The big shoe trend: Slippers turn into the focus of attention of this season in the fashion world.
With echoes from New Arabian Nights and their aristocratic and decadent style, Slippers monopolize everyone’s attention asking for their doses of protagonism. The new “stars” of our time don’t let classics being forgotten, for this reason Slippers step on the asfalt with strenght and celebrities, faithful followers of this kind of shoe inspired by the British aristocracy who used them to feel comfortable at home, incorporate them in their street style.
Alexa Chung, Poppy Delevingne, Olivia Palermo or Miranda Kerr give us some style lessons, using Slippers with jeans, miniskirts or dresses, that provide a chic and casual touch at the same time.
Meanwhile, on international runways, designers gave an unequivocal signal of how comfortability and sensuality of the home outfit achieve the maximum climax this season.
Victoria Beckham in floreal pattern & Balenciaga with lace, Spring 2016
Acne Studios, Spring 2016, in leather
It was Alessandro Michele, Gucci’s creative director, the responsible of converting last year fuzzy slippers into the most wanted shoes of the fashion universe and gave them back their place into the feminine and masculine wardrobe.
However, the Italian brand has not been the only to take part in the Slippers resurrection. Other brands, desiring to rescue them from the past, also have worked on the sensual side of these legendary shoes, halfway between house slippers and moccasins.
As a magic trick, Slippers have reinvented themselves into endless possibilities and elegant finishes, to provide new effects to the look.
WITH INLAYS
Thanks to the shiny details, shoes exhibit a baroque appearance, focusing the attention on feet.
WITH LACE
The finesse of this fabric covers them with a handcrafted and suggestive spirit, a gesture of classical elegance.
IN PATENT LEATHER
Patent leather with his artificial brightness, decorates the extended silhouette, evoking pop period.
IN VELVET
His texture, that creates different light effects, involves them in a halo of sophistication really attractive.
WITH TASSELS & POMPONS
With naïf appearance, these ornamental details, sometimes multicolors, add an element of humor and uniqueness to the look.
WITH FUR
Broom effect or fur-covered slippers are the new cool shoes, brave and with an eccentric touch.
WITH PRINT PATTERN
Without importing shapes or sizes, a floreal garden can be printed on different materials. Flowers, in all their versions, rule this season.
METALLIC
Leather in gold and silver tones and glitter effect, cover the shape of the shoe, reviving the Studio 54 spirit of the 70’s.
Meanwhile fashion industry is struggling between oblivion and reinvention, the last option is that bring us back the Slippers, boasting their versatility to be up-to-date. Because fashion, apart from selling, let us to discover new emotions and to restore sensuality with large amount of audacity and effrontery. As the new tendency.
