Whats walking the streets.

Shoes glorious shoes! They say that you can tell a lot about a person simply by looking at their shoes. We all need them, we all wear them, but what’s stepping out onto the catwalk and what’s stomping our streets?

Over the past few season floating onto the catwalk time and time again is the skyscraper platform. It has been a favourite with designers and recently been taken to extreme levels. Alexander McQueen spring/summer 2010 collection made the headlines for his extraordinary alienating shoes. They simply are out of this world, so much so that their impractical nature means not street smart. McQueen was not alone in show stopping footwear; John Galliano showcased a romantic sky high platform, a towering pearl heel combined with a pearl ankle charm. Lace and silk bows made for a fairy tail surprise. On the other side of the fence Kirkwood went for a more industrial architectural style and Chanel brought back the classic wooden soled clog. One thing is for sure the shoes weren’t boring.

Recently there has been a shift in shoe heights. Joining these towering platforms on the runway is a series of flats and low wedges. Louis Vuitton went nuts with, well, indescribable shoes while Calvin Klein went for minimalistic sandals and from Chloe we saw buckles. Marc Jacobs even went for an oriental style low platform sandal.

With so many fabulous shoes from fly high platforms to low wedges and flats what can be found treading our streets? Black, black, black, oh and some brown thrown in for good measure. Boring, dull and practical are the words best used to describe what we are stepping out in. Is it the unpredictable weather that is deterring us from stepping out in our finest footwear? Is our want for comfort over ruling our fashion conscious minds? It seems madness with such inspiring footwear on the catwalk that there is nothing on the streets but Uggs, trainers and simple black boots.

There was a glimmer of hope. A fabulous pair of mukluks caught my eye, the fashion hungry owner of such boots had to order them from aboard but it was well worth it. Black boots with studded straps stood out in the sea of blackness with there rock edge. But the all time favourite has to be a pair of black and white polka dot platform shoes with a seventies disco fever style. They were simply so different they were great.