Harrods - Shoe Heaven

No department store is complete without a shoe section and with the type of clientele that Harrods attracts you wouldn’t expect anything less than unparalelled luxury for their customers, queue; Harrods - Shoe Heaven space that's 42,000 sq ft, found on the 5th floor of the store with over 100,000 shoes available.

To celebrate the Shoe Heaven opening Harrods have invited some of the top footwear designers from around the world to each design a limited edition shoe as part of their exclusive ‘Silver Lining’ range - yep they are nothing short of luxury - Shoe Heaven you might even call it (ha! get it) and apt for the metallic trend at the moment. The designers involved, (take your pick of high end designers - the list is huge!) are:

Alaia

Aquazzura

Balenciaga

Burberry

Casadei

Charlotte Olympia

Christian Louboutin

Dior

Dolce & Gabbana

Gianvito Rossi

Gina

Givenchy

Gucci

Giuseppe Zanotti

Jimmy Choo

KG London

Nicholas Kirkwood

Manolo Blahnik

Prada

Roger Vivier

Rupert Sanderson

Salvatore Ferragamo 

Sophia Webster

Stuart Weitzman

Tabitha Simmons

Tod’s

Valentino

(breathe)

With so many designers in this range, I decided to pick out my favourites and this was tough! there are so many greats on the list but here we go..

Alaia

Burberry

Prada

Casadei

Sophia Webster

Christian Louboutin

Givenchy

Valentino

Stuart Weitzman

Dolce & Gabbana

Jimmy Choo

Roger Vivier

Rupert Sanderson

Website

www.harrods.com

Style
Silver Lining Range: 27 

Price

Ranges and prices are not available online

Cinderella's Glass Slipper

'Well if the shoe fits' - the Glass slipper featured in the new Cinderella movie

The Glass Slipper designed in honour of the new Cinderella Movie

As a little girl the idea of a glass slipper being handed to me by some talk, dark, handsome Prince charming seemed every bit as realistic as becoming a fairy or a princess. Obviously between then and now, reality sets in, you find a real career, shoes and clothes shopping are the only thing that make you happy and if you’re lucky enough your own prince charming comes with and untold amount of lavish dinner dates, holidays and gifts (I haven't received any glass slippers yet but I’m working on it!) So when I recently saw an Instagram post about Vogue commissioning 9 footwear designers to reinvent their take on Cinderella’s Glass Slipper, immediately I thought three things all at once; 1) how did my shoe radar not know this was going on and what designers are involved?!?!, 2) Where the hell do I buy them from?! and  3) the most important question of all; how will I convince my boyfriend, mum or sister to buy them for me?!**

I hurried home to check out what designers were part of the commission and what styles were available, I was happy to see some of my favourite designers.  Designers included were; Jimmy Choo, (a given) Paul Andrew (a new favourite designer of mine since last year), Jerome C. Rousseau, Stuart Weitzmen, Alexandre Birman, Nicholas Kirkwood, Salvatore Ferragamo (a classic), Charlotte Olympia and Rene Caovilla. The illustrations alone were amazing so you can imagine what the actual shoe looked like....

** My persuasive skills are abysmal so I’ve started saving for this small but worth while (I’m convincing myself) splurge. 

Jimmy Choo

£2,995

Salvatore Ferragamo

£1,395

Paul Andrew

£1,245

Alexandre Birman

£595

Rene Caovilla

£885

Nicholas Kirkwood

£1,795

Jerome C. Rousseau

£545

Stuart Weitzman

£2,950

Charlotte Olympia

£1,895

Stockists UK

Harrods
(made to order)

I spoke to a lovely man by the name of Simon at Harrods customer services (he was very helpful and polite) to find out the prices of these shoes. He informed me of the made to order requirement and also mentioned that they do not have the Charlotte Olympia Cinderella Slipper exhibited or stocked in the store. The shoes displayed in Harrods are unfortunately for display purposes only. (I tried my luck to)