Mock Croc's by Vivienne Westwood

Northampton Museum and art gallery famous for the largest collection of shoes and history of footwear is home to many incredible and outstanding pairs of shoes. Throughout various historical times and from several famous designers, the museum has kindly purchased many amazing pairs of shoes for our viewing. The pair that most caught my eye when looking through the collections was the “Super Elevated Ghillie Shoe”, Designed by Vivienne Westwood.  Known for her statement fashion and eccentric ideas these shoes are only one item in the many collections of hers that could be described as extravagant.

Next to the green mock crocodile super high heels is a quote from Vivienne Westwood herself “Slightly Uncomfortable footwear exaggerates the posture and forces people to question how they walk” and question how you will walk in these sky high heels is very true. The heel measures at 9 inches and the platform at the front is 4 inches even though the 4 inches at the front may offer some more support and the laces may help bring in some sturdiness our guess is that when wearing these shoes Vivienne’s idea of you questioning how you walk comes into play big time. Would you come up with a new method of trying to walk as normal in possible in them or just stick to how you walk in any other pair of platforms? As we can see these aren’t just any type of platforms there super elevated platforms.

Even the best of us struggle to walk in these super enhanced shoes when Naomi Campbell famously fell on the runway modelling this footwear in Paris 1993. It was the purple version of the one’s that we see in the museum but anyone who has seen the clip of her falling over our heart goes out to her and the shoes look more than impossible to walk in.  So if even iconic supermodels can’t walk in these shoes maybe it is safer that they stay on show in Northampton’s Museum and art gallery as we all don’t want to be falling over trying to walk in them.