Posts Tagged ‘flower shoes’
Fairy tale shoes fanciful and foresty.
How happy do these shoes make me?
I especially love the little garlic bulb reference in the first shoe on the heel. It is wintery and foresty and fit for an elf queen.
And these little numbers below remind me of the totally-blew-my-mind away book called Fairyality in which the artist creates fashion out of leaves and flowers and feathers for an imaginary fashion house called Ellwand. I have inserted the book cover below. We have a copy at the store for you to come and see.
Manolo Blahnik is a creative genius, but really I didn’t need to tell you that… here is a collection of my favorite sketches, photographs and collages of his awe inspiring flower footwear (oh so Katrin Leblond style)!
The leaf appliques on the laces of these stilettos would go PERFECTLY with the Katrin Leblond vine skirts and tops! Remember the absolutely fabulous reversible KL hoodies with the vine work over the front pockets – to DIE for!
This picture just screams Frida Kahlo, one of Kat’s many muses. Isn’t there just something so beautiful about confident, talented and independently fierce females?
Rosettes!!! Each KL rosette is made by hand either in the studio or the boutique. The store manager Erin is especially talented at making them… for those of you who aren’t familiar with KL’s signature Rosettes, they are great accessories you can play around with and put in your hair, wear as a necklace or bracelet… all made out of the smaller pieces of fabric that can’t be transformed into a full garment! I urge you to experience them for yourself! It’s all about using what you have and avoiding waste in a beautiful way 
There is something so amazingly theatrical about this collage by Mr. Blahnik… did you know Katrin collaborates annually with Circus Smirkus and creates the full collection of costumes for the performers? Kat has a long history of dressing entertainers of every genre… musicians, dancers, acrobats… the list goes on and on… not to mention a previous very fabulous collaboration with Cirque du Soleil!
Erin is the earth goddess of the KL team… the above picture is for her mother earth beauty… she looks fabulous in browns and blues (and of course combinations of the two). I’ll bet you upon visiting the KL boutique chances are you’ll find her in those colors (if you do, please let me know my assumption was right!)
Flowers are amazing to begin with, but paired and designed in correlation to shoes… well my dears… I’m not sure it gets any better than that. Thank you Mr. Blahnik for lending your amazing talent for all the world to see!
xox
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