Summer 2021 Shoe Trends Will Dominate This Year – Shoe Trends Clogs Heels Flip Flops
Ever tried accessorizing your accessory with more accessories? Chain necklaces have made a resurgence in recent years, and not just for jewelry purposes. Metal detailling on footwear was all over the runway last season. Next year, plan on attaching this shiny accoutrement to your favorite pair of heels. Think of it as another piece of gold or silver to add an extra cachet to your kicks. Runway examples of this include Victoria Beckham and Versace.
Cardi B’s Sheer Skeletal Dress & Studded Heels May Be the Wildest Thing You See Today
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Cardi B’s latest look is one you have to see to believe.
The “Bodak Yellow” rapper joined husband Offset on Friday for a shopping spree at Louis Vuitton in Beverly Hills, Calif., as she decided to break out one of her boldest looks to date. While Offset went for a casual collared top and suede trousers, Cardi B decided on a sheer dress from designer Pierre-Louis Auvray.
The piece featured a solid white top contrasted by a skeletal-like trim and a see-through tie-dye bodice and sleeves, revealing the rapper’s bikini-style bottoms and bralette underneath.
Cardi B and Offset head out for a shopping spree at Louis Vuitton in Beverly Hills, Calif., Jan. 22. CREDIT: iamKevinWong.com/MEGA
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A closer view of Cardi B and Offset’s footwear of choice. CREDIT: iamKevinWong.com/MEGA
As for footwear, Offset himself kept up his more casual vibe in Nike Air Force 1 sneakers — but Cardi B chose to make her wild look even bolder.
The “WAP” musician buckled up a set of studded stiletto sandals courtesy of Saint Laurent, set atop an on-trend square-toe heel. Titled the brand’s Amber silhouette, the now sold-out style measured over 4 inches in height and featured a unique wrap-around design across the ankle.
Cardi B and Offset head out for a shopping spree at Louis Vuitton in Beverly Hills, Calif., Jan. 22. CREDIT: iamKevinWong.com/MEGA
A closer view of Cardi B’s studded sandals. CREDIT: iamKevinWong.com/MEGA
Deemed the Style Influencer of the Year for the recent 2020 FN Achievement Awards, Cardi B herself is a master of both luxurious apparel and athleisure fashion. She joined Balenciaga as the face of its fall ’20 campaign in September, with ads displayed across the Louvre in Paris.
The “I Like It” rapper also continues to hold the ultimate hook-up for sportswear since partnering with Reebok in November 2018; together, Cardi B has helped the brand released a series of collections as she starred in a variety of campaigns and videos featuring embellished sneakers and vintage-inspired pieces before creating her own collection of footwear and apparel.
As if her efforts weren’t already enough, she additionally partnered with Fashion Nova to donate $1,000 every hour for a month as part of the “Fashion Nova Cares” initiative. The Grammy Award-winning artist also recently filed paperwork with the United States Patent and Trademark Office in September in an attempt to trademark the term “WAP” for a variety of items from footwear to apparel to even alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverages.
Looking for bold footwear like Cardi B herself? Try out these studded cherry red pairs for size.
CREDIT: Courtesy of Bloomingdale’s
To Buy: Kurt Geiger London Portia Sandals, $150.
CREDIT: Courtesy of DSW
To Buy: Mix No. 6 Laboni Pumps, $25 (was $50).
CREDIT: Courtesy of Farfetch
To Buy: Proenza Schouler Strappy Sandals, $236 (was $674).
Click through the gallery to find more of Cardi B’s wildest looks over the years.
Urs Fischer Defaces the Iconic Louis Vuitton Logo
For an ambitious new collaboration with Louis Vuitton, Swiss conceptual artist Urs Fischer, whose work is as cryptic as it is funny, has reinterpreted the fashion house’s iconic monogram pattern, slurring the sleek international symbol of sophistication and success into a kind of drippy drunkenness. The artist’s “memory sketches,” as he calls them, rendered Georges Vuitton’s sleek geometric web of flowers and initials with a childlike softness and an undulating intensity, dissolving the pattern in much the same way memory dissolves our experience into an echo. Available in two fantastic piebalds, one black and red and the other black and white, Fischer’s distorted design has been specially formatted to the unique contours of each garment in the capsule collection, which spans accessories, sporty ready-to-wear, and seven special-edition bags. In some of the pieces tuffetage, a delicate technique that floats swatches of velvet on top of each other, has been employed to emphasize the shifting iridescence of the pattern, giving it a three-dimensional psychedelia.
Louis Vuitton has been collaborating with contemporary artists, architects and designers since 1987. The collaborations really took off in 2001 when then artistic director Marc Jacobs commissioned Stephen Sprouse to tag the brand’s signature bags. In the years that followed, close collaborations with artists became central to Louis Vuitton’s identity, as the likes of Yayoi Kusama, Jeff Koons and Takashi Murakami, made lasting interventions in our perceptions of the brand. Yet somehow only very few have directly confronted the iconic “LV,” and even fewer have, like Fischer, used it like a material, stretching and dragging the decorative pattern almost beyond recognition.
This collaboration comes right on the heels of Fischer’s 2019 contribution to Louis Vuitton’s Artycapucines project, in which six artists were selected to reimagine the Capucines bag’s classic silhouette. As might be expected from Fischer, whose output over the last few decades is marked by unceasing experimentation, the two collaborations bear almost as little resemblance to his previous work as they do to each other, and this of course is what marks them as his own. A restless and clever iconoclast, Fischer left the Capucines’ body white but tethered hyperrealistic sculptures of produce, yes, produce—bananas, carrots, apples, strawberries—to its form with an improbably dainty brass chain. For his 2021 collection, Fischer has also produced a number of sculptures—not as part of the collection, but as attendants that will reside in the store’s window displays. The coterie of characters, a cat asleep in a banana skin, an avocado meeting an egg, a cat holding a lightbulb, and a bird carrying a peach, have the same fantastical deadpan as the horticultural protuberances in Fischer’s earlier LV collaboration.
Despite its formal and material diversity, almost all of Fischer’s work appears to be in some way fixated on or involved in entropy. His use of fruit and vegetables, either real or fake, is often understood by critics as a gesture towards decay or rot. In the 2021 collection, the Louis Vuitton emblems are seen in a state of decomposition. The collaboration affords Fischer a prominent platform to present his vision of the ways cultural images and artifacts travel through our memory and the strange things that happen along the way.