Women love everything unusual, surprising and exclusive. Designers try to provide them with as much as possible wide choose, same as in the top the most unusual shoes in the world. And the imagination of fashion designers is all it takes to please all the ladies.

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1.Hoof shoes

This unusual shoe model was created by shoe designer Iris Schifferstein. They are made from real horse hooves. Iris created many models with hooves.

2.Ribbon shoes

Another creative creation by London designers. The climate in London is, of course, milder than in Barnaul, but not so much that you can walk barefoot!

3.Shoes without soles

Another creative from Annette Kosters. Shoes for frost-resistant ladies. There are no soles again.

4.Glass shoes

And these elegant pumps for Cinderella were created by designer Martin Margielle. He probably loves fairy tales very much.

5.Golden shoes

These shoes were made in the city of Wuhu, which is located in the Chinese province of Anhui. For what? Nothing unusual. No, let them go back to a known address, to their native province.

6. Shoes-reinforcement

Polly Verity, who created this masterpiece, is a sculptor. He created the frame of an elegant shoe, but he didn’t have time to wear it yet.

7. Origami shoes

Budget option from the “do it yourself” series. According to designer Catherine Mute, buyers will fold the structure themselves.

8.Nail shoes

It's a terrible thing, it looks like a torture device.

9. Braid shoes

Oh, and these are Yulia Tymoshenko's slippers. Cosy, convenient and inexpensive.

10.Green shoes

For members of the Greenpeace organization. Regular shoes from the “farewell to youth” series are decorated with environmentally friendly materials.

11. Lolita shoes

Lolita has matured a little.

12. Shoes - children's slide

Classic pump with a staircase heel.

13.Slingshot shoes

Sandals with a slingshot heel. How can you imagine that this weapon will fire!

14. Designer shoes

Sandals for women whose husband is an engineer.

15. Guitar shoes

Bright sandals with stretched strings. For my guitarist husband.

16. Bar stool shoes

You can sit on a chair, but how can you walk?

17. Giant shoes

This is also a torture instrument. Or genetically modified stilts.

18.Spiderman's shoes

These are unusual shoes. Parkour fans will be delighted.

19.Very scary shoes

Shoes for advertising depilatory creams, photo - before.

20. Roller shoes

Cute, but regular rollers are more convenient.

21.Romantic shoes

Like a version of Spiderman's shoes, only for a lover.

22.Doggy shoes

Graceful, more like a cat.

23.Hairy shoes

Some strange predilection for leg hair. In this case, the hair grew on the heels.

24.Bird shoes

Really unusual shoes. And the toucan is quite recognizable.

25.Plastic shoes

The most unusual shoes in the world. A stunningly beautiful shape that can also be a shoe. The author is London architect Julian Hakes.

26.Dangerous shoes

Dangerous only for the sense of taste.

27. Banana shoes

Very pretty. Shoes of the inhabitants of the flower city.

28.Mirrored shoes

Created by a Brazilian designer. When they move they look unusual, like a girl without legs.

29. Key shoes

Shoes from the “cheap and cheerful” series.

30.Disposable paper sneakers

Honest shoes, which is unusual. Some manufacturers skip “disposables”.

31.Spring sneakers

It must be nice to walk. But only on very good roads.

32.Torn sneakers

Youthful, cute, but not unusual. This is already a classic.

33.Meat shoes

Lady Gaga's shoes seem like the most unusual ones in the world. This is how female workers at meat processing plants used to walk around 30 years ago.

34. “Alien” shoes

Unusually, the design is a haunting reference to the film.

Text: Olesya Iva

A series of parties is approaching to which you want to choose not only shiny pumps, but also a pair of unusual shoes. We've selected eight options for shoes and ankle boots with heels and unusually shaped platforms that you can now buy in online stores.

DUKAS

One of the most elegant pairs of shoes is shown by the Greek shoe brand DUKAS: pumps peach color on a wedge with a heel in the shape of a woman's legs. The DUKAS brand is young but remarkable. Since the early 2000s, they have shown their shoes at Italian haute-couture Fashion Weeks, and in 2004 they created sandals that became a talisman Olympic Games in Greece. In addition, the brand does not forget about charity. Every year, DUKAS creates an accessory, the proceeds from the sale of which go to the Leap to Life Association of Women with Breast Cancer.

Irregular Choice

The most fun couple offers English mark Irregular Choice shoes: These are red and black velvet shoes with a gold toe and Santa for the heel. These are the kind of shoes you want to wear with shiny tights, like at the Meadham Kirchhoff show, and preferably in combination with stupid curls. When ordering this pair, remember that the Irregular Choice shoes run small, so go a half size up.

