Look Boutiques Hearts Nicholas Kirkwood

Let's face it women love shoes. Shoes never question how skinny or heavy you may be. While one might not be able to wear risque outfit's it's safe to say that an amazing pair of shoes always fit! Look Boutique's top choice for S/S 2008 is Nicholas Kirkwood. Our Creative Director Carolina Amaris says it best " If Salvador Dali was still around and decided to make shoes these would be it". Kirkwood studied fine art at Central Saint Martins and shoe making at the esteemed Cordwainers cobbler program before starting his own shoe collection out of his home. His characteristically dark and feminine aesthetic from the outset attracted the admiration of style icons and fashion industry professionals. From the inimitable songstress Grace Jones, Visionaire's Cecilia Dean and Posh Spice aka Victoria Beckham, femmes of substance and style are avid fans. But it's not just, "Women with presence and intellect," (his desired audience) that are jumping on his bandwagon – luminary photographer and art director Jean Paul Goude is one of many to feature his brazenly sculptural heels in a recent fashion shoot, while the house of Chloe got in on the action with Kirkwood designing their Autumn 07 pre-collection. From vertiginous heels to platform wedges, his designs take direction from bygone eras, resurrecting noir mystique with a decidedly modern slant. With a fusion of unexpected materials including lizard, stingray, watersnake, python and buffalo horn alongside severe, architecturally inspired contours. The first collection, released in 2005, was more object d'art than wearable (none of the shoes were for sale), but nonetheless catapulted him to cult stardom, winning him the coveted Conde Nast Footwear Emerging Talent award of 2005. Kirkwood followed with a wearable range of dramatically angular heels sans decoration– his trademark style, that debuted on the shelves of exclusive retailers Harrods, Browns Focus, Selfridges, Dover Street Market and Bergdorf Goodman, as well as on the pages of international style bibles British and Italian Vogue, The New York Times and I.D
Magazine. "Decorating for the sake of decorating is a really old-fashioned notion, I'm more about form and function. Some of my heels look quite aggressive, but they are always feminine – not girly, you won't find any bows or diamonds." Log on to www.Look-Boutique.com to check out our Selection of Nicholas Kirkwood Shoes.


(Special Thanks to Elle U.K. and Oyster Magazine)