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Christian Lacroix: Shine on, you crazy diamond!

I’ve long been an admirer of Christian Lacroix creations, especially shoe-wise: they’re usually funky, fresh, creating that much-need rush of blood to the head as in “hey, that’s pretty cool!” reaction. To me, this is the go-to guy when you need something over-the-top: he does it well, but with refinement. At the Paris show he pretty much had only two shoes he had his models strut in (one shown here from two perspectives):

I guess the message is clear: shiny goes with everything! More gold! More snakeskin!!! But above all, gimme metals and beads and sparkles–I wanna SHINE!

And hey, I’m down with that–every once in a while.