I Want Her Shoes · Journal
A closer look at shoes, style, art and the women shaping them.
Style · Art · Culture
Miami Art Week guide
Featured · Style
A clay-modeled Rift, a sculptural wedge and a woman creator who makes process part of the story. Our shoe-as-art conversation starts here.
I Want Her Shoes Club · November 9, 2026 · 3 min read
Image courtesy of Nike x Melitta Baumeister.
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Style
Vogue reports a November 17 release for Springblade runners and gaiter-like boots. Our view: a dramatic silhouette can begin with an otherwise familiar outfit.
November 9, 2026 · 3 min read
Photograph: Kristina Nagel / Owenscorp, via Vogue.
Style
WWD reports a November 11 footwear debut rooted in Wotou tradition and Shanxi architecture. A closer look at details, not a rush to replace your wardrobe.
November 9, 2026 · 3 min read
Image courtesy of Songmont, via WWD.
Fashion as Culture
Kering confirms Martine Rose as creative director, starting November 16 in Paris, following Piccioli's departure. Updated November 9.
November 5, 2026 · 2 min read
Portrait: Liz Johnson Artur, courtesy of Kering / Balenciaga.
Fashion as Art
The Met announces extraORDINARY: Fashion and the Poetics of the Everyday. Think familiar clothes seen afresh, with the Gala dress code still to come.
November 5, 2026 · 2 min read
Fashion as Art
Artist-print trainers, expressive knits and collectible details: a first look at the November 11 collaboration, and how to make one piece your own.
November 5, 2026 · 3 min read
Fashion as Culture
A playful new capsule puts familiar graphics into statement pieces. Our take: let the memory inspire you, and let your own style make the decision.
November 5, 2026 · 2 min read
Design / New Talent
Three women to know after the 2026 CFDA Fashion Awards: Diotima's Rachel Scott, sculptural jeweler Ana Khouri and emerging designer Colleen Allen. A closer look at the craft and distinct points of view shaping American fashion.
CFDA · I Want Her Shoes Club · November 3, 2026
Photo: CFDA award trophy. Image: CFDA
Shoes / Personal Style
Velvet flats bring a festive texture to a familiar silhouette. Vogue's styling edit pairs slippers, ballet flats and mules with everything from eveningwear to jeans. Our question for the Club: would you swap your party heels for a pair?
Vogue · I Want Her Shoes Club · November 2, 2026
Photograph: Backgrid, via Vogue
Shopping Intelligence
The shoes, the shopping plan and the launch-date discrepancy to check before you head out, with tips for Miami, New York, Austin and San Francisco.
November 2, 2026 · 4 min read
Design / Craftsmanship
Loewe turns the humble rain boot into a transparent statement: practical footwear with absolutely nothing to hide.
AnOther · George Pistachio · October 16, 2026
Photo: Marius W Hansen; styling: Rebecca Perlmutar / AnOther
Shoes & Culture / Performance
Behind the Pigalle is a love letter to Paris, performance, and the power of a beautifully proportioned heel. Read Julie Le Minor’s interview with Christian Louboutin in Vogue France, in French.
Vogue France · Julie Le Minor · October 20, 2026
Photo: Christian Louboutin, via Vogue France
Craftsmanship / Fashion as Culture
Chloé’s studded clog brings a working shoe’s history into a decidedly more enchanted wardrobe.
AnOther · Rose Dodd · October 23, 2026
Photo: Marius W Hansen; styling: Rebecca Perlmutar / AnOther
Art & Collecting
Fashion becomes a platform for Black women’s creativity, memory, and connection through Alice Diop’s first artist-curator exhibition. A reflection on the Miu Miu project presented in Paris, October 21 to 25, not an upcoming event.
AnOther · Alexander Fury · October 21, 2026
Photo: Courtesy of Miu Miu / AnOther
Shopping Intelligence
The October 29 launch times, the IWHS 3-2-1 list and a city-by-city plan for Miami, New York, Austin and San Francisco.
