Fetish Sandals Candid Camera

Truck Crash in Berlin

Agent Provocateur Mini Clubman

More Patent Red Extreme Pumps

Due to the interest recorded, I'll publish another clip of those 6 inches heel red pumps already posted time ago, showing these vertigo heels in action in various situations. The original video comes from LIFETISHstyle YouTube page, and the shoes, needless to say, are by Elite-Heels.
P.S.: The referred clip is not available anymore, then I put another one.

Vintage Boots

I must say I like these extremely high heeled laced boots with quite short toe box. They remind me those 50s fetish pictures with Bettie Page and other pinups.
Talking about boots, why don't you have a look at (and maybe take part in) my friend Shoegal's new Boot Contest?
It's fun, sooner or later I'll join too.

Dita Again in Corset and Platforms

Just to say that we are still here after Season's Holidays, another fine video with Dita Von Teese in turquoise corset, white stockings with black heel and back line, black patent pumps with 8" heels and platforms.
Best wishes of a Happy New Year to everybody!

Dita in Corset

For those who are fed up with stiletto heels, here is another popular fetish subject, the thight lacing corset.
This quite long (but not complete) TV except presents an overview about the corset along the centuries, with famous wasp-waists of the past and the present, and first of all the prettiest of the pretty, Dita Von Teese. Her images are breathtaking as usual, see previous posts.
A corset is a sexy garment that becomes for some a real style of life, a weird and amazing discipline of permanent waist reduction. If you want to see something extreme, look at a few samples here.

Red Patent 6" Heel Pumps

Browsing for fetish shoes news and pics, I came across a few YouTube clips, mostly by user LIFETISHstyle, featuring these beautiful and extremely high red stilettos by the well known German firm Elite-Heels.
By the way, there is a very similar model on sale by another well known e-shop, Italianheels.com, so that I wonder if it isn't actually the same shoe.
Can anybody help solve this mistery?

High Tide Heels

Are the Ladies ready to go on holidays? Are they already done with their luggage? In case a pair of fins is missing, I suggest this evening model, perfect for a Hollywood swimming-pool party or to dive at midnight from a thirty meter long yacht.
This stiletto fins picture has already spread around the world, just Google "High Tide Heels" (or also "High Heel Fins", "Stiletto Flippers" or anything like that), and find dozens of forums and blogs that reposted this topic in the last few weeks.
Since somebody says I post too seldom, I will join the chorus, trying to update the state of the art, inasmuch as it costs nothing.
Let's say first that the picture's origin is still uncertain, apart from the fact that the plate reflected in the display window is Belgian (it's said to be a shop in Liège, maybe an art gallery) and in fact, as long as I know, the first to post it was a Belgian blog in March.
More recently the photo was reposted by British, American, German, Swiss, Greek and Italian blogs, just to name a few, and was sacred by Manolo's Shoe Blog, that also made clear this not being a completely new idea, but already seen on the catwalks by Australian designer Lisa Carney and by more famous Jean Paul Gaultier.
These are the certain facts, then we only have speculations, for example it's not clear whether or not these stiletto flippers, seen also in coral red, are on sale somewhere or if somebody even tried or bought them, in order to sport them on some very stylish beach.

RoSa Update

Many of you will remember a previous post about "The Life and Adventures" of my friends Roger and Sarah Adams of RoSa Shoes from Brighton, UK. Not only they've made the pointiest shoes on earth, now they are also making the highest, thinnest and curviest of heels.
And what about "Yummy Mummy" Sarah? I imagine she got a little bored from collecting orders and filling bills, so that she must have decided to become an internet star in the meantime. Her pictures and videos are literally invading the World Wide Web, and the audience seem to be enthusiastic...

Stiletto Sluts

This is a quite long except from Peter W. Czernich's Stiletto Sluts, recently re-edited in DVD by Marquis Video, where Dita Von Teese and her Mistress wear many gorgeous high stiletto heel and platform shoes.
I was a little bit uncertain before publishing this video, but then I decided that the video is quite acceptable, and when Dita is involved I can't say no.
Stiletto survey: which pair do you like the most?

Incredible Platforms

Most famous designers are proposing impossibly high platform shoes and sandals for this Spring-Summer. As an example, these Emilio Pucci 5 1/2" sculpture platforms with transparent vynil upper are on sale at Zappos Couture for little less than $700.
Since it's always fun to play the Fashion vs Fetish game, here is a little YouTube video showing a fetish model wearing some different but still remarkable (and maybe cheaper) skyscraper high platforms. By the way, don't see why this video is flagged as inappropriate.

Last Boots

Winter, if it ever begun, is to finish. Boots bought on sale are still sported around for a few more weeks, and the latest models are bought at bargain price for the next year. Will summer boots be the trend as it was last year? I doubt so, browsing magazines and web sites only platform sandals and open-toe slingbacks are seen.
Global Warming consequences...
P.S.: Original video replaced with another by the same author, July 16, 2007.

The Notorious Bettie Page

After staying (maybe too much) on Dita Von Teese and her wedding problems, let's go back, so to speak, to the source: she, Bettie Page, the mother of all pin-ups. The pretest is The Notorious Bettie Page, whose exit in Italy was many times announced but never fixed, while in America the movie is already archived. As long as we heard, director Mary Harron (American Psycho) put in scene the contrast between Bettie Page character, solar, innocent and ingenuous and the sado-masochistic contour of riding crops, corsets, gags and skyscraper heels. The world of “particular tastes” pornography comes painted as a workplace like any other, with a result, according to most comments, quite plain and boring, in spite of actress Gretchen Mol good interpretation. In conclusion, the real Bettie Page is and remains an unattainable myth, distrust imitations.

