ld tuttle is probably my favorite maker of shoes, and i am a loyal, loyal follower/buyer/worshipper. i first discovered them, actually, through one of my bosses when i was working at an art gallery in chelsea a while back. she always had the best shoes on and at first i just thought she was a really good shopper or something. good for you! i noticed her shoes were always so sculptural and contemporary (like the true gallerina that she is) and didn't have all the fuss and gross-ness that comes with some other designer brand shoes. haha, what i mean to say is that her shoes were never screaming "im a designer shoe" and i could never really pinpoint where i had seen them before. they were so original. after weeks of eavesdropping i found out that she got her shoes from her sister, who designs ld tuttle! i know its just a shoe but i cannot stop praising ld tuttle. there are so many elements and references involved and they're all in tune with what we're interested in right now. they're not girly, like oooh im wearing heals kind of girly, they've got direction and a sense of dignity to them. futuristic but really functional and experimental without pretense. so many designers interpret that ancient-warrior vibe through various renditions of the gladiator sandal, but i think ld tuttle does it with a little more edge. just a tad bit more of the primitive and a whole lot more craftsmanship. you know cuz when you hold them, you're like 'mm that feels like a good shoe...' i think they look like prehistoric cyborgs. and the heals are always so sculptural and unique. like a leebul sculpture:
they've got a really contemporary edge, something i feel a lot of other designers ignore. a lot of shoes these days are really beautiful and take art and sculpture into consideration. but only because that's the thing to do nowadays.
I'll post pictures of my own ever expanding collection soon. ld tuttle has a slideshow of past collections and they are def worth checking out. they also did a collabo with VPL recently and also urban outfitters called colonial madness. the VPL shoe i found on creatures of comfort are so... beautiful....
(images all from google and creatures of comfort)
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