Lobster Claw Stiletto Booties
The world needs fantasy, not reality. We have enough reality today.
Fashion designer Alexander McQueen, commenting in the New York Times Magazine on his ’lobster claw stiletto booties’
The magazine reports:
During Paris fashion week in October, Alexander McQueen sent down the runway lobster-claw ankle booties that were the highest, and probably the strangest, shoes we have seen since the disco footwear of the 1970s. “I don’t think it makes sense to play safe in these times,” McQueen said in an interview. The boots … were part of McQueen’s Spring 2010 collection, “Plato’s Atlantis,” a dystopian aquatic vision.
Damn it, yes! That’s it, that’s the term I’ve been looking for all these years–ever since I started researching The Secret Life of Lobsters–to describe the state of my own mind: a “dystopian aquatic vision.”
The implications of which are frightening:
The boot transformed the models’ feet into … the claws of some futuristic crustacean. … McQueen, influenced by On the Origin of Species, presented a kind of evolution in reverse: from the sea we emerged; to the sea we will return.
Photo by Don Ashby in the New York Times Magazine.