#THEY LOOK LIKE ALEXANDER MCQUEEN ARMADILLO BOOTS

[shojo]

Um hello????

WAS NO ONE GOING TO TELL ME

ABOUT THE STEAMPUNK VERSIONS OF FREDDY 

AND, MORE IMPORTANTLY, BALLORA????????

LET’S NOT FORGET THIS LITTLE BASTARD TOO. 

[tsubaki-11]

Cosplay Progress - Ortho

One of the things I’ve been looking forward to making for Ortho are his shoes, since they’re such a unique shape.

For the Fairy Gala skin specifically, I think ballet boots would be the most accurate option since Ortho’s “feet” look narrower than normal. However, in most of his other skins his feet look more like Alexander McQueen’s armadillo shoes. Since ballet boots are expensive and force the wearer to walk en pointe (which I absolutely cannot do), I went with the second option.

I started by thrifting some high heels. I covered them in plastic wrap and duct tape to protect them, then started building out the “armadillo” shape in photo 3. I watched a Youtube video for inspiration on how to DIY this, and ended up cutting strips of a sturdy paper and taping them together to get the curve. The Youtube video recommended paper mache’ing the shape to make it permanent, but I’d like to be able to remove the covering and wear these heels as they are. So in step 4 I cut the shape to make the weirdest pattern ever, and in step 5 you can see how it looks in fabric all sewn together. Finally, in photo 6 I added boning just like one would for a corset.

I didn’t photograph this but I also added some fabric to the bottom and a snap on the back so that the covering would enclose the shoe. And this is how it looks actually on the foot:

I’m very pleased with this so far. I want to clean it up a bit, but it’s already reminding me of Ortho just with the shape.

[moonspower]

Vi, what are the highest, in inches, a pair of heels you've worn? By the way, you look fabulous! Keep it up!

❝Thanks. Sooooo... I own a pair of Alexander McQueen armadillo heels that I won at an auction, and they're about 12 inches high so they're absurdly tall. I only wore them to a party once! But, everyone was like. Wow, you're living in the future! Now, for an every day kind of boot, my YSL Opyum ones are pretty nice. 3 inches, so they're not insane. But the heel part looks really cool. Y'know, I used to do drag for a minute, so I got heels in every size.❞

[twstedstoryshop]

I need to get this out of my system since we’re on the topic of Ortho looking fantastic. I KNOW Idia is That Bitch who acts like he doesn’t have a lick of fashion sense but if you actually sit down with him and let him ramble, he can list off brands and give honest critiques of various looks. He’s using fashion terminology and making scathing remarks that could have a Pomefiore student clutch their pearls.

Why do I say Idia is secretly a fashion follower in the shadows? Because Ortho always looks gorgeous in his various looks and his lil feet in some outfits look similar to fUCKING ALEXANDER MCQUEEN’S ICONIC ARMADILLO BOOT. SPECIFICALLY MADE FOR PLATO’S ATLANTIS RUNWAY. IDIA YOU’RE NOT SLICK.

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replica Alexander McQueen shoes

October 2009, Alexander McQueen presented a historic runway moment at Plato’s Atlantis SS 2010. Alexander replica Alexander McQueen shoes McQueen fashion presentations were the first to use paint shooting robots for a dress in a Spring 1999 show. Then they introduced a game of human chess in Spring 2005. After that came the Kate Moss holograms in Fall 2006. The shows are out of this world, but unfortunately, months after the 2010 show the designer tragically passed away. The SS 10 McQueen show had robot-mounted cameras and prosthetics to make models look like aliens. The collection got its inspiration from reptiles and sea life and was shown live-steam on the internet.

The Alien shoe was 3D printed from a special resin to give it its distinctive look. It was inspired by the artwork for replica Alexander McQueen womens bleach white oversized sneaker Ridley Scott’s Alien 1980 movie. The Titanic shoe depicted an ocean liner’s metallic hull. It also gained design references from John McTiernan ‘Predator’ movie which featured technologically advanced extraterrestrial life. The most notable of Alexander McQueen's fashion shoes was the 30 cm high ‘Armadillo’ boot. Hand-carved from wood and 3D printed, the Armadillo shoes resemble a ballerina standing en pointe. Looking back at Alexander McQueen Fashion and his creations, it makes you wonder where he would be now. We would probably see many more 3D printed collections.

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Heel appeal: how the sexy shoe became the new status quo | Fashion

The Duchess of Cambridge has new shoes. On the offchance that it is not immediately obvious to you why this development is culturally significant, allow me to explain. The duchess’s style is remarkably consistent: for as long as anyone can remember, she has worn pretty clothes in eyecatching colours, teamed with neutral pumps, the heels of which are high enough to look formal while remaining walkable. LK Bennett Sledge courts, which have a subtle platform sole to make them more comfortable, are a favourite. Yet, for the unveiling of the blue whale skeleton at the Natural History Museum, she wore a daringly bare, vertiginous pair of Prada sandals.

