These Alexander McQueen Alien Shoes Actually Sell!
 Ok. So Lady Gaga was the first celebrity to wear one of these lobster-claws. It turned out, however, that Alexander McQueen had been inundated with calls from women who want to own a pair of these crazy footwear even before Lady Gaga debuted it on her video (below). It all started after the live web streaming of the recent Alexander McQueen's catwalk show.
These lobster-claws are actually called Alien shoes. They are 10 inches high and they are part of the designer's spring 2010 collection. Apparently, they are on the current must-have list of shoe freaks and some even want to buy them as "art pieces."
"We've had lots of people showing great interest in the show's shoes... The process used to create the Alien shoes is very innovative and protected by copyright," says a McQueen spokesperson.
While the Alien shoes are designed for the rich, famous, and fashion-forward (and crazy), the label is auctioning off the sample pairs that appeared on the catwalk for charity:
"We are considering organizing a charity auction as the best way to offer them to the public."Labels: Alexander McQueen, fashion accessory, heels, shoes
Why Do Women Wear These Crazy High Heels?
The Heelstory
If you think high heels were invented for women, you should know that they actually started with men.
According to the curator of the Bata Shoe Museum in Toronto, shoes with a pointed heel and a sloping pitch were first worn by men as riding boots in 9th-century Persia.
During the Renaissance period, women wore high platforms stacked heavily at the toe called chopines. They were said to rise about eight inches high and were worn in the sheer delight of displaying family wealth. These chopines later became a trend to prostitutes in Florence and Sicily.
In the 1500s, the high-heeled men's riding boot was revived by Queen Elizabeth who "acted" as a man. In the early 1700s, shorter heels started to become popular with women. By the time of the Second World War, heels started soaring higher with the discovery of using metal rods on shoes to maintain a strong and narrow structure.
Today, heels just keep on evolving as they get higher and more pointed or rounded, according to the crazy trend that echoed their history of glamour, power, oppression, sexiness, and contradiction to accepted morality.
So much was our love for heels so that designers are forever coming up with bold ideas to create high heels that would especially help women feel sexy and liberated.
Lookie at these crazy Alexander McQueen's 10-inches heels, the highest footwear to strut down the Paris runway this season:
With women getting crazy over the latest high heels, it's becoming common to hear shoe designers fighting over trademark issues.
Alexander McQueen is suing Steve Madden for allegedly copying this Faithful bootie:
Women just love to wear shoes that are impossibly high, uncomfortable, difficult, and dangerous to walk in and an economic professor provides this answer: "Taller people earn more, for example, and command greater attention in social settings. And hence the attraction of high heels."
Heels injure our feet, knees, and back but we still wear them. We simply love the way they look and we love to play with our height (and our character) every now and then.
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Ok. So Lady Gaga was the first celebrity to wear one of these lobster-claws. It turned out, however, that Alexander McQueen had been inundated with calls from women who want to own a pair of these crazy footwear even before Lady Gaga debuted it on her video (below). It all started after the live web streaming of the recent Alexander McQueen's catwalk show.
