Marc Jacobs

One of the worlds best known contemporary fashion designers, Marc Jacobs was born into a Jewish family in New York, U.S.A. in 1963. He lived with his grandmother for a time as a teenager and credits her with being “the biggest influence in life”.

As a fifteen year old he worked in the stockroom for trendy boutique Charivari and it was here he was allowed to design a range of knitwear for the store. He attended the New York High School of Art and Design and won a host of prestigious awards graduating in 1981. Jacobs continued his studies at Parsons School of Design where he won some of the schools highest honours including Design Student of the Year.

In 1986 backed by Onward Kashiyama USA Inc. Jacobs designed his first collection bearing the Marc Jacobs label, the following year he became the youngest ever designer to be awarded the fashion industries highest accolade, The Perry Ellis Award for New Fashion Talent.

Jacobs famous “Grunge” collection for Perry Ellis in 1993 brought him to the forefront of the fashion industry, loved by the critics, but disliked by the company, it led to Jacobs leaving. The designer has not been afraid of bucking the trend in fashion design, producing contemporary clothes that people want to wear. His ad campaigns have featured the rich and famous such as Victoria Beckham, Winona Ryder and Charlotte Rampling to name just a few. Naomi Campbell and Linda Evangelista have modelled his clothes for free. In 1994 he produced his first full menswear collection.

Louis Vuitton appointed Jacobs as their Creative Director in 1997 when he created their first ready-to-wear line, he also works on their shoes, handbags and luxury accessories and in 1999 was named Accessory Designer of the Year by the Council of Fashion Designers of America.

The Marc Jacobs Home Collection was launched in 2003 and began as a limited line of luxury accessories that has since grown to include crystal, silver, and cashmere pillows and is sold exclusively at Jacobs boutique shops. Marc Jacobs now has stores across the world including Paris, London, Madrid, New York, San Francisco, Boston USA and numerous outlets across Japan, China and the Middle East. In recent years he has introduced a range of perfumes and watches which have been extremely successful.

In 2007 Jacobs was named in ‘OUT’ magazines list of the 50 Most Powerful Gay Men and Women in America and controversially in 2009 produced a t shirt demanding the legalization of gay marriage. In 2010 he was included in Time magazine’s list of the 100 Most Influential People in the World.

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Christian Louboutin

One of the most famous and prestigious shoe designers in the world, Louboutin was born in 1963 and brought up in Paris. His father was a carpenter and somewhat surprisingly he has said his mother and four sisters were not fans of high heels.

Louboutin is credited with re-inventing the stiletto and bringing it back into fashion. In 1992 he started to give his designs the iconic Red Sole, now so well known, after painting red nail polish on a pair of shoes he felt “lacked energy”.

Kate Moss, Sarah Jessica Parker and Victoria Beckham have all worn his designs in fact there are very few celebs or well known ladies who don’t own a pair of his glamourous shoes and they have even featured in the first ‘Sex @ The City’ film, being the object of desire for the shoe obsessed heroine Carrie Bradshaw. Oprah Winfrey devoted a whole show to her love affair with his designs, however the designer himself said he was ill and could not appear.

Louboutin’s shoes have appeared on the catwalk for fashion designers such as Alexander McQueen, John Paul Gaultier and Lanvin. In a partnership with toy manufacturers Mattel he has designed shoes for ‘Barbie’ after redesigning her ankle which he thought was not ‘shapely’ enough.

His luxury shoes range from a simple court shoe at around the 500 dollar mark to designs costing thousands of dollars. He has said he is not really interested in ‘comfortable’ shoes and his designs are more for men than women!

Away from the fashion industry Louboutin’s interests include landscaping, trapeze [he keeps one at home] and occasionally dancing and he has appeared in a tap dancing sequence in a video for an internet fashion company.

Recently Louboutin has sued two rival shoe designers, Yves Saint Laurent for alleged trademark infringement of his Red Sole which has been trademarked since 2008. Y.S.L. have been selling their shoes in Saks Fifth Avenue and Bergdorf Goodman alongside Louboutin’s designs and he is claiming damages of at least $1 million and also the Brazilian label Carmen Steffens who produce a number of coloured sole designs and claim they were selling them long before Louboutin’s trademark was in place.

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New Look 50% OFF

Checkout the latest Killer Deals from New Look this week! We have a fantastic offer this Wednesday: Get Free Standard Worldwide Delivery All Day Wednesday 20th April 2011! And don’t forget the New Look Mid Season Sale is now on – With up to 50% off.

There’s also Free Standard Worldwide Delivery All Wednesday 20th April 2011!!

New Look have one of the most incredible ranges of shoes on the high street and are always quite a bargain so to get an additional 50% means you could be picking up a pair of hot heels for next to nothing. If you want to see the complete range of shoes on offer just click here!

There’s no code required so you can just shop to your hearts content!!

Barratts 20% OFF Everything!

Looking for a summer bargain? Well look no further because from April 19th 2011 Barratts are giving 20% off absolutely everything in their online store so if you want to make the most of the good weather and throw on something brighter and more fun then the winter boots then here’s your chance!

