Trend: Heelless Shoes!

This seemingly odd trend is actually a recycled style from the 1950's Italian fashion era (designer unkown). However it recreated quite a stir on the runway for Manolo Blahnik's 2006 Spring collection. Now, fashion magazines, fashionistas and celebrities are taking to the heelless craze spending as much as 3.600.00 a pair! Apparently, "the trick is that the shoes are extremely heavy, because they are deliberately weighted in the platform base under the toe. This means that all your weight is forced forwards and then downwards, so you literally cannot tip backwards and there isn't any of that teeter-totter nonsense you get with normal heels (Guardian.co.uk)."Celebs like Victoria Beckham, Uma Thurman, Gwyneth Paltrow and, of course, the queen of the "unique" shoes Lady GaGa have been seen about in heelless shoes. 

 5-and-a-half-inch heel-less snakeskin Antonio Berardi shoe for $3,600!

Mark Jacobs

Marc Jacobs' Reverse Heel Shoe

Victoria Beckham in a Pair of Antonio Berardi heelless shoes