Party Shoes Worth Hoarding Edit
Exotic Styles for the Fashion Hunt

Women and shoes, diamonds, and purses. Who knows why, but they just all meld together into one luxury consuming organism. Women hoard shoes. I think it is like how guys hang animal heads on their walls. Shoes are the trophy mounted from the hunt. Wear them once and preserve them in a pile or neatly in a shoe room, shoes are a phenomenon among women that refuses to die down. Shown here are representative samples from top designers—fashion gurus like Christian Lacroix, Dior, Emporio Armani, Valentino, Kenzo and Emilio Pucci.