Now, the duchess is no early adopter. Conservative with a small c, she stuck with those nude pumps three years after everyone else was bored to tears with them. So, if even she is wearing a sexy shoe, the sexy shoe is the new status quo. The ultimate It shoe of the upcoming season makes the duchess’s Prada sandal look like something you might slip on to buy a pint of milk. Saint Laurent’s rhinestone slouch boots were a phenomenon from the moment they hit the Paris catwalk. Within days, Rihanna had Instagrammed herself in a pair with the one-word caption “obsessed”. Customers were ringing stores demanding to know when there would be a waiting list to join. Net-a-Porter has spent more on the boot than on any other item this season; and months before they were visible on the site, half had been sold to VIP customers. Oh, by the way – should any appear on the open market – the price tag is £6,000.

Royal footwoman … the duchess’s scalloped suede Prada sandals. Photograph: netaporter

Ridiculously expensive, borderline unwearable and aesthetically outrageous – nothing new there. A shoe like that hits the headlines every season. Two years ago, it was the fur-lined, backless Gucci loafer that you couldn’t afford, couldn’t wear on the pavement and couldn’t get on the waiting list for. Last year, the must-have shoe was anything in velvet, arguably the least appropriate fabric for a British autumn. Crazy shoes never go out of fashion.

But what has changed this season is the seduction factor. For most of this decade, fashion’s focus has been outrage, rather than allure. From flatform sandals to embellished trainers, shoes have been brightly coloured, tactile and ornamented, but they have been Man Repeller shoes, rather than date-night shoes. This was in stark contrast to the Sex and the City era, when the emotional appeal of shoes was inextricable from sex and romance. The show was sometimes hilarious on the subject (Carrie’s Manolo registry, when she gets married to herself in order to get more shoes) and sometimes awful (Big’s shoe-closet proposal, which neatly represents the witlessness of the spin-off movie when compared with the TV show.)

The physiological purpose of a high heel is to accentuate curves by tipping breasts and bottom into an S-shape and exaggerating the sway of hips in motion. However, by 2010, two years after Sex and the City had hit the big screen, catwalk heels had become too high for this to work. Alexander McQueen’s Armadillo shoes had heels of almost 12 inches and a prehistoric claw-toed silhouette that was defiantly non-sexy. By summer 2014, there was a fashion week stampede toward high-end flat shoes: crystal-studded walking sandals at Prada; couture trainers at Chanel. The Gucci loafer mania of the following year kept heels low until last year, when the wind changed with the return of the kitten heel at Vetements and Christian Dior, and the over-the-knee boot trend, pioneered by the Hadids and the Kardashians. When the new season arrives in stores, Calvin Klein’s ankle strap sandals are likely to inspire a host of high-street copycats.

Defiantly non-sexy … Alexander McQueen’s Armadillo shoes. Photograph: Francois Guillot/AFP/Getty Images

We could spin a yarn here about what these shifts tell us about ourselves. From Cinderella to The Wizard of Oz, shoes lend themselves to storytelling. But the psychology of shoes is not analogue, so analysis linking flat shoes to uncertain economic times or the return of high heels to the Trumpian, great-physical-shape mode of cataloguing women in 2017 doesn’t hold water. Fashion historians have noted that in the periods immediately before revolution – in 1780s Paris, for instance – heels are often particularly high. A stiletto can represent confidence, but it can also be a portent of a bubble about to burst. Of course, we don’t need to travel to 18th-century France to see the complex, contradictory psychology of shoes: look no further than the under-desk shoe-swap, whereby women wear one pair of shoes to travel to work and another to walk around the office. Sensible shoes are practical, but heels have potency. Victoria Beckham once said that she couldn’t concentrate in flats and I sort of know what she means.

So it is that, at the moment when gender fluidity hits the cover of US Vogue – well, if you count borrowing your girlfriend’s T-shirt – the spike-heeled delicate sandal, the most gendered of all garments, is replacing the Stan Smith trainer as fashion’s power shoe. When the mercury falls this autumn, the shoes of the season will get temperatures rising.

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I Tried the 10-Inch Platform Shoes Lady Gaga Wears — and This Is What Happened

Lady Gaga. Between her crazy costumes, strong vocals and acting chops, it’s hard not to want to be her in some way. And since I can’t dance, sing or act, I looked to replicate her fashion style to fulfill my dream of being somewhat like Mother Monster. The meat dress was out of the question because, just, no. Those Alexander McQueen Armadillo boots were a good thought, but seeing how Gaga received three pairs of the shoes for a total cost of $295,000, I decided to go a different route. Then came the Pleaser USA, Inc. shoes. The “A-YO” singer has been seen in the 10-inch platform boots on multiple occasions, including the 2017 Grammy Awards and at the 2016 Met Gala. She, of course, made it look like she was walking on a cloud. And the shoes are surprisingly accessible, retailing for $130, so I decided to try a pair of the label’s Beyond 1020 style for the day because why not? Lady Gaga wearing Pleaser platforms at the 2017 Grammy Awards. First, the patent-leather ankle boots came with a warning label: “Due to extreme heel height, the 9″ Infinity and 10″ Beyond shoes are strictly meant for show purposes.” Stopping there, I thought,

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