In Vladimir Nabokov’s book, Lolita is an alluring, naughty, and cheeky twelve-year-old with a way of attracting older men. In Brian Atwood’s world, Lolita is an alluring, naughty, and elegant peep-toe pump that will ensure you attract all kinds of men!
This is one of those shoes that definitely needs to be on for you to get the full-effect. Only then can you see the way it makes your legs look long and sleek, how it curves openly around your foot for maximum femininity. No uncomfortable cutouts, either. Flesh-toned leather covered in embroidered black satin gives a nude-illusion while protecting your feet.
A shoe like this is the equivalent to sexy lingerie – revealing without actually revealing you. Amped up with slender, ankle-caressing straps, a flirty peep-toe, and daring stiletto, you’ll be coming on strong with your heated advances. But this is anything but slutty – a good, clean kind of sex: refined and sophisticated. A pump so wearable you have permission to make all the men (and women) at work hot and bothered on a daily basis…I’d like to make Brian Atwood hot and bothered. (Did I just say that? The man is seriously gorgeous and hot!) On Net-a-Porter for $1,165.
Pair with: Channel your inner nymphet for your next dinner date. Nina Ricci’s sassy, polka-dot cocktail dress is an explosion of tiered ruffles that shows off your waist. At Barneys New York for $4,790.
For once an Atwood shoe that doesn’t look like it would cause me permanent injury. Quite pretty!
Hi Kelly,
While I’m sure you didn’t intend any offense, I’m not sure you’ve read Nabokov’s Lolita. In it, Lolita is kidnapped and raped multiple times by an admitted paedophile, who often describes how she cries for hours after sex. She is certainly not alluring, and I am appalled that you would describe a child that way. The book uses a standard literary trope- the unreliable narrator- and it is very hard to believe that the protagonist Humbert Humbert is being truthful about how Lolita ‘has a way with older men’, and instead is twisting the story to make himself seem more sympathetic.
I am 100% that you do not condone child rape and paedophilia, but by carelessly using phrases like ‘alluring, naughty and cheeky twelve-year old’ you are unwittingly propagating the harmful and entirely incorrect idea that children are sexual beings. They are not. No child can consent to sexual relations with an adult, and this sort of playful reading of a book that is essentially about the destruction of a child’s innocence by a totally vile man is something that really pains me to see. There is no excuse for humorously extending a story about rape to discuss shoes.