VIVIENNE WESTWOOD BABY!!! – Daily Style
My life is now complete. I officially own the gorgeous Vivienne Westwood for Melissa mary-janes. They were released in Australia about two weeks ago and despite giving some serious loving to my local Melissa stockists none of them managed to secure the line at their store so I was reduced to emailing the manager of Melissa Australia and begging her to save me some black size forties. She very kindly gave me a heads-up email the second the shoes were on line so I wouldn’t miss out. I spent a very stressful Wednesday evening refreshing the Melissa store page like a woman possessed while simultaneously making the Ridiculously Out of Proportion Jungle Cake for Mr Smaggle’s birthday. I got Vienna cream icing all over my Macbook. Well I was panicked! I imagined throngs of gorgeous ladies refreshing their pages through out the land, trying to beat me to the dream shoes. I needn’t have bothered. Not because the shoes are not everything I expected (they are exceptional – divinity in footwear) but because clearly no-one cared about the release of the shoes except for me. I thought that I would be up for a serious fight. I figured that a Vivienne Westwood design is the girl equivalent of the release of the Iphone - riots, crazy crowds and people camping for weeks outside the store. No such thing occurred. I paced around the house douche-like trying to secure the object of my footwear fantasies before they sold out and disappointingly they are still available. In my size and colour. And every other size and colour. Excuse me for being bitter but I was looking forward to the challenge. I’ve never lined up for hard-core concert tickets or slept outside a store before a sale. I wanted to show Vivienne and Melissa that I love them by publicly acting like a pleather junkie in need of a fix. Oh well. I guess the constant wearing and worshipping of the dream shoes will have to suffice. Aren’t they beautiful? Mama Smaggle had to confiscate them last night because I tried to wear them to bed…
* Grey wool tights from my school uniform
* Dress from Big W
* Cardigan from Giovanni
* Obi belt thrifted
* Cake necklace from Robin’s Jewellery Box
Love Lady Smaggle
xxx
Those shoes are very lovely – but not as lovely as the delighted look on your face! Also loving the tights/cardi combo.
How lovely! I think this outfit channels Vivien’s aesthetic wonderfully, and not just because of those amazing shoes. The grey-white-grey of the outfit reall looks fantastic on you Lady S!
They are great shoes. The shininess, the Vivienne Westwoodness… You are the most styling girl in Australia.
Well, the rest of Australia might be too cool for a Vivvy W internet shoe buying frenzy – but I was very impressed at your fervour. And I can empathize entirely. Don’t let imaginings of the joyless shrugging of others spoil your fantastic swag – I’d be bankrupting myself buying up all the other colours too!
I thought I recognized those!
new melissa’s incite a similar reaction in me. i also try to sleep with mine on
(the most recent purchase being the ultrawedge – DIVINE!)
did you speak to Maree? She’s a doll
omg they’re awesome!!!
I saw them in store at FAT GPO in Melbourne yesterday. I have wanted some for ages and my hubby had promised me a present so I showed my hubby who grunted at me and walked away. He doesn’t like them. Wahhhhh. I don’t have enough money myself right now (hence the ebay sale over at my blog) but maybe soon if the ebay thing goes ok, lol. I do already have 1 pair of Melissa shoes and they are so comfy, I know for sure I can walk in those.
You look adorable. I love the shoes.
My friends will mock too, but they don’t understand that drinking beers and smoking cigarettes cost them serious money! What extravagances those habits are! And movies, sports events, etc. It’s nice the internet can connect people of similar personalities despite physical distance!
Ooh the mary-janes are lovely, such a glossy patent!
Damn I LOVE those shoes in an inarticulate way – love love love love love – and I want a pair. I want a red pair. And a cream pair! I want I want I want them NOW.
ahem. excuse me.
Very cool indeed, I’ve been wondering how to get my hands on a pair!
Love this outfit!
Loving them with the grey tights…
Those shoes are fantastic and very much worth phoning and emailing around for!
ooh lucky you!!!! i really wanted those!!! they look great with your outfit too.
I’m sorry there was no fight!
It kind of reminds me when I’m bidding on something on ebay and I nervously wait out the last minutes refreshing over and over, convinced someone is scheming to bid outrageously high near the last seconds and then… kinda have the wind taken away when it ends, i win, and i realize it wasn’t as coveted as I thought.
Isn’t success sweet? Even if it meant a slightly unnecessary mini-meltdown? (I’ve so been there.) The outfit you’ve built around your new darlings is perfect, as is your gleeful expression.
oh, they’re gorgeous!
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Nadist – I just can’t hide joy like that!
Grant – He thank you my love!
Lauren – Well how could not with these shoes?
E – I’m totally tempted. They are ridiculously comfortable and I’m considering leaving Mr Smaggle for them
Annie – Do you have them too?
Josephine – I totally want the wedges! Would think I was weird if I wanted them in Green?
Selina – Yes they are. I’m stoked.
Hayley – Oh that’s divorce material as far as I’m concerned.
The Clothes Horse – I agree! Although I must admit that I am movie girl. But I’m very selective.
She’s Dressing Up – I terrified them losing their shine! i’ve never been so protective over a pair of shoes in my life.
Marianne – THAT’S WHAT I WAS LIKE! The only cure is to buy them. Seriously.
Lady Melbourne – You should have no trouble getting them in Melbourne!
Rollergirl – They actually my old school tights.
Ambika – They totally where. And my Macbook didn’t mind the icing too much.
Gilda –
Dana – I know! I just need the fight sometimes.
Sal – Oh I am so gleeful! I’m glad that it’s so apparent!
Gem – And so ridiculously comfortable.
yay – I am so happy for you they are beautiful.