shoe lust strikes again

well.....
I am certainly supporting
the new shoe galleries
I fell head over heels in love
with these beauties this week
By Marni, who else,
dam them
for making such
temptingly gorgeous footwear
it seems a crime not to buy them and make them mine
immediately
My shoe lust demands instant gratification 

more , more, more, shoes, shoes, shoes..........

The clay and steel shoe gallery. Steel cabinets with cracked clay shelves and
red velvet cinema seats, I think this is my fav space so far.

cool seats huh?

A subtle detail to the perimeter shelving, looks soft but it is as hard as steel

Cracked clay surfaces allow the shoes to shine

 This room has some cool brands like Acne and Belstaff and some crap brands. If you ever  see me in a pair of Stuart Weitzman shoes, even when I am 85, shoot me!

mmmm, be still my beating heart.... it is Acne

this is another room that makes some shit shoes look great,
 except some are sooo shit, it doesn't quite stretch to the likes of Stuart Weitzman.

More new shoe glory...the story continues

the oak room - the room that makes shit shoes look great

Having said that, not all the shoes in this room are shit. Afterall only yesterday, I found myself looking rather longingly at a pair of Nicole Fahri brothel creepers

Heartwarming, comforting, warm and reassuringly solid

The use of old shoe lasts is a genius touch, referencing as it does, the good old days of qualty workmanship, bespoke hand crafted shoes, cobblers that cared. It is an over the shoulder glance at the the glorious handmade shoe days of the past.

Through the space are placed some achingly large solid oak blocks and pewter has been poured into every crack in the wood. It is a heartwarming combination of matierials.

new shoes glory

The new shoe galleries at Selfridges have opened and as the Telegraph said, cut up your credit cards and if you remotely have a shoe thing, do not come near them!

There will be 6 rooms of shoes, glorious gravity defying, wallet stretching, credit card banning, shoes.

I have a feeling that this is just the start of many posts about these spaces....I'm sure there will be heaps more posts to follow this one. Afterall this post only covers one of the 6 gallery spaces.

these spaces make all the shoes within them, drool worthy objects of lust

which do you worship more, the painted white Anne Demeulemeester high top trainers or the vein defying alabaster stone plinth they sit on?

wait until this opens.....the holy grail (for those that way inclined, I'm more a Margielaist myself) 

Tactile in all details, this room has the palest peachy skin soft suede cladding the walls and till

look at that glowing translucent alabaster, which do you yearn to touch and caress more, the shoes they hold or the glorious cold pale stone