Top-5 of Sky Blue Shoes
Blue shoes combining sky blue and ultramarine shades offer an excellent color therapy as blue color is associated with the freedom of flying creatures that glide above in the sky and the freshness of sea breeze. Let’s have a look at five models of blue shoes that are considered to be the most spectacular among Spring-Summer 2011 footwear.
1. Barbara Bui sandals. These blue shoes help you march in step with another summertime trend, namely eco-friendliness, which is expressed in their wooden soles. The soles look great in combination with bright sky blue leather the sandals are made of.
2. Dior sandals. These sexy sandals are embellished with feathers to become a spicy detail in the image of a modern girl. The sandals feature jute soles ties with thin ropes while their heels are braided with sky blue jute fibers.
3. Gucci sandals. Their golden sole edging and the same golden python leather straps can definitely make you feel happy and confident. High heels of these blue shoes will further attract attention by their metallic glittering.
4. Louis Vuitton wedges. Though they weren’t included into the runway collection they have already attracted fashion lovers. The wedges are peculiar by a golden element with “Louis Vuitton” engraved lettering on the sole base.
5. Victor&Rolf sandals. Massive and steady, they are at the same time lightweight and comfortable on feet. Their Blue and green coloring combined with subdued blue is exceptionally hot this summer.
Riveted Shoes – One of the Micro Trends for Summer 2011
Several years ago shoe fashion was booming with metal elements in shoe design. Shoe designers embellished their creatures with sharp studs and nails; the same was true about clothes, handbags and accessories. Shoe trends for summer 2011 include punk-styled riveted shoes.
Those who haven’t had the chance to try on the “metallic” trend this summer offer the possibility to make up for the missed opportunity and buy a pair of shoes or sandals with metallic rivets or studs. Let’s have at new shoe models from one of the most spectacular trends for summer 2011.
New collections features shoes decorated with metallic rivets, nails and other things that march in step with the brave “punk” style. You can find interesting propositions in 
Alaïa, Alexander McQueen, Brian Atwood, and Christian Louboutin shoes collection. In Givenchy summer line-up there are sandals entirely studded with rivets over the entire surface.
Balmain fashion house offers one the most punk-inspired collection for spring-summer 2011. Their shoes collection features sandals embellished by massive metal chains and large nails with figured faceting. At the same time, Valentino shoe designers make rather a careful use of the trend and decorate their nude-colored sandals with accurate figured nails and thin chains.
There’re not many “metal” footwear this season in comparison to 2009 collection, but the generous décor of the new shoes doesn’t yield to rocker maximalist style of previous collections. And what do you think about this style?
Nina Ricci Shoe Collection for Spring-Summer 2011
Nina Ricci is a fashion house with a long history of success. Its present-day creative manager, Peter Copping, came here from Louis Vuitton that is another popular fashion house of France. Peter Copping has been working for Nina Ricci for two years already and has created as much as eight collections of clothing.
Mr. Coping’s collections are renowned for an excellent blend of femininity, romantic mood, light colors and smooth shapes. The same is true for his footwear and hence for Nina Ricci Spring-Summer 2011 shoes in particular.
The new collection from Nina Ricci includes seven models of shoes, sandals, boots and ballet shoes. All of them feature stable wide heels, which makes them highly comfortable and practical. A color scheme for the new footwear is marked by the domination of calm pastel shades, namely gentle pink and beige, brown and red, subdued yellow, and asphalt grey.
Nina Ricci elegant new sandals are fixed on a feet with thin handy straps and are fastened with an accurate zipper.
One of the sandal models is adorned with flowers and glittering beads, which makes it eye-catching as well. It is made from soft leather and suede. There’re also sandals made from calf leather though the fine design makes them look like the genuine reptile leather shoes.
B Brian Atwood Democratic Shoe Collection for Fall and Winter 2011/12
The talented footwear maker Brian Atwood is likely to extend a target group for his shoes. Recently he has launched the new B Brian Atwood affordable footwear lineup with rather an attractive price tag.
The lineup belongs to the designer’s Fall-Winter 2011/12 new collection and was presented at New-York fashion show a week ago. As a rule, the shoes will hit the stores on the threshold of the new season, which is not before mid August.
B Brian Atwood footwear collection was worked out together with the Jones Apparel Group. It includes a wide choice of women shoes and is comprised of nearly forty-five styles. The price per pair varies from $100 to $600.
With this collection Brian Atwood makes happy the lovers of his exquisite style, but still the designer doesn’t treat his democratic footwear as that of mass-market. He compared it with Prada Miu Miu youth footwear lineup. Nobody would say that Miu Miu are just cheap shoes for mass customers.
Brian Atwood also calls his new footwear practical. B Brian Atwood shoes are designed for everyday wear, which differentiates them from the main Brian Atwood collection that would suit red carpet events. The designer remarks that a Brian Atwood girl is glamorous while a B Brian Atwood girl is coquettish.
