Magnificent Obsession

Probably, at least here in Italy, spiked heels aren't trendy anymore, just look around in the streets and you will realize that the mass phenomenon characterizing these last few years is now dripping. Also STYLETTOS Italy corrected its route, if before the claim was "every woman on stiletto heels" now we drifted toward less aggressive, even if equally evocative, shapes. What is not over is the cult of footwear, the search for a model that is exclusive and original, or maybe also apparently equal to any other, but with that something more, that can renew a woman's look by itself, even with used dressing or ordinary jeans.

Women spend fortunes to get the last designer pumps or boots, and every fashionable girl has her closet full. All editorials and comments you find in fashion magazines underline the importance of these so-called accessories, new brands and shops come out everyday, and this is not only here in Italy, the boot-shaped country. The epidemics is now spreading all over the world like an infectious disease.

Maybe someone happened to see the movie "In her shoes", representing a competitive and problematic relationship between two sisters (Cameron Diaz and Toni Collette) different in everything but for the passion, common to many others, for brand name shoes by cult designers like Jimmy Choo or Manolo Blahnik, already famous all over the planet after the television series "Sex & the City ".

And what about men? Nobody should think that the cult of women's shoes even as sexual objects is less common among men. The obsession for women's footwear is a serious matter, and for many a compulsive feeling, almost a kind of addiction. Maybe somebody else can remember the final scene in "There is something about Mary", by chance with Cameron Diaz again, where the perennially rejected lover (Chris Elliot) tries to steal main character's footwear collection.