The Beautiful Foot
Manolo says, many of the Manolo’s internet friends have been emailing him the link to this story.
It is 8 o’clock on a serene blue morning in Beverly Hills and Dr Ali Sadrieh, a podiatrist, has just performed a 45-minute operation on a client, cutting a section of bone out of her toe to shorten it. She was awake during surgery, watching a film; next week Sadrieh will do the same thing to the second toe on the other foot. There was nothing medically wrong with the toes, but his patient didn’t like the way they protruded over the lip of her high-heeled Manolo Blahniks.
Welcome to the wilder shores of La-La Land, where cosmetic surgery has finally travelled the full length of the female form. […]
Feet are the new frontier: our legs are all waxed and tanned now, but look where they end: in a scrubland of hard heels, yellowing nails, bumps, lumps and toe hair. And everything is on show: the ascendancy of the shoe designer has strapped us into whip-thin sandals and vertiginous heels, at once revealing our imperfections and aggravating them: is that an incipient bunion there? A touch of toe-besity? In America the high priests of podiatry are offering salvation.
Frankly, the Manolo doubts the widespread popularity of this trend, simply because of the appearance of this B-List celebrity foot.
The bunion in these fetish shoes belongs to that dreary spotlight hound, the Posh Spice.
You may be assured that if she–the connoisseur of plastic surgery–has not yet had the feet operated upon it is because she has not yet thought it fashionable.
Of course, this is not to say that one should not worry about the foot beauty, only that there are less drastic measures to beautify the foot, measures which stop short of surgery.
June 18th, 2007 at 5:08 pm
Perhaps, and I’m justing thinking out of the box here, if your toes hang over the lip of your shoes, you should try wearing a larger size?
Is that the craziest idea you have ever heard in your entire life?
June 18th, 2007 at 10:59 pm
… don’t they say that the second toe being longer than the big toe is a sign of intelligence? Obviously that is not the case here. I would love to see Posh in the matching surgery shoes. It might take her vanity down a notch.
June 19th, 2007 at 12:35 am
How can she wear shoes like that with a bunion and not collapse in pain?
June 19th, 2007 at 8:35 am
I was reading this piece, thinking “But if you have crappy-looking feet, there are things you can do to improve them that doesn’t involve surgery”. And then I read your last sentence… We agree !
June 19th, 2007 at 8:37 am
Actually, these are not the worst I’ve seen. TMZ.com has a spread on “extremities” which leads one to believe that there are many many women out there in the show business world whose abilities to smile through excruciating pain must verge on the magical. Janice Dickerson’s feet merited multiple viewings as I recall, and there are shots of bunions and extreme cases of hammer toes which reminds one of the Manolo’s piece on Chinese foot binding. This “cutting off pieces of oneself which inconveniently ruin the fashion line” is not a new thing: in the 19th Century, supposedly women (obviously women with money to spend on this) seeking a more fashionable waist conformation would have surgeons remove their bottom two ribs so that they could then lace their corsets more tightly. Considering the lack of antibiotics, anesthetics and other features of modern surgery, I consider THAT to be the height of madness, though recent news features about young ladies who are Type 1 diabetic using the technique of NOT taking their insulin in order to lose weight to be right up there.
June 19th, 2007 at 12:58 pm
My belief is if a shoe designer wants women to buy their shoes, they should be attactive and made to fit without pain. Trimming of body parts to accomodate fashion is insane. If a larger size dosen’t work, buy a shoe that actually fits a human foot.
I recently ordered a pair of Italian heels ,(almost 4″ high) by Sesto Meucci that look sexy and are actually comfortable enough to dance in and have a well cushioned insole. I bought them in a “c” width.
People ask me “Don’t they hurt?”
June 19th, 2007 at 4:09 pm
Perhaps, and I’m justing thinking out of the box here, if your toes hang over the lip of your shoes, you should try wearing a larger size?
I finally had my feet professionally sized and have switched to wearing only shoes in my wide width (D). The increased comfort has been remarkable, but I suppose it’s not “fashionable” to pass up those narrow little pointy-toed shoes. Bah. Thank goodness for Zappos and their “wide widths” search!
June 19th, 2007 at 6:13 pm
Why does this remind me of Cinderella’s stepsisters and how they cut their feet to be able to wear the glass slipper?
June 25th, 2007 at 12:42 am
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