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Emi reads latin & greek, and blogs about fashion.

Rachel loves gadgets, novels, purses and cheese.

Horrors of Fashion


Look! A tree trunk! This will make your legs look sooo slender and not at all like troll legs.
Givenchy fall 2012

Look! A tree trunk! This will make your legs look sooo slender and not at all like troll legs.

Givenchy fall 2012

Something about the round toe and the thin ankle makes this look a lot like a short rainboot. But oh wait! It has a wedge heel, and some clever person has slapped on the hide of a freshly skinned zebra! That makes it fashion, right?
Donna Karan fall 2012

Something about the round toe and the thin ankle makes this look a lot like a short rainboot. But oh wait! It has a wedge heel, and some clever person has slapped on the hide of a freshly skinned zebra! That makes it fashion, right?

Donna Karan fall 2012

Just try and tell me this doesn’t remind you of a furby. Just try.

Diane von Furstenberg fall 2012.

[EDIT]: go here. I dare you.

Furby from http://www.a-lou.com/.

Oh my god. Really? More carpet? Like, legit carpet. They probably recycled the carpet from motels they had to tear down because the 80s were over. So, that’s good I guess?

And these are the last carpet-shoes I’m posting, I promise. It’s just, why is this a thing?

Carven fall 2012

This shoe’s wearing a wig! And not even a nice wig! An old, grotty, granny wig! To add insult to injury, this probably costs more than my rent for the whole year.
Alexander McQueen Fall 2012

This shoe’s wearing a wig! And not even a nice wig! An old, grotty, granny wig! To add insult to injury, this probably costs more than my rent for the whole year.

Alexander McQueen Fall 2012

This is the unwanted, velvet bastard child of a high-heeled wedge and a tennis shoe. No one loves it.
Chloé Spring 2012

This is the unwanted, velvet bastard child of a high-heeled wedge and a tennis shoe. No one loves it.

ChloƩ Spring 2012

No.
Carven Spring 2012

No.

Carven Spring 2012

I’m really sorry, but this looks to me like a giant, saggy, furry testicle. I don’t want it on my arm.
Michael Kors Fall 2011

I’m really sorry, but this looks to me like a giant, saggy, furry testicle. I don’t want it on my arm.

Michael Kors Fall 2011

This looks like a mannequin foot that’s been subjected to a kindergarten art project.
Maison Martin Margiela Sequin-Splashed Leather Bootie $995

This looks like a mannequin foot that’s been subjected to a kindergarten art project.

Maison Martin Margiela Sequin-Splashed Leather Bootie $995

I love Bally but these are terrifying.
Bally Fall 2011

I love Bally but these are terrifying.

Bally Fall 2011

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