Jeffrey Campbell

We found nude suede Fendi shoes with a neat strap on the farfetch.com sale. They could have blended into the foot if it weren't for the distinctive spiked heel. This pair is currently 40% off.

FINSK

At first glance, Englishwoman Julia Landsten (a graduate of the Royal College of Art in London) makes avant-garde shoes that are unstable and unsuitable for life. However, it is not. Eyewitnesses say: you can walk. Julia developed the design of the shoes together with shoemakers in Brazil, who pass on their skills from generation to generation. Natural materials are used in production: the heel is wooden, the base of the shoe is leather.

Karl Lagerfeld for Melissa

Recently, the eco-friendly shoe label Melissa has been actively collaborating with Karl Lagerfeld. Their collaboration features a pair of glossy pumps with an ice cream heel. This pair, like all Melissa shoes, is made from melted down 100% recycled rubber. Whether you will be comfortable in it is another question. Melissa candy-rubber pumps often rub your feet.

WXY

We recommend taking note of the young Taiwanese shoe brand WXY, which produces futuristic shoes. For example, this architectural pair of shoes is made of soft leather, the heel resembles its own blueprint. The boots are available in yellow and black.

What to surprise with in the fall? What to wear to look beautiful and original? You can opt for a bright coat or unusual trousers, but it will be even better if you wear shoes with an unusual heel. They are found on our city streets much less often than orange trench coats and culottes, and therefore they will certainly create a sensation and attract everyone’s attention.

Shoes that will make you stand out from the crowd

Among the fall shoe trends there are many beautiful shoes - these are loafers, Cossacks, classic pumps and open-toed boots. But the most unusual of the long list of season favorites are shoes with a non-standard heel shape. With what, with what, the designers have experimented with it to their hearts and now true fashionistas have several dozen options for what to choose and for what occasion. The most common among them are:

• wide transparent heel in the shape of a round block,
• tapered triangle heel,
• metal heel in the shape of a sphere,
• curved or spiral heel

Transparency is the number one trend this fall

Completely transparent plastic is the most popular material of the current season. Fashion designers use it to make everything from raincoats and raincoats to elegant women's handbags. Therefore, it is not at all surprising that he reached shoe workshops, where they had long ago learned how to make transparent pumps and high-heeled shoes.

Also this season, wide transparent heels of medium height are in particular demand, which can complement absolutely any shoe. According to the designers, it is very comfortable and makes the gait more natural and feminine.

Most often it can be seen on ankle boots and boots, made in a wide variety of colors. If you pay attention to classic dark models, then a transparent heel will look quite harmonious against their background and will make such shoes quite acceptable even for work.

For a party or attending a festive event, it makes sense to pay attention to flashy latex shoes in acid blue and orange tones, together with which a transparent plastic heel block will look even more eccentric and flashy.

Inward triangle heel

Another popular fall trend is a small triangular heel that looks inward.

It can decorate flip-flops, which can perfectly replace house slippers:

Or be part of closed pumps with pointed toes, which look perfect together with formal trousers and straight-cut jeans.

Metallic, transparent and colored sphere

Among all the possible shapes of heels, most of all fashionistas from all over the world this year fell in love with the correct rounded sphere, which can have the most varied appearance.

Most often it replaces the heel of mule-shaped slippers, but is also often found in closed ankle boots and low boots. Interesting examples of such heels could be seen during the autumn-winter shows in the Prabal Gurung collection.

The chief designer of the brand decided not to limit himself to one geometric shape and connected the sphere together with an oval heel, slightly beveled at the top:

The geometry trend was immediately followed by many mass market brands. Now similar shoes can be seen in Zara, Topshop and Mango stores.

For example, Zara offers its customers beautiful shoes and slippers with wooden heels in the shape of a sphere, which will be comfortable for walking around the house in the fall, and can be worn outside in the spring.

Also for warm autumn weather in their assortment you can see flip-flops with closed pointed toes, decorated with a wooden hemisphere heel:

As for Topshop, its masters went further and almost completely copied the shape of the Prabal Gurung heel, offering lovers of everything extraordinary and trendy a double heel with a sphere and a trapezoid:

Curved heel

Another trend that has been in fashion for several years in a row is the curved heel, which can look completely different. So, some designers like to experiment with metal, so they suggest women wear shoes with heels that resemble a twisted chain (example from Balmain):

Others, on the contrary, gravitate toward abstraction, so they create stable lasts with completely unimaginable heels. They can be bent deep inward or even be visually torn from the base of the shoe:

In reality, all this is just a play of shape and color, and boots with such an instep are quite comfortable and wearable (though it is better to walk in them for short distances).

