Fetishized footwear

Certainly there were no men around during the fashion weeks whom the fetishistically shod fashion editors might be trying to entice; instead, their shoes completed their strident, scary facades, that are de rigueur when spending four weeks jostling with your competitive colleagues. "A man might look at a woman in massive heels and think that she's teetering around, but she's not," says Rees. "She's striding forward." Albeit just a few inches at a time.