We have seen a few of the shoes that were a part of the Haute Couture shows last week.  Newyorkmag.com  put together a slideshow of couture shoes, including these beautiful heels from Armani Prive.

Source: The Cut

I love seeing what other people are wearing.  Here are a few links that give us slideshows of what people were wearing during the Couture shows. 

New York’s  High Line Street Style from style.com.

So, New Yorkers, put your best shopping outfit on and hit High Line!

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Don’t you love Cannes?  Eleven days of style and red carpet fashion.  Oh Yeah, and films.  Here are just a few of the shoes seen on the red carpet.   

These shoes have been a hit with those who don’t want to be seen as playing it safe. The trouble is that they have been seen everywhere.  Variations of this shoe have been seen on Madonna, Victoria Beckham, Kerry Washington (twice)  and Isabelle Huppert.  

One of the reasons I love Cannes is because it truly has an international attitude.  The women don’t have that odd wax lip thing going on.  The mature women don’t look like they have a Kabuki mask on.  They have allowed themselves to age gracefully. Right now, Isabelle and Robin Wright Penn are my heros.

 I Love, Love, Love the way Isabelle made an odball dress work with these shoes.  Isabelle Huppert in Louis Vuitton Fall Collection 2009.

Kerry Washington at the Amend Charity Luncheon, Cannes 2009.  Kerry wore a gold version of this shoe.

Asia Argento in Armani Prive

Charlotte Gainsbourg wore some amazing Balenciaga Heels.  I have tried to get a large photo, but I am a techno dork, for which I appologize.

Sarah Marshall wore Sergio Rossi’s coil heel.  Do you love these or what??  I didn’t think they were available yet. 

Bae Doo-na from Air Dolls wore Steve Madden Gladiator Flats at a daytime press conference. She wore a gorgeous Doir dress later that night.  (I will include the dress just because she looks so great in it. )  I love a girl who goes from Steve Madden to Dior.

Ya gotta include Phoebe.

Most photos fom Red Carpet Fashion Awards

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It is that time again, yes.  Paris fashion week for the couture labels.  Oo la la.

It wasn’t my favorite collection this time around.  A little on the snoozy side.  Couture is where you can really go for it, you know?  And these… well, mostly not so much with the going for it.

Armani Privé did some variations on this d’Orsay pump.

I’m not terribly impressed.  It’s nice and all, but a little *yawn* for a couture show.

Though, this combo of dress and shoes was a knock-out.

Chanel was also feeling the sparkly appliqué trend.

*thunk*

What?  Oh… sorry… dozed off there.  My head must have hit the desk.

Let’s see… I’m still nodding off over blah beige numbers from Christian Lacroix (left, which makes the models look like they’ve got coral sprouting from their ankles) and Elie Saab (right, which seriously interests me in absolutely zero ways… zero).

Can Givenchy wake me up?

Wow!  No!  In fact, those look disturbingly like hospital-wear or slippers or something.  Something that’s NOT going to make me more alert.

Valentino?  Nope.  Any shoe whose separated-at-birth twin is one of those hideous shell-covered mirrors doesn’t wake me up.  It just makes me want to sleep through the tackiness.

Jean Paul Gaultier perked me up a little bit.  Sure, the structured, mostly-monochromatic thing isn’t necessarily brand new for him, but he did some interesting amendments with more feminine flow and flashes of color, and you know I love me some shoes that come with their own built-in fishnet hosiery.

But, not surprisingly, it was John Galliano who gave me the jolt of caffeine I really needed.  His Dior shoe (it was just the one shoe, really, but in lots of different colors) is fabulously rococo, which only made it that much better to see him bringing in things like Delft tiles and Renaissance portraiture and even a cracked-out Little Bo Peep number.  Love!

I suppose I will just have to sigh and throw my hands up at this season’s couture shoes and hope for better luck next time.

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Whenever I wear a pair of pointy-toed shoes or boots, as I did this past weekend, my husband is prone to making comments along the lines of “Well, I can see which boots you’ll be wearing on Halloween.” This type of none-too-subtle witch reference is not lost on me. There are even those who categorically hate all pointy-toed shoes and use the phrase ‘Witch shoes’ dismissively. As for me, I simply shrug off any negativity regarding this classic style - as would anyone who has ever been lulled by the siren call of the perfect pair of pointy pumps. That perfect pair of witch pumps works its own spell on you so that you are unable to resist their particular charm.

Here’s to being the best-dressed witch in the neighborhood.

Manolo, Armani, and Weitzman, Oh My.

Manolo Blahnik Buckled Bootie $765 at Neiman Marcus

Manolo Blahnik Buckled Mary Jane $775 at Neiman Marcus

Manolo Blahnik Bow Pump $735 at Neiman Marcus

Georgio Armani d’Orsay Bootie $745 at Neiman Marcus

Stuart Weitzman ‘Mega’ Bootie $325 at Zappos.com

So many sweet pretties. *Cackle*

Okay, now that I’m back to Earth and off my broomstick, my Never Pay Retail budget tendencies are kicking in. So, here are a few somewhat more affordable alternatives for those of you currently situated in more of a bargainista than fashionista mode.

Daniblack ‘Viceroy’ Bootie Pump $112.50 $150.00at Zappos.com

Carlos by Carlos Santana ‘Vintage’ $78.00 at Zappos.com

In the end, I’m very tempted to grab these truly funky NYLA Knee-high Boots.

NYLA Janette $97.18 $190.00 at 6pm.com

I’ll get you, my pretties.

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Hot on the heels of Shoesense’s post about John Galliano’s crazy shoes (and please, let’s take a minute to goggle at the maestro’s Klimtian clothing that is simply gorgeous) comes some other footwear from the Paris Spring 08 runways.

Anne Valérie Hash offers this cool shaped shoe in a variety of colors:

And from the Armani Privé show comes a number of variations on the super-high spike heeled, pointy toed, bow-embellished pump.

My fave shoe from the Armani Privé show, though, is this glitzy version, which accompanied one of the many gorgeous business suit inspired evening looks that came down the runway.

Paris Fashion Week has started off with a beautiful bang, and I can’t wait to see what other couture outfits we get, whether or not there’s an Oscar red carpet for them to show up on in a few weeks.

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