October 18, 2026 · 4 min read
Fashion as Culture
As consumers become more cautious, Spring/Summer 2027’s wildest footwear suggests that one extraordinary shoe may be doing the emotional work of an entire new wardrobe.
October 13, 2026 · 5 min read
Personal Style / Styling Intelligence
After a season of skirt-first runways, street style has landed on the most useful formula: a softer pencil skirt grounded by a sharp pointed pump, polished, powerful, and never too corporate.
Vogue · Emma Spedding · October 12, 2026
Photo: Vincenzo Grillo / Vogue
Fashion as Culture / Community
Vogue traces how the front row evolved from industry seating chart to culture-making stage, where editors, clients, creators and artists now shape how the world sees a collection.
Vogue · Joan Kennedy · October 12, 2026
Photo: OK McCausland / Vogue
Shoes / Personal Style
Paris is updating the classics through small but decisive details: high vamps, elongated toes, slim sneakers, second-skin boots and polished loafers that do more with less.
ELLE · Sam Peters · October 9, 2026
Photo: Getty Images via ELLE
Runway / Fashion as Art
Nicolas Ghesquière closed Paris Fashion Week beneath hovering Damier cars at the Louvre, then brought the spectacle back to the body with weightless tailoring, fluid layers and a new simplicity engineered to move.
Vogue · Nicole Phelps · October 6, 2026
Photo by Filippo Fior / Gorunway.com
Runway / Fashion as Art
One year into Matthieu Blazy's Chanel, mannish tailoring, translucent tweed and deep-red sequins took wing beneath a monumental canopy of golden birds at the Grand Palais.
Vogue · October 5, 2026
Photo by Isidore Montag / Gorunway.com
Runway / Personal Style
Julian Klausner turned vintage movie-poster fantasy into clothes for real life: cocktail dresses over rugby shirts, clashing prints, mismatched jewelry and the pure pleasure of dressing up.
Vogue · Nicole Phelps · September 30, 2026
Photo by Umberto Fratini / Gorunway.com
Craftsmanship / Fashion as Culture
Gabriela Hearst placed Afghan women's artistry and heritage at the center of her Paris collection, turning traditional pattern and handwork into a statement about culture, dignity and connection.
Vogue · October 5, 2026
Photo by Filippo Fior / Gorunway.com
Design / Craftsmanship
Chitose Abe exposed and reassembled the logic of clothing, letting utility, vulnerability and femininity move through the same hybrid silhouette.
Vogue · October 5, 2026
Photo by Isidore Montag / Gorunway.com
Runway / Fashion as Art
A “villain teen” attitude meets hobble skirts and old-school glamour in Valentino’s Paris show for spring.
Vogue France · Alexandre Marain · October 5, 2026
Runway / Fashion as Art
Miguel Castro Freitas sharpens Mugler’s command of the silhouette into sculpted lines, controlled drama, and unmistakable physical presence.
Vogue · Miguel Castro Freitas · October 4, 2026
Photo credit GoRunway, via Vogue
Runway / Fashion as Art
The designer talks about carrying Westwood’s activist spirit into a new season, in his own words.
ELLE · Kristen Bateman · October 4, 2026
Photo by Victor Virgile/Getty Images
Runway / Craftsmanship
Nadège Vanhée made air feel tangible through paper-thin calfskin, silk pongee, openwork knits and fluid scarves, proving that Hermès craftsmanship can whisper and still command the room.
ELLE · Kristen Bateman · October 3, 2026
Photo by Lou Benoist/Getty Images
Runway / Personal Style
Michael Rider’s “emotional dressing” moved from sharp leather and little black dresses to playful proportion, patchwork bags and jazz shoes: real clothes with enough personality to change a mood.
ELLE · Matthew Velasco · October 3, 2026
Photo by Alessandro Lucioni
Shoes & Culture / Performance
Christian Louboutin turned La Pigalle into the star of “Eternal Youth,” a surreal Paris performance where Dita Von Teese rose from a monumental stiletto and painted Snow White’s fairy tale in signature red.
