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Article: Material World
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- October 17, 2009
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When the show season ends each year, the weary fashion community
generally puts its collective throbbing feet up and counts the
blisters, sprains and bruises sustained by a month of mandatory heel
wearing. Yes, there's a bit - well, actually quite a lot - of free
champagne, celeb-spotting and some nice frocks in Paris, Milan etc,
but the shows can be an endurance test. Even the most committed
flats fanatic can buckle to peer pressure next to serried rows of
willowy, slender-ankled stiletto-wearers. In Milan, I felt like such
a garden gnome in my ballet pumps that I ended up desperately
dashing to Zara under cover of darkness (open until 11pm - I'm
emigrating!) for last-minute heels.
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