What’s spangly, gives your podiatrist nightmares and costs the best part of a grand? The style set’s latest obsession of course. Despite the bad backs those of us who spent the best part of the Noughties walking around in them, ballet shoes are back with a vengeance. But not just any old common £15 Bloch hit. No, the coolest, chicest and most in demand versions are by Alaïa. An a-what-a? Yes Clueless stans, the very same esteemed French house founded by the late Azzedine Alaïa in 1964, still white-hot thanks to his successor Pieter Mulier’s deft way with a cult accessory hit and clothes to drool for.
The brand’s crystal flats — a single strap oval-toed flat studded with clear crystals — were first launched in May 2022, since then the shoe has become a repeated sell out success, with fans clamouring to get their hands on a pair, even at £750 for the mesh version and £890 for the leather.
