flatforms and a pair of red Melissa x Vivianne Westwood boots. They are still to be delivered from the UK, BUT I LITERALLY CANNOT WAIT! I just cant resist a good shoe.
Since i was young i never thought i was a shoe and handbag kind of girl. But over the past few years i often find myself thinking about anything except that. It all stated when i read an article called ‘The Perfect Shoe’ in Elle many, many years ago. I still remember the illustration pointing out the qualities of a good shoes, and i still havent forgotten it.
When it comes to heels, a good shoe will be equally balanced. When buying a heeled shoe always hold it up and even out the ratio of toes and the balls of your feet to the heel with your eyes. The rise in the shoe will be right in the middle, therefore the distance from the middle of the shoe to the heel should be the same as the distance of the middle of the shoe to the toe. You’d be surprised once you start taking notice of this that there are so many heeled shoes that are not made this way and are uncomfortable to walk in.
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Enter the void
“I know no way of judging the future but by the past” – Elaine Maxwell
There is an undoubtedly strong link between the past and the future within everything that we do. The way we are brought up shapes our adulthood. When we look on the past we realize how important all of that really was. In fashion, we see trends come and go, and come and go. But in a way, what has come and gone has shaped what is still yet to be. I guess there is nothing new these days; someone else before you has done it all already, but you can do a better job of it, with the clarity of the past paving way for better creations, thought processes and a bigger, stronger imagination. These are some designer collections from 2007 – 2011 that have shaped the current trends of 2012 and 2013. Its strange how you can actually see bits and pieces of these in current runways trends. Each outfit above would be deemed socially acceptable today!
From top left: Betty Jackson Fall 2011
Charles Anastase Spring 2010
Alexander Wang Spring 2009
Bottom right: Balenciage Spring 2008
Bottom left: Donna Karan Spring 2007
SEE-RIGHT-THROUGH-ME
So i made my own collage, it’s pretty wild! Im not sure if i’ve captured the ‘mood’ of the outfits in the background pictures, but i think Closet Collage could dig!
This is a display of one of my favourite trends: transparent wear. The featherweight, sheer materials like silk chiffon, organza, and mousseline have a romance about them that this trend captures so perfectly.
Saturday morning
I have been looking for a specific pair of dungarees for nearly a year until i found these at a denim warehouse in the middle of nowhere last week. It was a Thank The Heavens moment for me. The still intact paper tag read Old Navy, size small, $35. I don’t think they’ve ever been worn! I wish i looked somewhat more happy in these pictures. It was on Saturday morning and i had Kent Andreason over at my flat taking pictures of Tom for the new Alex Knost/RVCA range for AStoreIsGood. So while I was hiding in the shadows and got these snapped in less than 5 minutes during an outfit change.
flatform shoes: Zara
white tee: the label reads ‘Country Seat’, its second-hand from a church fate.
DIY makes you itch!
Jessie Cohen is the blogger behind Closet Collage. A magazine hourder from birth (im guessing) she makes all of her collages by hand! Her pinterest page is amazing – all of Jessie’s work is displayed in colourful columns, fashioned with her picks of the lastest runway trends, and some old ones that still haven’t left us.
When i see these collages it makes me itch to work with my hands!
In the above collages we have in picture 1. Mary Katrantzou, Fall 2012, 2. Louis Vuitton, Spring 2010, 3. Jenni Kayne, Resort 2013, 4. Stella McCartney, Resort 2013 (I AM IN LOVE!) and 5. Jonathan Saunders, Fall 2012.
