Stilettos are the shoes most charged with multiple different layers of meaning. From their birth from a nameless Florentine artisan for Catherine de Medici so she could make a stunning entrance into French court when she married her husband Henry II, to the story of the Little Mermaid, to the...

You and I both know the dirty little secret behind that fantabulous pair of spring shoes you bought. They were glittering in the store, calling out to you, they were maybe royal blue patent with metallic piping, or five-inch wedge espadrille platform slingbacks that created a exceptionally towering silhouette, or...

Last night, at Barneys, Kate Moss unveiled her new TopShop collection stateside. From her infamous The Face magazine cover, through high profile romances with Johnny Depp, and her present on-again, off-again union with Pete Doherty, various hubbubs concerning her weight and the "waif" look, and her rise as a...