Cultured · Sam Falb · October 3, 2026
Photo by Benjamin Malapri
Runway / Fashion as Culture
Sarah Burton’s precision gave way to sculptural peplums, surreal sleeves, monumental jewelry and flashes of red footwear: a wardrobe designed by a woman that refuses to take up less space.
ELLE · Kristen Bateman · October 2, 2026
Photo by Indigital.tv
Runway
A first look at the Loewe Spring 2027 runway, now live on Vogue. Browse the full collection gallery while the written review is on its way.
Vogue · October 2, 2026
Runway photo: GoRunway
Runway
Daniel Roseberry brings the Schiap jacket into a sharper, more wearable register: dinner-ready surrealism, plus new low shoes we can actually picture on an ordinary Tuesday.
Vogue · Nicole Phelps · October 2, 2026
Runway photo courtesy of Schiaparelli
Runway
Chemena Kamali layers broderie anglaise, precise tailoring and dramatic rainwear, a confident next chapter in the Chloé language we already love.
Vogue · Sarah Mower · October 1, 2026
Runway photo courtesy of Chloé
Runway
Pierpaolo Piccioli takes couture construction into real life: denim, white tees, sharp tailoring and deconstructed footwear made for the everyday.
Vogue · Sarah Mower · October 1, 2026
Runway photo: GoRunway
Runway / Paris Fashion Week
Saint Laurent’s Spring 2027 show celebrated Anthony Vaccarello’s tenth anniversary with a gilded collection of towering stilettos, including sculptural heels shaped like sinuous snakes. Against the Eiffel Tower, the house turned gold, glamour and footwear into pure spectacle.
Vogue Arabia · September 30, 2026
Runway / Milan Fashion Week
Milan’s Spring 2027 runways delivered joyful footwear provocation: Marni’s open-back Mary Janes with attached knee-high socks, MM6’s six-layer rainbow flip-flops and Bottega Veneta’s fishnet-covered feet.
W Magazine · September 30, 2026
Style
With Dior, Chanel, and Schiaparelli sending terrifically kooky clompers down the runway, this fall is all about fancy footwork.
The Cut · Hanna Flanagan · September 25, 2026
Shoes & Culture / Gatherings
A New York shoe collaboration comes to life over steak, martinis, and a room full of women whose personal histories are inseparable from what they wear.
Vogue · Anna Grace Lee · September 25, 2026
Personal Style / Styling Intelligence
A practical but thoughtful examination of how proportion, texture, color, and one decisive shoe turn clothing into personal expression.
Vogue · Minty Mellon · September 22, 2026
City Notes
What each of our cities is good at, and how to spend a day there with your eyes open.
September 19, 2026 · 5 min read
Art & Collecting
You need less money and more patience than you think. Here is the honest beginning.
September 16, 2026 · 6 min read
Design / New Talent
A young designer turns cinematic tension, self-portraiture, and conservative ambiguity into the barely-there shoes that quietly stole Area’s NYFW show.
Vogue · Alexandra Hildreth · September 14, 2026
Style
Trend cycles are faster than ever. Your own point of view is the only thing that keeps up.
September 12, 2026 · 6 min read
Art & Collecting
Both are ways of deciding what you want to look at every day, and what you want to be seen with.
September 8, 2026 · 5 min read
Community
Anna and Chef Nicole Votano on moving through change, self-connection, steadying routines, smaller trusted circles and why friendships work like medicine.
March 5, 2026 · 4 min read
Wellness
Plastic surgeon Dr. Silvia Rotemberg on changing aesthetic goals, explant and lift, implant lifespan, recovery, choosing a surgeon safely and the limits of what surgery can change.
February 26, 2026 · 10 min read
Personal Style
Serious Style founder Paola Arencibia on reading your closet as evidence, her closet detox, wearing what you love daily and shopping only for what you truly need.
