Get It Together: Footwear

A recent trip to the shoe department at Bloomingdale's struck fear into the hearts of the Aesthetes. There are a few things going horribly wrong these days. This year, Marc by Marc Jacobs has decided that providing the public with a normal fashionable boot is not enough. Apparently there was some sort of outcry for a boot that looked like a shoe with a phantom knee sock coming out of it? And more breaking news in the world of the unnecessary, can anyone tell us when rain boots became the new status item?


We thought the $200 rubber rain boot was the most ridiculous thing we'd ever seen until we met his cousin.


The $300 rain boot.

And finally, Nanette Lepore has teamed up with Ked's.
Thank god. Because we weren't sure where we were going to purchase our Avril Lavigne meets Anna Nicole Smith sequined high tops. Whew.