I have to stop living on the edge like this. Buying these shoes last week--straight from the office on my last night of work (ie. HIGH), with the knowledge that they were the last pair, 60% off, and that I had 15 minutes to decide before Barneys closed their doors--it was kind of like getting bombed in Vegas the night you bust out of jail, getting hitched to some red-lipsticked seductress in a drive-through chapel and CROSSING YOUR FINGERS that she’ll be the woman you thought she was in the morning. Or umm, a woman at all. OH BUYER’S REMORSE, HOW I HATE THEE.
Of course, you never think of that at the time. No, at the time, you call your friends and whisper, "Guess who's in my shopping bag? LANVIN, baby!" You get high and have a photo shoot!
I’m thinking RED VELVET! I’m thinking white hotel bed! Flash photography! Very seedy, very Terry Richardson! Very Juergen Teller-for-Marc Jacobs!
I coughed myself awake the next morning, mascara under my eyes and rice plastered to my hot cheek, and EGAD, what had I done! I opened one eye with a squint and there were the Lanvin, looking all scrumptious and timeless in the dappled sunlight (but still sexy, with the perfect low heel and, indecent as it may be to admit, serious toe cleavage), so I felt like I’d scored Marilyn Monroe while wearing beer goggles.
I’m so bad, people. So bad.
Um...these shoes (if shoes is the right word, because well "shoe" doesn't really quite cut it as far as I am concerned) are absolutely ADORABLE-HOT. I would have to buy them and then create an occasion around wearing them. That's all.
Posted by: Kassi | 19 January 2006 at 09:22 PM
oh delicious, sinful and surely something to later NOT regret!! love it.
Posted by: Jenny Vorwaller | 19 January 2006 at 09:44 PM
Sexy!
Now, Coquette, I know you're going to want to hit me on the head for saying this, but my initial impression was "Dorothy's Ruby Red Slippers." Is that a fashion statement no-no?
Posted by: Neil | 19 January 2006 at 09:55 PM
If Dorothy had had those, she would have never gone back to Kansas.
*wolf whistle*
Posted by: Sheryl | 19 January 2006 at 09:57 PM
gorgeous color!
Posted by: gleek | 19 January 2006 at 10:15 PM
Oh you trollop!
Are they not divine!?
Posted by: Elizabeth | 19 January 2006 at 10:59 PM
They're lovely. I do think, however, that you and your new shoes deserve better than Juergen Teller's harsh faux-amateur-porno strobes.
Posted by: Chester | 19 January 2006 at 11:22 PM
YUMMY - at least I'm not the only one who can't stop photographing their shoes - it's like shoeporn but you actually get to wear them too!
Posted by: Claire | 20 January 2006 at 12:27 AM
I'm picturing you having a Carrie Bradshaw moment when you saw the shoes in the window: "Hello, Lover!"
Hey, you only live once. Enjoy them.
Posted by: The Bold Soul | 20 January 2006 at 01:31 AM
personally, I like them !
Unrelated , but I thought you should know
Printemps Haussman is having a special marc jacobs jewelry and other trinklets collection for prices around 10-50 bucks , 4-14 february .
Posted by: lachipie | 20 January 2006 at 01:37 AM
Very Coquette! Don't wear them often enough to wear out the label!
Posted by: R J Keefe | 20 January 2006 at 01:50 AM
SO JEALOUS!
Posted by: Sonja | 20 January 2006 at 03:56 AM
Fantastic, they are fantastic and I usually only like les bouts pointus ...you did well Coquette.
Posted by: Pink | 20 January 2006 at 03:58 AM
tres sexy! and love the low heal. no pain with pleasure here! you did very well.
Posted by: ering | 20 January 2006 at 05:37 AM
Lovely--no true lover of shoes could fault such a purchase!
Posted by: kim | 20 January 2006 at 06:26 AM
Mmmm... quite scrumptiously divine. Rouge fabuleux. Enjoy them!
Posted by: eurobrat | 20 January 2006 at 07:51 AM
I wear athletic shoes and Crocs because I don't work in a profession that allows for anything but "sensible" shoes, and my feet kill me most of the time. But I say that these shoes constitute money well spent. If I had any reason to wear pretty shoes, I'd want a pair like these!
Peace.
Posted by: Cheesemeister | 20 January 2006 at 08:46 AM
Ohhh.... don't worry, just wear them, and feel very Very.
Posted by: maitresse | 20 January 2006 at 09:52 AM
TOE cleavage??
You're bad, Coquette, very, very bad.
Posted by: Sammy | 20 January 2006 at 10:20 AM
Decadent: Marked by or providing unrestrained gratification; self-indulgent.
Oooh to be so decadent to have a pair of ruby red slippers in my wardrobe ... *gasp* ... toe cleavage too!
Just discovered your blog ~ I'll be back.
Posted by: The Rich Gypsy | 20 January 2006 at 10:28 AM
Have you learned nothing from me?! Lavin is always worth it. I got the pink satin ballerines. We will toast Elbar together as soon as you get home.
Posted by: GdP | 20 January 2006 at 11:42 AM
I do believe those shoes deserve their own party. Red cocktails, red food, red shoes.
Posted by: Lauren | 20 January 2006 at 12:06 PM
Toe cleavage is key in a pair of pumps.
Posted by: Dagny | 20 January 2006 at 09:30 PM
BEAUTIFUL!
