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Article: Heels that love women: there's nothing like a stiletto to make your legs look incredible--and your toes suffer. Cole Haan uses sports-shoe technology to take the weight off your feet.(getting dressed)(Brief article)
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- O, The Oprah Magazine
- Article date:
- October 1, 2006
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WE LOVE HIGH HEELS, really we do, but they can be torture chambers for the feet. When you walk in four-inch stilettos, your entire body weight is transferred onto the ball of your foot; standing for long periods puts pressure on the heel, explains Cole Haan creative director Gordon Thompson (above). So he pioneered a line of shoes and boots that compensate for the weight shift with cushioning: Pads of thin, superresilient, densely woven material--like mini-airbags for the feet--are built right into the sole (see sketch, left).
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* Thompson views design as a way to solve problems, not just to make things look pretty. Trained as an ...