You’ll need a code at checkout to get the discount and here it is: Code – BIGEVENT . But don’t wait too long to take advantage because the sale ends on April 26th. And if for some very strange reason you’ve never heard of Barratts then rest assured that their range of footsie goodies is so vast that you’ll be spoilt for choose.

With everything from fuzzy slippers to summer flip flops, canvas to ballet pumps, high heels, low heels, platforms and wedges, if it’s a shoe then they probably have it!

In fact, why not check out their full range just by clicking here!

Jimmy Choo

The exclusive shoe maker and fashion designer was born in Penang, Malaysia. He came from a family of shoemakers and Jimmy made his first pair of shoes at the tender age of eleven. Choo graduated from Cordwainers Technical College [now part of London College of Fashion] in Hackney, London in 1983. During this time he has said he worked part time in restaurants and as a cleaner in a shoe factory to finance his education.

In 1986 he rented a unit in an old ex hospital building in Hackney as a workshop and began producing his hand made shoes, selling to ultra fasionable women who could afford his designs. His craftmanship and design soon attracted the attention of the fashion world and in 1988 his shoes were featured in a record eight pages of Vogue magazine giving him international exposure and his client list exploded to epic proportions. The late Diana, Princess of Wales was extremely fond of his designs as were numerous celebs including Beyonce, which certainly helped to boost their popularity.

Choo co-founded Jimmy Choo Ltd. in 1996 with Tamara Mellon who was an accessories editor with British Vogue. The new range was manufactured in Italy and sold in high end department stores such as Neiman Marcus and Bergdorf Goodman. Having sold his 50% stake of the company in 2001 he has since developed the Jimmy Choo Couture line and the Jimmy Choo Ready To Wear collection and now includes accessories such as handbags, scarves and perfume.

Jimmy Choo has been recognised with a number of awards from his home country of Malaysia and has been awarded an O.B.E. in the U.K. for Services to the Shoe and Fashion industry, an Honorary Doctorate in Art, by De Montfort University Leicester for his contribution to their Footwear Design degree and a fellowship from the University of Arts, London, conferring him with the title Professor.

More recently Choo has founded a shoe making institute in Malaysia and hopes to inspire a new generation of shoe and fashion designers.

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25% Off La Redoute

They love shoes at La Redoute and to make their point they’re offering you a whopping 30% of selected shoes PLUS a further 25% the rest of your order! That adds up to one incredible offer especially when you go and look at their full range of shoes.

Because La Redoute are only online they have an excellent returns policy so don’t worry, if the shoes don’t fit then they’ll take them back no problems and it’s FREE.

There’s a code for the offer so take note it is: 5067 and you put it in at the checkout to get your discount. So take advantage of the fantastic range of on-trend shoes such as wedges, floral patterns and brightly coloured shoes which will all be in for Summer.

For the full range of La Redoute shoes just click here…

Schuh FREE UK Delivery

Looking for a tempting online shoe bargain? How about free UK delivery on all Schuh products over £14.95! This is pretty amazing as usually stores can put a much higher purchase price limit before offering free delivery so this is a welcome offer from one of the UK’s leading shoe retailers!!

And there’s so much to choose from Schuh that you’ll be absolutely spoiled for choice, plus they have a whole new range of stock just in including some fantastic wedges and summer sandals as well as very trendy flats for those of you who want to give your poor tootsies a break from the heels.

The free UK delivery offer is automatically applied at checkout so no need for codes this time and if you fancy seeing the full range on offer then just click here….

Espadrilles 2 for £10

With the weather picking up nicely in time for Spring and Summer, the heavy boots can be consigned to the back of the wardrobe because it’s time for a new, brighter look and what better way to freshen up your shoe rack than with new Look’s fantastic offer of 2 for £10 on their espadrilles!

There are 7 different colours on offer – white, black, navy, aqua, red, pink and peach so there’s definitely something there to give an old outfit a new pep.

And if that wasn’t enough, they’re still running their 20% Off Footwear Essentials deal so pick up a bargain and give your feet a treat. Just click here to see what’s on offer…

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Gladiators Still Here

What everybody thought would just be a one-season-wonder, has turned out to be a never ending epidemic of Gladiator styled shoes, sandals, boots etc… You name the footwear, someone somewhere has turned it into a gladiator shoe!

Of course, that’s not to say that I don’t love them, but mostly in summer which is why I’ve decided to go trawling through the shops again to find out who’s got a whole new range in stock…

For as little as £12 you could be stepping out in a pretty white pair from Dorothy Perkins, right the way through to the high end designers who are still incorporating the style in their latest collections.

For the full Gladiator range just click here!

Whats New For Summer ’11

Spring is in the air and there’s going to be one in your step too because trends this season suggest a rather sensible approach to to footwear in the form of ‘Flatforms’! It’s a new one for me but apparently they are ‘like a platform but without the incline’ so no crippling ankles for us then, hurrah!

Wedges are also back with a bang – but really, do they ever go out of style?? Team them up with safari-inspired items, including jackets, shirt dresses and city cargo shorts and you’re ready to rock and roll…

All of the highstreet shops in our store are selling a crazy range of wedges, sandals and platforms so to check them out just click here…

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