Along with this, it should be noted that today the so-called kitten hills, which are small heels on a thin base, are in fashion. They are also quite practical to use and are suitable for those who like a little lift.

Shoes, like clothing, have a rich history. Since ancient times, it has been created under the influence of many factors: climate and natural conditions, occupation of the population and social aspects. In different eras, shoes were made from wood, papyrus, leather and other materials.

Over many centuries, man has produced a huge number of shoe models: sandals, slippers, shoes and ballet flats, boots, sneakers, etc. There are so many options! Today we have prepared the top 10 most unusual and most original options shoes in the history of mankind. Let's see!

Okobo

Okobo are the traditional shoes of a novice geisha - maiko. Outwardly, okobos are similar to clogs, but one can only dream of comfort in them. Okobo increased the height of the maiko and forced her to move as she should walk in a kimono - with small graceful steps. In addition, young maiko wore okobo for the purpose of not getting their kimono dirty, the cost of which was very high.

The height of the okobo platform was about 15 cm, and the color of this unusual shoe depended on the girl’s “professional suitability” - beginning students wore red okobo, and those who had completed their studies wore yellow.

Louis XIV high heels

As strange as it may sound now, in the 1700s in Europe, stockings and shoes played an important role in men's fashion, which became popular thanks to Louis XIV. The fact is that Louis was overweight and short. Therefore, in order to somehow emphasize his legs (at that time, aristocrats sought to emphasize their slimness), Louis was forced to wear heels. Later, other men borrowed this technique.

Kabkabs

In Lebanon in the 14th-17th centuries. wooden Kabkaba shoes were widespread in women's fashion. Simple Lebanese women wore it so as not to get dirty in the street dirt. But the kabkabs of famous ladies looked like real works of art. They were inlaid with mother-of-pearl, and the top was embroidered with gold or silver wire. Both expensive and simple kabkabs were attached to the leg using silk or leather straps.

Lapti

At the beginning of the 20th century, the everyday shoes of Finnish women were bast shoes woven from birch bark strips with a fabric insole. They were also used as galoshes to protect more expensive leather boots from rain, mud and snow. Similar bast shoes, which were also common in Norway, Sweden and even Russia, usually lasted for a maximum of a week.

Chopins

The original chopins on an 18-centimeter wedge appeared during the Renaissance. However, their life in fashion history was short-lived. Some examples have survived only in a few museums. Like okobos, chopins were very impractical and were worn to stand out from the crowd. In addition to the fact that these shoes were uncomfortable, they also had a high price.

Shoes by Antonio Berardi

For the first time, these original shoes without heels were presented by the designer in 2007, and in 2008, style icon Victoria Beckham was already wearing fashionable shoes. Despite the uncomfortable appearance of the shoes, the designer claims that walking in them does not cause the slightest pain, but doctors do not agree with Berardi. According to them, if you regularly wear such shoes, you can harm your spine and knees.

Paducah

Padukas are the oldest footwear in India. Padukas were usually made from silver, wood or iron, rarely from expensive Ivory. There is even a thorny variety of paduka that is used by masochists to gain satisfaction or sexual arousal by inflicting pain on themselves. Studded paduka sandals are worn by sadhus to prove loyalty to the gods through self-torture.

Wooden wedding shoes

Wooden wedding shoes. This unusual shoe originated in the French Bemal Valley. Local men made such shoes for their brides. There was a belief that the higher the toe of a shoe, the more a man loves a woman.

Pointe shoes with stiletto heels

High-heeled pointe boots first appeared in Japan in the 1980s and immediately became popular among fetishists. This shoe combines appearance traditional ballet pointe shoes and high lace-up boots with high heels. The illusion is created that the person is standing on his toes, like a ballerina. It is almost impossible to walk in such shoes, and they are sold only in specialized stores

Chinese lotus shoes

Chinese lotus shoes and their victim. In China, there was one strange and at the same time frightening tradition - foot binding. Since childhood, girls’ feet were tightly tied with bandages to prevent them from growing, which is why over time the foot looked like an unopened lotus bud.

Shanghai fashionistas in the late 19th century and early 20th century wore similar lotus shoes with multiple heels.