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Just how it is o.k. to sometimes take the day off work, Charles Philip reminds us that it is also O.K. to take the day off from heels. Today was one of those days- but if only I was rocking a little calf-hair instead of canvas.
What a day. I lost the life of a favourite pair of sandals. Funnily enough, it is the pair I shared with you yesterday in my Five Favourites- the BCBG Generation ones that apparently I wore right out. Have you ever worn your shoes right to the point that the sole has split in half (horizontally)? I guess I’ll have to go buy some more pairs until I get them fixed. *le sigh*
ps- this is a pic of them in the brown/turquoise that I mentioned yesterday. Still on a hunt for another pair!!
I skipped out on doing my Five Favourites over the past few weeks as I allowed myself to be completely lured into the smouldering summertime weather. Had I posted I’m sure I would have had to list “sunburns” as one of the items and that would be quite an unattractive picture. However, this weekend, I’ve pulled my act together. Lets do this:
I picked up this pair of sandals 2 summers ago at my beloved Arnold Churgins in Calgary. I was never able to find a picture or the exact name of them (you don’t tae the box home at Churgins) until now. With some Google luck a day or two ago I was able to pin down the leather Jux sandal from BCBG Generation. They are such a great mix of an easy slip on sandal and sparkly pretty prettiness. Years later I still get compliments on them all the time. Perhaps I should hunt down a pair in brown with turquoise stones?
My current read right now. I saw this in Chapters last weekend and certainly judged it by its cover. Then I noticed the authors name Rosecrans Baldwin. Surely anyone named Rosecrans can write a good book, right? I’m sure they’d have to as they probably were teased alot on the playground with that name. Regardless, it’s a good read so far.
Its a little too early for full on Stampede breakfasts but chocolate chip pancakes…. flapjacks… are certainly an all times food. This was dinner for me Friday night.
My new favourite sunscreen. Clinique is a brand that I trust completely, I’ve never had a bad experience with it. With this hot weather we’ve been having sunscreen isn’t even a question. Very light on the skin, non oily and most importantly, does its job well. Just another Clinique product that lives up to its name really. Oh and, the travel size is awesome to carry in your purse.
If you know me, you probably know that I am Hello Kitty crazy. I am like my 6 year old girl students in that way. I’m not ashamed to wear my sparkly Hello Kitty stud earrings, and I have a collection of pink Hello Kitty pencils and notepads in my desk at work. I’m also willing to rock these nail stickers on my fingers and toes. That is what I am currently doing. French manicured nails with HK, butterflies and flowers on my ring fingers. And big toes. You should see them, really, everyone is jealous.
Thats all for Five Favourites this week. Enjoy what is left of your weekend, readers! xoxo
Yesterday I had once again mentioned the relationship between art and fashion. I am by no means an art expert, but I do recognize that it exists in places more than on the walls of apartments and behind velvet ropes in galleries. Art is in fashion, in beauty, architecture and everything else down to the composition of the human body itself. Thus, occasionally when an expert from one field, say architecture, plunges into fashion, I am generally led to jump out of my pants in excitement for what is to come. Think about it, there is a reason why I turn into complete mush whenever I see something by Tom Ford.
This morning however isn’t about the amazing Tom Ford, it is about Julian Hakes- an architect from London whose shoe design has gone viral over the past little while. Hakes’s Mojito shoe takes the meaning of simplicity in design to the next level. After looking at it, I kind of wonder, is it actually simple? It looks crazy and complicated like those weird pieces of art people pay way too much money for (but it is a shoe so I am o.k. with it).
Anyway, after much time on Google this morning I was able to dig up some extra text on the design, materials and inspiration by the designer herself. Check it out:
“One late summer night in the studio I was thinking about the design of shoes in general. I wondered why there was the need for a foot plate in shoes such as high heels. When I look at a foot print on sand it is very clear to see that the main force goes to the heel and ball… 
…So I set to exploring this question in a similar way to how I would design a bridge, examining the forces and looking at the most simple, elegant yet poetic expression of the forces at play within the materials used. With this approach I then set about wrapping my foot in tracing paper, then binding it up in masking tape and then drawings various geometries onto and over the form of my foot.
The next stage was rather dangerous as I had to cut the shape off my foot with a scalpel and not damage the pattern or my foot.
The design this produced is a single wrapped geometry which starts under the ball of the foot and then over the bridge, then sweeping down below the heel before then twisting back on itself to provide the support for the heel and ankle. This form felt light and airy on the foot. So we called it the ‘Mojito’ as it was rather like a twist of lime skin.
The material choice is simple: The shoe is a laminate with carbon fibre for the core which gives the shoe its spring and strength, leather on the foot side and rubber on the walking wearing side. 3 materials, each doing a specific job…”
So after all of that Hakes says she named the shoe after a twist of lime skin? Yeah right, she probably named it Mojito because she had to drink a few before and after using a scalpel to her foot repeatedly.
I like the pink. Go figure.
