Is your footwear fancy enough? That’s the question we’re asking after Kate Moss’s 42nd birthday celebrations this weekend, for which the model almost achieved a social media blackout – but not quite.
A picture of Moss’s party outfit has emerged, via designer Pam Hogg’s Instagram account, and there are a whole lot of sequins going on. In the background, no fewer than four varieties of animal print vie for attention, presenting further evidence that Moss’s recently established interiors company will have no truck with Kinfolk-style neutral walls and hand-hewn wooden furniture.
The party was David Bowie-themed – a celebration of the life of the friend Moss loved, imitated twice in Vogue and swapped clothes with – and represented the second time Moss has worn Bowie-esque glittery platforms in tribute to the singer in the wake of his death. As with so much Moss does, she seems to have captured the zeitgeist with this – from the feet on the front rows of Milan’s menswear shows to the partywear of actor Juno Temple, glam-rock boots are having quite a moment.
Saint Laurent got the ball rolling last year, showing ankle boots that looked as though they had been dipped in glue and rolled in glitter. Next season, designers have graduated to shiny, proper glam-rock platforms, as seen at Miu Miu and Marc Jacobs.
But even better news from the high street: retailers don’t generally expect shoppers to wear something this shimmery so soon after Christmas, so many disco boots are already in the sale. It is, after all, a bold dresser who ignores raised eyebrows, curtain-twitchers and squares and wears sequins on their feet in January – which, as fashion tributes go, feels rather fitting.
