Models at Paris fashion week had to be lowered into Thom Browne’s creations, described as ‘harrowing’ by fashion observers
What happens when a dolphin, a football and a plinth get spliced together in the style of The Fly? At Paris fashion week the conceptual American designer Thom Browne answered the question no one had thought to ask with four pairs of vertiginous “pedestal shoes” in the shape of a leaping dolphin, stabilised by glossy black waves.
Models required assistance to lower themselves into the surreal creations, and stood motionless throughout the show, granting new meaning to the expression “footlocker”. The fashion publication WWD reported that the heels were so “harrowing” one model had to extricate herself from them before the show finished.
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