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Anne Hathaway's Sparkly Oscars shoes: WANT

Feb 272011

When it comes to the Oscars and other awards shows, I’m just in it for the fashion. Living sans TV and subject to irritating US-only content restrictions for video, I usually just wait for my favourite blogs to put up photos of all the fabulous and fug gowns. But tonight twitter was abuzz about Anne Hathaway’s amazing shoes, and I couldn’t contain my curiosity until tomorrow!

Brian Atwood pumps

After much googling, I finally found a photo of the much fauned over shoes. They are, apparently, Brian Atwood custom black satin “Fiona” pumps with 8,000 hand-applied Swarovski Crystals. [via coolspotters and @StyleWriterNYC]

All I can say is wow. This is how you do sparkly shoes, people. Not “smeared in paste and rolled in glitter.” No, Brian Atwood does it right. I cannot even imagine the painstaking effort required to glue 8,000 crystals to a pair of pumps.

These shoes look like the night sky in a part of the world where light pollution doesn’t obscure the stars. I am 100% certain that Cher must have a pair of these. She probably wears them when she’s just hanging around the house. They’re like her Crocs.

Renee Zellweger - Oscar contortionist

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Feb 252008

The Skinny Website posted a photo of Renee Zellweger from this year’s Oscars that provoked a host of reactions in me. Namely, will someone please get this poor starving peacock a sandwich?

I was somehow able to stop staring at the strange and painful-looking foot contortion long enough to think hey, are those Christian Louboutins? Sweet!

In the full photo, Ms. Z is still rocking a most unfortunate haircut. I’m sure it’s practical for women who build sturdy pine furniture all day long, but Renee, take note: that is not a look that can take you from day to night.

And finally: what is up with that so-called Red Carpet? Fug plum shag, more like.

Stuart Weitzman gives Payless fug some Oscar bling

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Feb 242008

Steve Weitzman's million dollar Oscar shoes Every year, designer Stuart Weitzman makes poor people everywhere seethe with rage by designing an obscenely expensive pair of shoes to be worn by some lucky not-so-famous actress at the Oscars.

This year, Weitzman apparently decided to take this upper-class inside joke to the next level, unveiling a pair of shoes that could only be described as “Seriously? You dropped a million bucks on those?”

Gossip blog Mollygood dishes the details:

The ‘Retro Rose’ shoe features two Kwiat diamond roses, fixed to 1940’s-style beige metallic T-strap high heels. More than 1,800 Kwiat diamonds weighing 100 carats were used to make the roses and 400 of them have been incorporated into the design of the shoe, which is worth over $1 million.

Kind of obscene, no? What must Weitzman have been ~~drinking~~ thinking as he cobbled these together? “Oh, shit, the writer’s strike is over? I guess I need to put together those goddamned shoes for the Oscars, asap. Well, ok, I’ll take these last-season $35 gold shoes from Payless, and uhm…diamonds! Yes, that’ll do it. Lots and lots of diamonds…where’s my glue gun?”

Well, he got one thing right, they do look ‘retro.’ The Retro Rose sounds like a pin-up girl. I guess that’s why Weitzman decided to foist his tacky pity shoes on Juno writer and former stripper Diablo Cody – apparently without even asking her.

I guess she decided that she didn’t want his diamond-encrusted pity. On Oscar night, the fug-bling wonders were nowhere to be seen, and Ms. Cody was sporting a sensible pair of gold flats. You go girl. Stick it to the man.