Shoe Porn

My friend in all things style, Karen, gave me this gorgeous book, Blahnik by Boman: Shoes, Photographs and Conversations.  It's a fun take on the shoe, an object that is so fetishsized anyway, then being a Manolo shoe it's a double whammy of sexy suggestiveness. Boman creatively poses the shoes in rich, elegant scenes, each reflective of the shoe's individual style; a leaf and berry-covered strappy sandal finds itself hanging in a fruit tree, a silver-grommeted number cozies up to an adorable fluffy dog wearing a matching collar. Not really pornography, but the photographs are beautiful and playful and remind me of old school "girly pictures." Here's a sampling of a few of the photos below.

My own interpretation of an Eric Boman and Manolo photograph. This is my second pair of Manolo's that Matt gave me about twelve years ago. This feathered beauty is perched on one of Matt's sculptures titled "Lover's Leap". Apropos, no?