Its official the footwear choice of the 1990s – the clog – is making a comeback. According to Vogue “If there’s one investment to make on the footwear front for summer, it’s clogs.”
They say that these ladies shoes were spotted all over the catwalks. At Channel’s Spring/Summer show 2010 models were seen in healed and bejeweled clogs as they walked down the runway.
Louis Vuitton’s Marc Jacobs opted for tasselled and fuzzy clogs for their Spring/Summer show 2010. According to Dolly Jones writing in Vogue there models at the show “were truly the geeky kids at school whose fuzzy hair and tasselled clogs or sandals the cool kids didn’t care for – bows stuck at random on the hair and cutesy checked shorts with matching jackets further dispelling any claim to street cred.”
While at Brown’s the magazine claims that at Browns the ladies shoe style were “just in – and smothered in print.”
And it’s not just Vogue who are singing the praises of the ladies show- Elle have also claimed they are the new shoe trend claiming that “clogs are the only shoe to be seen in this season.”
And the trend of these designer shoes has been seen on the highstreet too – Urban Outfitters or Topshop are offering a plain and simple ladies show which according to Vogue are “nonetheless chic – versions.” While, Kurt Geiger provides a halfway house with its chained up peep toe styles.
Meanwhile, fashionista Alexa Chung was spotted wearing clogs at the Channel show in Paris back in January. And according to Emma Sells at Elle if they’re good enough for Alexa they’re good enough for us mere mortals.
“You may have your reservations but Alexa Chung has convinced us not only that they can, in fact, look cool and stylish but that we want to grab a pair for ourselves,” she said”.
Vogue even put the style icon in Channel clogs – brown leather mules, sides stamped with glossy brass studs and uppers licked with brick-thick wooden soles – on the front cover of the March issue of the magazine. And if it’s good enough for Alex…