Balenciaga Architectural Shoes

Footwear meets architecture in Balenciaga's shoes collection designed by Pierre Hardy. The shoes are made from a variety of materials (including plastic, wood, metal, and more). Cool and crazy.

Which pair is your favorite?

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Oldest Shoes Compilation

Old shoes doesn't sound interesting but here are some fine examples. These shoes range from the incredibly short and tall Venetian Chopines, which had 2 foot soles for courtesans to wade through sewage lined streets, to the opposite-shaped long, skinny, medieval Poulaines, which had toes stuffed with moss. Interestingly the worlds oldest shoes come from the New World, or Oregon to be exact.

One of the favorites are the Roman shoes from the time of Constantine, whose style show just show eastern, or to our eyes, Arabic, the Empire would have felt at that time.

Ancient Greek Pair of Terracotta Boots 900 BC

16th C cows mouth shoe

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Uber Size Marker by Everfresh

With the new schooling season just started, this shoes whitener is just what you need... With that size, enough for the whole year... surely... 

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Real Life Cinderella Heel

The Glass slipper is a testament to Margiela's fantastical designs.  Now who wants to see if the shoe fits or rather in this case the price fits? These limited edition glass heels are available at both the Maison Martin Martin Central and Harbour City stores.It's certainly not cheap and interestingly enough they are selling the glass slippers not as a pair but per piece. Anyone up for starting a new trend with non-matching shoes? 

I don't really think the shoes really wearable. And if someone really can fit into it, I don't think the shoes can withstand the weight of human...

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Lola Loves Shoes. Here's One.

In late spring, I met a young lady down the block from me and, after noticing a tattoo of scissors on her foot, talked to her about her ink. She was walking her dog at the time, so she took a Tattoosday card and said she might be interested in sharing some of her work at a later time.

Fast forward a couple of months to late June, and I ran into her again, down the block, and she shared this tattoo:

Lola loves shoes, and she had this done by Eddie Carrero at Inkstop Tattoo NYC. Work by Eddie has appeared previously on Tattoosday here.

Thanks to Lola for sharing her passion for shoes with us here on Tattoosday!

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