Before all the Manolos, the Jimmy Choos, the Louboutins there is one pair of shoes that has been the dream of every little girl (including the one writing this article): Cinderella’s glass slippers. What little girl wasn’t, at one point between the age of 4 and 10, the proud owner of a surprisingly cheap, incredibly uncomfortable and instantly breakable pair of “glass” slippers? They were the first “IT shoes” of our lives, the ones that shaped our idea of the perfect shoe – gorgeous yet terribly uncomfortable- and probably the reason of our weird and expensive shoe obsession.

Well, glass-slippers-owners-wannabes from all around the world get your credit cards ready because to celebrate the release of their new movie “Cinderella” (out on March 13), Disney Consumer Products asked nine designers to reinterpret the iconic shoe! Each of the nine designers - Paul Andrew, Alexandre Birman, Rene Caovilla, Jimmy Choo, Salvatore Ferragamo, Nicholas Kirkwood, Charlotte Olympia, Jerome C. Rousseau and Stuart Weitzman - had the possibility to create their own version of Cinderella’s slippers and what they came up with is simply enchanted. 

After being presented at Milan’s luxury department Excelsior – where it’s going to be on sale until March the 3^rd – the collection is going to travel all around the world: from  New York’s and Beverly Hills’ Saks Fifth Avenue to London Harrod’s , to Paris’ Galeries Lafayette, Moscow’s Tsum, Dubai’s The Dubai Mall and more!  The collection is also going to be available at some of the designer’s stores!

Miss Dior non plus? Not just yet! In this new film, directed by Anton Corbijn and staring Natalie Portman, we see Miss Dior, Christian Dior’s only child, about to get married but things don’t go as planned. Miss, in fact, is not quite ready to become a Madam and, instead of walking down the isle, decides to run away on a helicopter with a mystery man heading to the city of lights itself: Paris. But the story wouldn’t be complete without an iconic song for an equally iconic fragrance and what’s more iconic than Janis Joplin’s “Piece of my Heart”? The perfect love song for a heroine who’s not afraid to live her own life and remind us that “it’s Miss, actually”.

Click inside to see the making of the film! 

There were many people who thought that John Galliano wasn’t the best choice for the role of creative director at Maison Margiela – these days it seems like it’s better to take the name of the founder off the label and leave only his surname – and all these people were proven wrong in Monday’s presentation of his first couture collection that took place in London. Everything, from the bright and clean white of the room to the skimpy shorts and platform shoes, was a perfect mix of the two esthetics. 

All the looks were based on the ideas of artisanal, recycling and deconstructing – three key words engraved in the Maison’s DNA – but it was their mix with Galliano’s love for romantic yet daring silhouettes and dramatic moments that gave us the most exciting pieces of the collection. In true Margiela fashion every single piece concealed a huge amount of details so much so that Christopher Baily, creative director at Burberry and one of the few lucky people invited to the runway debut, said that he “wanted to keep pressing the pause button, to study, look closer at, play with and enjoy the clothes”.

As a matter of fact, this would have been the only way to truly appreciate every single element that went into creating the collection: a sleeveless canvas jacket was trimmed with matchbox cars, a crimson red coat was embellished with red lacquered seashells arranged in the fashion of Giuseppe Arcimboldo’s paintings and a long, black, wool coat was covered with toy soldiers. Galliano then balanced these heavy-detailed looks with other simpler, plainer garments: their quiet, monochrome perfection offered a moment of breath in an otherwise dense collection. But it was the last look that walked down the runway that had everyone in the audience gasp: a red, grand ball gown fronted with jewels, mirrors, portrait miniatures and more. To top the whole look off the model wore an organza-made, bejeweled day of the dead mask and an equally bejeweled glove. 

Instead of the grand exit that we all expected, Galliano took a blink-and-you-missed-it bow wearing none of his flamboyant signature looks, but the mansion’s traditional white coat; maybe to show that this time he’s there to stay. As shoe-designer, Manolo Blanick brilliantly declared “the boy is back!” Yes, he is indeed.   

Click inside to see the whole collection!