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Thea Cadabra's fantasy shoes

Thea Cadabra does not design shoes for the timid; you need to possess a certain confidence and a definite sense of style to carry them off.   Inspired by Ziggy Stardust era David Bowie, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, and vintage glamor, her creations incorporate both humor and drama.   She manages to fit all that into her gorgeous little pieces of wearable sculpture while never sacrificing elegance and femininity.

Thea Cadabra began designing shoes in London in the mid 1970s, and quickly carved a place for herself in the London fashion world.  In 1979 her “All Weather” shoe had taken first prize in the Craft Council Shoe Show, and she soon earned both critical and commercial acclaim for her unique designs.

Shoe enthusiasts will be familiar with her Maid pump from 1980, with its cleverly sculpted heel.  Irresistibly seductive….  

Ms Cadabra stopped designing shoe collections under her own name in the early 1980s when she went to work for Charles Jourdan in France.  Every once in a while one of her eponymous designs shows up at auction, but of course you need lots of money – not to mention luck from the shoe gods in terms of sizing – to get your hands on a pair.

Fabulously enough, she recently decided to reissue some of her original shoe designs on a made to order basis.  They will be available in early 2010, and you can get all the details about this through her website.

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Zipper Loafers

A while back I posted about some shoes that I had rendered which incorporated zips around the toe instead of stitches. Today I am posting a few more images of these and an image of the Hermes loafer mine were designed around. 

             

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Is the CRE Shoe Dropping?

By: Andrew Fallon

Recent CRE Headlines – Which Ones Should We Believe?
FDIC Frets Over CRE Loan Losses
3 Signs of the Next Real Estate Collapse
Is a Market Bottom Imminent?
Plan Coming on Commercial Loans
Commercial Real Estate Debt Won’t be the Next Shoe to Drop

So the commercial real estate market will be the next economic catastrophe but the market bottom is near, investors have amassed substantial acquisition capital, and the FDIC is getting ready with a plan. Will CRE be the next shoe to drop? No one is certain how this will play out and varying sources have varying opinions, but something must budge when $1.4 trillion of commercial real estate debt matures over the next three years.

As reported, those likely to budge will be community banks, many of which hold portfolios containing a large percentage of commercial real estate and construction loans. NREI reports that nation-wide, community banks hold roughly 11% of total CRE industry assets. To this point, FDIC Chairman Shelia Bair is encouraging these banks to restructure existing and maturing loans in hopes of avoiding or minimizing larger losses. Unless value returns quickly, community banks might be the next shoe to drop. That will sting, but does it mean that the commercial real estate market is collapsing, and what will the overall impact be on Main Street and the financial system.

Fear and history has everyone thinking about the residential mortgage meltdown and the widespread financial impact, but commercial real estate is a different beast. First, the majority of loans causing concern are construction and development loans, not existing buildings. Secondly, even though CRE property values are down, the underlying assets are/or have potential to be income producing properties, which can be value-add opportunities to capable investors. Lastly, there is a market for distressed commercial real estate (as opposed to second homes). Investors have been amassing cash and REITs have been raising capital to acquire many of these troubled CRE assets. According to a NREI survey, 70% of investors are preparing capital to acquire real estate assets indicating that some investors see great opportunity in commercial real estate despite the doom and gloom reports. Who are you going to believe and what’s your appetite for risk?

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How To Open A Bottle Of Wine With A Shoe

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My Way

Munich My Way allows you to choose your own colors. Cool! The only downside (like a lot of these sites do), is not being able to save the design. You can bookmark it though! Nice..

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a twitter shoe

Haha…boljug nih sepokat! Judulnya apa ya? Nike Air Twitter?

Picture is taken from here.

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foot fetish in london

i went to london a couple months ago. here are some of the photos of my feet from the trip. the first one is standing on the platform for the train station. then two shots from the london eye and two outside the tower of london. mr paris met me there and we went shoe shopping. i also looked around at universities to attend after i'm done with my bachelor's degree in portland. i'm also considered LA, New York, Seattle, Chicago, Spain, Japan, Australia  and many more. i love traveling so i plan to do as much as possible! ;)

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Thats my shoe.

Heading home on the 'what you talking about luas'

-- I sent this from my 3 mobile --

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my pink heels stepping all over your dirty money

my feet love your money... stepping all over it, rubbing my toes over the tops of the crisp bills, smothering benjamin franklin with my pink heels that show off the curves of my high arches. you love it. i'm sure you want to see me step on YOUR money, so send it to me using chipin or my donation buttons. i love using boys like you to be my personal shoe buyers, so send it in so i can buy some more and feed my shoe fetish! ;)

~ KC ~

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For Cinderella in Lisboa

             

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We do not walk with them but we can dream a bit.
they will make you feel and smell like paradise on earth.

these are photo creation from Michel Tcherevkoff made from vegetal varieties.

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