2007, The Year of the Fetish Shoe!
Manolo says, here from the Daily Mail is that saucy trollop the Victoria “Posh” Beckham wearing the ridiculous and dangerous looking spikey shoes.
And thus, with this picture, the Manolo now officially declares 2007,
The Year of the Fetish Shoe.
Forget for now the beautiful, elegant, and stylish shoes, and wear only those shoes which emphatically say to the public “the wearer of these shoes may be hired to satisfy your more outré desires.”
Five and the half inch stiletto heels? The height of fashion!
Weird dominatrix boots? Wear them to the red carpet!
Bizarre and clunky pony-play platforms ? Hottest shoe of the Fall!
It is all too much and too ridiculous, but do not worry, dear friends of the Manolo, this fashion moment shall pass.








June 8th, 2007 at 11:27 am
just saw some very outre shoes at the vivienne westwood show in s.f. my, my!!fun to look at, disastrous to wear.
June 8th, 2007 at 11:43 am
Wasn’t there an old SNL skit about a horror film featuring a woman who wore spiky clothing and then killed people by hugging them? We appear to be moving in that direction.
June 8th, 2007 at 12:19 pm
Those shoes are ugly and I bet the cost a pretty penny. Did anyone happen to click on the link for the boots. Now those were weird looking also. How in the world do you walk in them?
June 8th, 2007 at 3:01 pm
I think it’s best to keep these away from Paula Abdul. I shudder to think of what will happen to her poor dog if she trips over it while wearing them.
June 8th, 2007 at 3:28 pm
Mrs. Beckham is using the spikes to deter your eyes from her bunion. Look closely at the foot she tucked in back. She’s trying to avoid bunion surgery…or Hush Puppies:
June 8th, 2007 at 4:08 pm
Mrs. Peperium took the words right out of my mouth.
Let’s declare 2008 to be the Year of the Bunion!
June 8th, 2007 at 4:50 pm
This picture of Victoria Beckham in the Evening Standard freesheet last night reminded me of . . .http://www.soundtrackcollector.com/images/movie/large/Thunderbirds_(TV).jpg
June 8th, 2007 at 5:41 pm
For crying out loud, can someone PLEASE get Victoria Beckham a sandwich!?
June 8th, 2007 at 8:59 pm
Do they borrow them, get them for free, or actually pay for them??
June 8th, 2007 at 9:23 pm
I hope someone is paying HER to wear them.
June 8th, 2007 at 10:30 pm
Haha! Perhaps the Manolo does not wish to know this, but I am in fact a dominatrix, and I can assure you that neither I nor any other dominant ladies I know would wear those ridiculous boots.
Stiletto heels hurt so much more when you step on someone’s sensitive spots with them, a rounded heel would be so ineffective. :)
June 9th, 2007 at 2:40 am
Why does she always look so angry?
June 9th, 2007 at 9:19 am
Hm…she does have bunions.
She also won’t be sitting the way my mother always suggested — with the legs crossed at the ankle, like a proper lady. She’d wind up with badly punctured ankles. And this is a woman who would probably develop severe anemia from a paper cut, due to an obvious lack of nourishment.
Sigh…she was actually pretty when she was with the Spice Girls. Posh! Drop the bleach (hair and tooth), step away from the tanning bed, and go eat a sandwich. You’ll look and feel so much better.
June 9th, 2007 at 12:26 pm
Perhaps she always looks angry, snarly, pouty because of that darned bunion…and fugly shoes like these.
Excellent vision Mrs Peperium!
June 10th, 2007 at 11:49 am
People please!!! 5.5 inch heels are awesome!!! You are complaining about thight boots on the red carpet? Are you nuts? Some of us love fetish shoes and clothes, keep your mouth shut and don’t screw it up for the rest of us!!!!!
June 10th, 2007 at 11:49 am
People please!!! 5.5 inch heels are awesome! You are complaining about thight boots on the red carpet? Are you nuts? Some of us love fetish shoes and clothes, keep your mouth shut and don’t screw it up for the rest of us!!
June 10th, 2007 at 12:38 pm
I am more than happy if you like wearing them. I just know my feet for the most part would hate them.
I liked that comment on Paula Abdul now those would hurt if she tripped over her dog wearing those.
June 11th, 2007 at 2:56 pm
Yikes! Cali hates them and thinks that they are so damn ugly. You know, Victoria could cause some very serious and damaging injury with those.
June 11th, 2007 at 5:57 pm
You have all, including the Manolo, missed the obvious practical application. Think of the small yappy dog that comes after you and fiercely nips at your ankles as you walk innocently by. Well, perhaps not so innocently if you’re wearing those suckers. Here Fido….
June 11th, 2007 at 8:00 pm
If anyone, that’s not a gothic super-hero, can pull off the spiked pumps it’s Victoria Beckham. I’m not sure what she’s trying to prove, but with that hair, it’s working for her. Nonethless, those pumps just seem like a liability to us.
-Shoeflyer
June 15th, 2007 at 10:42 am
The Tia Nieve wonders why the Posh doesn not have scratches on her ankles. Perhaps that is why the Posh looks so serious. Bunions and puncture wounds are not a fun combination. She looks like a cadaver.