Gold!

Sergio Rossi's Filagree sandal. It's pretty luxurious and I'm a sucker for gold. Who doesn't want to be dripping in it? Says the Lioness. These guys are a little Roman-esque a little Grecian princess but a whole lot of IN YOUR FACE AND SHOW ME THE MONEY. That's soooooo money.

Photo from Sergio Rossi Website

Gentlemen Prefer Blondes

Tell me all about it! You know exactly what i'm thinking don't you? That particular sizzling hot pink dress. All those delicious diamonds and then of course Madonna wanted to do it and Kylie too. I think it's a dead ringer of a shoe. Oooo patent hot pink pearly metallic pumps, sux on that Barbie and The Rockers! You no longer serve my 80s ambitions. I'mma gonna get me a power suit and be as smart as Mads and our girl Kylie. 

Call me crazy but I wouldn't mind giving it a quick lick, hmmm lollies. Give me some of your sweet sweet candy...Sergio Rossi.

I'm a sucker for a folded edge. I love folded edges. You know what I love even more? Lining the same colour as the upper...Whoa, yeah that's right a folded edge that hides ugly pigskin lining even though the lining is in tone with the upper. Holy crap this bitch it out of control. Culture assholes, deal with it!

Sergio Rossi Goes Memphis.

I never use pictures that aren't my own...but this time it was an emergency. (Picture comes from the folks at Sergio Rossi).  

Sergio Rossi has gone Memphis.  And for once I'm not complaining.  For some of the younger folks let me explain a little.  It was an 80s design movement led by Ettore Sottsass. The inspiration came from 50s kitsch  mixed in with a futuristic pop art style. Seeing it for the first time as a relatively stupid 18 year old, it disturbed   me intensely by its ridiculous joie de vivre. I recalled 'oh yeah that movie, that Danny Devito and Bette Midler film, Ruthless People' and it seemed to make some sort of  seasick sense but only to convey how the nouveau riche have bad taste.  But now after 11 years it means something else to me.  It's a celebration of pure creativity, of coming together and doing something new, different, a development of design.  I finally understand what my 1st year Professors were talking about.  Design should not be shut up in that dark box to decay with the dust and mould, the same square, the same rectangle, oh no we can't produce a circle, God forbid we try something new, God forbid we come together to produce a new house of thought.  And that my fellow sacrificers is the difference between cultures.  In Italy one is allowed to ACTUALLY design.  In Italy you don't get laughed at for experimenting, trying, being creative, doing something DIFFERENT, damn just being fabulous here is a normality, one gets praised, called intelligent for being a designer or artist.

Creativity has nothing to do with money. You do it because it is a need, a release of a bubbling colourful energy deep inside the soul.  Some people create children and others create objects, wearable art, write books, create cakes.  For  goodness sake, people start things because it's normal to strike out, follow a dream.  Why aren't people doing their Oprah 'aha' moments?

Hmmmm ranty therapy is over, to the shoe.

Errrrrrr...This pump, is a symbol of a new wonderful expression of design art. Delicate and bold, strong and distinctive. Mixed textures, pattern and materials.  This baby already for me has caused such an internal design stir I don't think I need to say more.

Give her water, she's thirsty.

The model Diana Dondoe just looks thirsty for WATER!  I don't know folks this fashion video doesn't do anything for me.  Sure the furniture is cool, I think its make more sense though if she wipped out the old trust worthy wip and started wipping the bejesus outta some poor mixed up sod.  

This Mad Max/Waterworld leather business is cool, but only when it's designed and not stripped from a vagrant .  Yes, that's right it seems 'borrowed'.  And what is with the light flashing?  If there was going to be a case of flash flooding or some sort of  apocalptic scene...bloodly well get on with it or change the damned light bulb you stingy mingy!  It's a whatevs for me, I sigh a NON reverent sigh...bah.