Sensuous, sexy, sporty. The new collection of MARC focuses on quality, sensuousness and naturalness. Opposites attract: Tradition and craft harmonise with modernity and innovation. Based on its typical individuality, MARC interprets the fashion themes of the autumn/winter season. And these are the characteristics of MARC’s authentic style: unobtrusive nebulous colours, high-quality soft materials, perfect fits and a great number of hand-made details.
After this winter's floods, and the serious stuff being debated at the Copenhagen summit on Climate Change, it seems frivolous to get excited about waterproof footwear. But, life goes on, and there is no doubt that our feet are going to get wetter - especially for people who live in especially-damp places like west Wales, for instance (Like me, for instance.) And, however many pretty & practical pairs of wellies there are on the shelves these days, you can't spend your entire life in rubber.
When the organisers of last year’s Trade Unions Congress set the conference agenda for Liverpool they could never have envisaged the media attention generated by the debate which was designed to discuss the merits, ethics and consequences to their physical well being of women who are expected to wear high heels in the workplace.
The debate not only gained a massive number of column inches with accompanying images in both the broad sheets and tabloids but also received saturation coverage on national TV and radio. Who said that the footwear industry was at the bottom of the pile when it comes to the media spotlight?
Four trends have been identified for women's footwear for Spring-Summer 2010. They all share strong attention to all that is natural, in colours, decorations, shapes and materials.
Technical treatments have not been excluded however, and feature alongside naturals, often in the same shoe, with the result that matt and touches of shine often appear side by side, or neutrals with fluo inserts.
This may all sound a bit saucy, but the world no longer suffers from the lament of transvestite, Lola, in the 2005 film Kinky Boots, that there was insufficient fetish footwear on the market. These days, British companies, such as Nitelife Footwear can supply a plethora of Oh La! La! fetish footwear to satisfy all tastes.
Some of the more erotic fetish footwear heels and platform soles deliver an altitude that could cause vertigo. You'd have to be a bit po-faced not to find some of the fetish footwear fun. However, supplying footwear to lap-dancers, strippers, clubbers and the rest, is a lucrative business.
