Well Shod, Well Imformed

TIN ROOF, RUSTED!

Over the weekend the zex-zy Fraulines from Les Mads gave their readers a preview proper of the new Acne A/W 09 collection. After spotting their post the Despotic Queen frantically tried a snatch and run with the images but the Fraus Fabulous stopped me cold by embedding some HTML trickery into their blog.

Thankfully, Frau Chuh Chuh was on the case and overnight posted a selection of flatlays that I could work off.

Imelda loves hipster irony and I’m down with those Scandi designers but I’ll freely admit my interest in Acne is zero to none. The Despotic Queen’s last Acne post (READ HERE) prompted a range of responses, mostly questioning the stability of the nail heel, but the one comment that echoed in my thoughts was left by Imelda’s hometown gurl (and fellow Shoe Blogger) Shoes Mend Hearts.

Shoes wrote “I don't rate it at all. I don't think they fit with Acne's brand of simple and effortless cool, they make far too much of a statement”

If 'Shoes' thought one nail heel was making ‘too much of a statement’ then mercy, what will she (and YOU) make of the 'tri nail' heel.

You might think the disconnect between the brand’s orthopaedic aesthetic and these headline grabbing heels is astounding but the Buyers have their cheque books open. Amber Long, Director of Jean Brown revealed that she’s placed an order on Acne’s rusty (single) heel for her Queensland based luxury emporium. In our conversation that followed my last Acne post (when Imelda questioned the originality of the heel) Long admitted to the Despotic Queen “I like the rusty heel hardware even if it’s not original”

NEEDLEWORK

This morning as I trawled through my reader, I discovered fraulines fabulous from Les Mads had the skinny on the new A/W 09/10 Acne collection.

Under normal circumstances I’d be all up in Acne’s business over the pom-pom trim. But what caught Imelda’s eye was Acne’s new needle heel, or rather the similarity between Acne’s needle heel and a heel used by Spanish born designer Vincente Rey.

As previously reported by Imelda, last year Rey launched legal action against both Martin Margiela and Roger Vivier over a perceived copyright infringement.

Vincente Rey TOP, Martin Margiela BOTTOM

Of more interest to the Despotic Queen is how quickly this torturous looking trend is filtering down the fashion chain. Over the past 3 seasons I’ve watched as a number of designers have interrupted the needle heel, including Ungaro, Hussein Chalayan, Camilla Skovgaard and Marc Jacobs.

Far be it for Imelda to advocate a sensible Sally attitude (the higher the heel the closer to God), but not all my Imeldettes doeth have my bunions of steel…so my question to you - is you feelin' it?