Underheelers: the man heels are in fashion

06.09.2006
All more designers carry themselves and produce a masculine shoe on a high platform and heels.

The most revolutionary from them is Rui Leonardes. Because he creates the real high-heeled shoe. In opinion of designer, such kind of shoe is more sexual and makes masculine gait more collected one. His collections include handwork shoes, made of a skin, Denym, tweed, wool and bright nylon.

Rui Leonardes left native Portugal in 17 and moved to Amsterdam for studying design. Later lived in Paris and worked as the assistant of Hedi Slimane, co-operated with Nina Ricci Homme, and then and with Hose Levy. Wishing to develop more, Leonardes moves to London to understand the secrets of shoe trade and designer business in Royal College of Arts. His final collection did a lot of noise, even Vogue wrote about it. But Leonardes paid on himself attention not by epatage, he always believed that his main task is to combine womanish and masculine beginning because only this allows to attain harmony.

In this season Rick Owens also offers to the men high-heeled boots, but in a more crude variant. Unlike Leonardes’s sharp-nosed shoes boots by Owens has a round nose thick heel and original pulled about. A designer wearing such himself.

Brands Iceberg and Dolce & Gabbana are also offers you to lift yourself a little above the earth. And Fendi, yielding tendencies, let out high masculine boots in more elegant variant. Even when the most authoritative provocateur Jean Paul Gautier resorted to the masculine shoe on a high platform in collection of season spring/summer 2007 years, the future at a trend exists.