Posted by: Beth | 20 January 2006 at 11:01 PM
Very 21th-century-Scarlett-O'Hara, I love them!
Posted by: Géraldine | 21 January 2006 at 12:40 AM
Very 21th-century-Scarlett-O'Hara, I love them!
Posted by: Géraldine | 21 January 2006 at 12:40 AM
i love the sexy but youthful/girly dorothy vibe. those shoes can go from a classic gamine look to volupt, bombshell
Posted by: kristin | 21 January 2006 at 02:09 AM
It's a sad comment on Chicago that shoes that fabulous made it to the remainder rack!
PS I'd like to see a photographic exhibit of a shoe a day from your closet on your blog.
Posted by: Amy Alkon, shoe whore | 21 January 2006 at 04:08 AM
Ahhh...one of the arts of Paris I haven't photographed yet - SHOES. Lanvin could be a photo all its own. Loved the commentary, but it reminds me of an episode of Friends when Rachel buys boots she is forced to wear because of the price. Hope these are MUCH more comfortable then those.
Posted by: Eric at Paris Daily Photo | 21 January 2006 at 08:18 AM
Those lovely Lanvins...so luxurious....to me they don't look so Dorothy as much as they look Marie-Antoinette-ish (Sophia Coppola's version), but toned down a bit...
Maybe not, but that's what they made me think of.
Posted by: shannon | 21 January 2006 at 07:23 PM
Shannon, you? me? same wavelength! I told my friend Kathleen that Kirsten can borrow these for the premier if she wants.
Oh, and in a strange Act III coincidence, I went to see Wicked last week in Chicago wearing these shoes, but only after making Kathleen promise that I wasn't going to look like a Dorothy groupie. She put the kibosh on the checkered dress, though.
Posted by: Coquette | 21 January 2006 at 09:33 PM
Yeah, those are hotter than hott. Nice work!
Posted by: Scarlet | 22 January 2006 at 03:43 AM
scrumptious. but now i wanna see what you pair them with. can you manage to bridge the gap between hot shoes and hot matching outfit?
Posted by: megan | 22 January 2006 at 01:18 PM
alber elbaz is my hero and i would move to paris just for him. lanvin rocks and you are a lucky lucky girl!
Posted by: gaelyn | 22 January 2006 at 07:00 PM
wait, i just had a realization, these beauties AND the YSL trophies from a while back reside in your closet all at once? your feet must be so conceded! they probably look better than the whole bodies of people back in the US! le sigh.
Posted by: gaelyn | 22 January 2006 at 07:03 PM
I love these shoes! They are stunning!
Posted by: Em | 23 January 2006 at 12:17 PM
SO CUTE. Also, congratulations on the Bloggie nomination, I voted for you, baby!
Posted by: Mrs. Kennedy | 23 January 2006 at 07:58 PM
I have to say that I'm new to your blog and this was the first blog that I read tonight THAT CRACKED ME UP! Absolutely fabulously hysterical. We all buy things on impulse and gasp the next morning, but you know what, something in your fashion heart and mind must have had some reason for wanting them. Wear them with LURVE 'cause they are fabulous.
Posted by: Heba | 23 January 2006 at 10:57 PM
These are the kind of shoes that can get you to the E.R. in no time around here. Frostbite they call it. Seriously. Did I say that here is Montréal?
Posted by: Sened | 24 January 2006 at 04:46 AM
Congrats on your webbie nomination.
Posted by: Couch | 24 January 2006 at 07:47 PM
Dear Mlle La Coquette,
Your shoes are utterly charming, it would have taken a hard soul to resist such coquettishness.
Enough of the small talk.
When are you getting back on that plane? You are simply not blogging enough, is it the lack of amusing material, in the fastfood world and tall skyscrappers?
Posted by: Holly | 25 January 2006 at 04:49 PM
Wow, I just discovered this blog and I could throw up. Get over yourself because you're deficient. Shoes aren't going to make you less ugly inside, and this blog isn't going to do the job either! It doesn't matter what influenced you; that's in the past and your values are eventually going to make you a slave, not a happy person. You're not an asset to Europe, and anyone who disagrees probably is ignorant. Say goodbye to Europe!
Posted by: Kaneda Shima | 25 January 2006 at 08:03 PM
I'm not an asset to Europe? Aww man. Call the board of tourism and take me out of the brochure.
Posted by: Coquette | 25 January 2006 at 08:11 PM
loads of us love your blog e.; keep up the good (and fun) work!
Posted by: camille | 25 January 2006 at 08:19 PM
i second that! this is the most fun i've had on the internet since i discovered instant messenger circa 1996.
Posted by: shannon | 25 January 2006 at 08:29 PM
Can't. Stop. Staring. At. Your. Shoes.
et Lanvin en plus!
Posted by: Aimee | 25 January 2006 at 11:12 PM
very!
Posted by: Jennifer Armstrong | 26 January 2006 at 02:46 PM
Holy mother of all that is good, pure, and shoe-related.
They are just... my GOD lovely.
Posted by: Léonie | 26 January 2006 at 06:34 PM
Who is this Kaneda Shima?!
You are an inspiration to blogging, and add joy and delight to a gray winter day. In fact you inspired me to blog myself. Now I am a compulsive blogger and have 3!
Posted by: Holly | 26 January 2006 at 07:26 PM
ooooh gorgeous!!!!
just think how lonely they would have felt if you left them in the shop:(
Posted by: ams | 27 January 2006 at 12:02 PM