Giuseppe Zanotti Nude Patent Peep-Toe Platform Slingbacks ($595) make your legs long and lean.
When the actress Ginnifer Goodwin, whom Dorian knows through the entertainment business, wore a pair of Milk & Honey peep-toe platform heels to a Prada book-launch party, fashion Web sites took notice.
On the right wall, just beyond a chrome Art Deco cocktail cart laden with silk scarves, select shoes were displayed on stacks of books protruding from the wall, which I supposed was an allegory celebrating the triumph of the open-toe platform ankle boot over art and literature.
The show had a 1940's feel, mostly because open-toe platform shoes, the casually pinned up, bed-slept hair and tweeds and out-of-kilter fur collars that will recall for anyone who lives in New York countless dowagers steaming up Park Avenue in their white gloves and good Delman shoes.
The movie ends with the former beauty queen shaking out her pinned-up hair, taking off her glasses, slipping on ruby red peep-toe platform heels that reveal a pink French-style pedicure, and facing down Vladimir Putin in an island in the Bering Strait.
I'm also wearing Sergio Rossi satin peep-toe platform pumps - they are black with a navy blue platform and heel.
Velvet sack dresses were delicately edged with fur, black cashmere coats appeared to be chalk-etched, and the leather gaiters just looked cool with the bubble-toe platforms.
This worm is beginning to turn, though, in the shoe department, where, next to the usual height-stunting ballet flats (which I loathe), there are now excellently severe, nasty black-diamond-skill-level Lanvin open-toe platforms with a six-inch heel like a plywood prison knife ($917).
Grenda Kids Mary Jane closed-toe jelly with strap and teardrop cutouts, $17; iridescent pink jelly with a double strap, open toe and platform sole, $29.
