We used to call these “kicky”
This is the Vernice Pop Pump by Miu Miu, not to be confused with the non-Pop Vernice, which is strictly monochrome and open at the toe. The Manolo, he explains it this way:
[B]uried beneath your professional and business-like exterior, lies the softly beating heart of the free-spirited romantic, the sort of girl who would wear these red Miu Miu Vernice Pop Pumps with Harris tweeds and the felt cloche. This look is inappropriate for your office, faintly ridiculous, and somewhat anachronistic, and yet also completely adorable, and likely to attract the admiring gaze of poetic men.
Which, of course, demands their inclusion here, even if Rachel hadn’t raved about them:
Maybe it’s a defect in my character…. But they speak to me. In fact, they cry out to me.
And sometimes, I suppose, you must heed the call, even if it’s collect. (Saks will collect $525 on each pair.)
Veronica said:
19 November 2007 @ 1:35 pm
Well, hell, I thought it was cute until I was $525.
Ouch.
Lynn said:
19 November 2007 @ 4:10 pm
I would wear them IF they weren’t $525(!!!) and if there was any chance that I would be able to walk in them without falling on my face and making a fool of myself.
Sarah said:
19 November 2007 @ 9:11 pm
Oh. My. God. I love those so much. Damn you, Dustbury, damn you!
I bet they wouldn’t be uncomfortable, either…what with the rounded toe and chunky heel.
Tatyana said:
20 November 2007 @ 8:37 pm
You remind me. I have to look up new shoes on Zappos.
Not like these, mind you. Beautiful shoes. Not clownish-pretentious-ugly-heel-fake ragbag shoes.
Maybe I’ll even post the picture when I do.
Tat said:
21 November 2007 @ 11:18 am
Done.