February 19, 2026 · 7 min read
Reinvention
Family law attorney Denise Rappaport Isaacs on preparing for divorce with a financial safety net, organized records, early legal advice and focus, plus the personal side of rebuilding after a marriage ends.
February 12, 2026 · 12 min read
Reinvention
Ida Spritzer on a life that moved from fashion buying through caregiving and widowhood into art, meditation and energy work, and why reinvention unfolds slowly, often before anyone else can see it.
February 5, 2026 · 8 min read
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The Shoe Edit
Our running library of remarkable women's shoes, the designers, the ideas and the pairs shaping how we dress now. Chosen by I Want Her Shoes; every link goes to the original publisher.
Found a remarkable shoe? Send it to usHarper's Bazaar · September 22, 2026
Two-tone pumps, satin heels, slipper mules and reptilian finishes set the tone for a season of updated classics and polished edge.
WWD · September 15, 2026
Editor-tested flats for the season between sandals and boots, with Mary Janes, pointed toes and richer textures in the mix.
WWD · September 5, 2026
Performance footwear meets a more expressive, women-first point of view in On and FP Movement’s latest collaboration.
WWD · September 4, 2026
A practical edit of polished shoes built with width and wearability in mind, proof that comfort need not flatten personal style.
Vogue · September 2026
A sharp runway-to-real-life read on the silhouettes defining fall, from petite heels to house-shoe ease.
designboom · August 4, 2026
An experimental shoe turns discarded tennis balls into visible building blocks, making circular design impossible to overlook.
Marie Claire · August 2026
The season’s key runway directions, distilled into the shapes and details most likely to influence what women actually wear.
Vogue · July 27, 2026
A useful styling guide for the season’s less-obvious pairs, with outfit ideas that make each trend feel wearable.
designboom · July 13, 2026
Recycled Ethernet cables become texture, structure and cultural commentary in a one-of-one wearable sculpture.
Footwear News / WWD · June 30, 2026
A founder story about treating support and elegance as one design brief, not an either-or compromise.
Vogue · April 8, 2026
Fresh proof that the pump is less a dress-code relic than a versatile anchor for modern, everyday styling.
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From the IWHS Archive
Favorite conversations from the I Want Her Shoes archive, now part of The Edit.
Style · IWHS Archive
Celebrity stylist Samantha Brown on why getting dressed is a strategy, not a chore, and how closet clarity changes the way you walk into a room.
Reinvention · IWHS Archive
Emily Dempsey traded the buying office for community building and Bitcoin education, a conversation about trusting the pivot before it makes sense.
Career · IWHS Archive
Katie Love left the newsroom to build her own agency, on storytelling, being visible on purpose, and what it takes to lead a women-led team.
Wellness · IWHS Archive
No crash plans, no January guilt, a kinder take on fitness that builds habits you'll still love in June.
Career · IWHS Archive
Sandra Abi Rashed on leading when there's no playbook, trusting the data, finding mentors, and making room for other women at the table.
Style · IWHS Archive
Ella Muradyan's calm guide to holiday dressing, outfits that feel like you, without the last-minute panic.
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Every other week, a short letter on style, work and the women we're listening to. Each edition lives in full on iwanthershoes.com.
Latest edition · Vol. 7
Late-summer reading for women who never quite switch off, the conversations, style notes and names worth knowing before September.
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Vol. 6 · July 15, 2025
A mid-summer edit on presence: what we wore, what we listened to, and the guests who made us rethink the next move.
Vol. 5 · June 24, 2025
Career pivots, closet clarity and a few beautiful distractions, the edition for anyone quietly planning something new.
Vol. 4 · June 10, 2025
On building the room you want to be in: episode highlights, city finds, and the small rituals behind an ambitious week.
Vol. 3 · May 27, 2025
Style as strategy, in practice, plus the guests, gatherings and good reads we were passing around that week.
Vol. 2 · May 13, 2025
One of the earliest editions: the women we were listening to, and the beginnings of the club we're building together.
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