Dita Update

Everybody knows this already, so we can't pretend to ignore that burlesque queen Dita Von Teese and goth rocker Marilyn Manson are divorcing. Von Teese, whose real name is Heather Sweet, filed papers last December 29 in Los Angeles Superior Court, citing "irreconcilable differences". Other news about the split report fights over custody of the couple's two cats, Lily and Aleister.
The marriage lasted little more than one year, since Dita and Manson (real name: Brian Warner) were wed November 28, 2005, according to the court documents. The goth-style ceremony was held in an ancient castle in Tipperary, Ireland, officiated by cult film director and writer Alejandro Jodorowsky, that of The Holy Mountain.

Dita Always Higher

Web statistics are an amusing and instructive game. I often stop and watch the tables full of figures saying how many people come to my web site and which pages they visit, and the bulleted maps showing from which part of the world visitors arrive. Sometimes I find strange and unexpected things, for example a particular visit concentration from South Korea, from Turkey or Mexico.
One of the most interesting is the search statistics page offered by Google Sitemaps, showing which keywords visitors use to reach the website from the search engine. Many arrive on the web site simply searching “stylettos” and that's normal, but, apart from this, the most loved and most clicked is always her, Dita. Few months ago I published a blog about Dita Von Teese, and since then the fans of the famous pin-up, wife of rockstar Marilyn Manson, come everyday numerous.
Then I say: Do you want Dita? I'll give you Dita! Here's the YouTube video of a long television interview on French channel Antenne 2, where the Queen of the Burlesque appears in all her splendor, shot from several angles, absolutely elegant and well heeled.

Yay for Pointy Shoes!

Roger and Sarah Adams from RoSa Shoes are two good friends of mine. In spite of rounded toes ongoing trend, they set up a new brand name to design, make and sell pointy shoes, or better, the pointiest shoes and boots on earth.
Actually they're not new to this sort of things. In the 80's they ran a gothic fashion shop in Brighton UK, retailing old stock shoes from the early 60s and post-punk styles produced by small London factories. Then they begun to design their own range of classic pointed stilettos, and their shoes were worn by Milla Jovovich and Madonna, and stocked by designer Katharine Hamnett, while their higher heel production ended up supplying most fetish shops in London, plus others in Europe and the USA. After that, they were out of the shoe business for fifteen years, while they came back to more conservative activities, bought a house not far from the beach and enjoyed a quite family life.
In one word, the characters are quite original and their story amazing indeed. He's told to be a gifted guitar player and skillful shoe designer, while she's a kind of high heel mummy, now in her ...ties, but still as hot as she was twenty years ago.
Their new RoSa Shoes range, produced in Italy in Civitanova Marche, takes inspiration from those early days, but with the quality of Italian-made leather shoes, that makes these unique pieces suitable for the original and confident woman who enjoys teetering nonchalantly in high slender heels and elegant pointy toes, making other women desperately demand: "Where did you get THOSE SHOES?!".

There Is Something About YouTube

The recent purchase of extremely popular video web site YouTube by Google for $1.65 billion in stock is probably one of the biggest news to date in the internet world. The site, which was started by three 20-somethings last year, is a free video warehouse that allows users (something like 100 million a day) to upload or download movies. Rumors emerged that Yahoo was in the bidding war until very close to the end. Sequoia Capital, which funded YouTube with $11.5 million, earned more than 40 times what was invested in a company founded in February 2005. Other news report of CBS, Vivendi-Universal and Sony BMG joining a new branded channel on YouTube to deliver featured content.
On the other hand News Corp-Fox, which owns MySpace, the first YouTube competitor in the web video market, didn't hide sort of unease about Google's move, given the recent agreement for hosting Google ads on the famous social networking community. Last weekend, subtle changes occurred on MySpace’s homepage and user pages to make MySpace videos much more prominent and accessible. The default user profile page now has a video section that automatically displays a video if the user has one uploaded.
In other words the web video world is exploding, and the "viral" video technology invented by YouTube is the engine of this explosion. What's this "viral" stuff? It's the ability of embedding any YouTube video in a blog or web site just as simply as this...

Stiletto Run

Berlin's Stiletto Run, held last August 19th and sponsored by Glamour Magazine, was widely reported and commented all over the press and other media. Some articles said that it was the first high heels race ever, but it isn't true. Similar races were held in Amsterdam on March 9th, and in Moscow on last July 8th. There are rumors about other races planned in July in St. Petersburg and Novosibirsk, but there's no evidence about that.
Berlin edition was won by 25-year old psychology student Nadine Sonnabend, who taped rubber strips to the bottom of her shoes, beating the other 100 specially chosen perticipants on a 100 metres track, and winning the 10,000 € prize. The heels had to be (nearly) proper stilettos, at least 7 cm high and a maximum of 1.5 wide.

Dita Superstar

Lovely Dita Von Teese is getting more and more famous even in Italy. Fetish and burlesque icon, but formerly known only among few affectionate fans, she recently published the book "The Art of the Teese", and she's more and more often seen on "respectable" magazines or on TV, modeling on fashion catwalks (Moschino Cheap & Chic) or just attending to the shows with her husband, the cult pop-star Marilyn Manson. But she now seems to be getting more attention than he is. Or am I wrong?

The Red Stiletto

Things you find surfing the web. This Red Stiletto car was created by David Crow using a 1972 Honda CB 350 motor and running gear. The car took him four years to complete, and features an alloy tube frame with fiberglass shell and hand rubbed paint. The Red Stiletto was shown at the ArtCar Fest in San Jose, California, and reported by many web sites and blogs: here, here, here, here, here, here, here, and maybe more.

Fashion vs Fetish

The first picture, where the model (probably the beautiful Daria Werbowy) is sporting laced booties with evident fetish inspiration, was taken from Roberto Cavalli FW 2005 catwalk. The second picture...

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.