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Image: Instagram @balenciaga<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

We’re at the pointy end of fashion week<\/a>\u2014the last few days of Paris, where the biggest shows are debuting in rapid succession. There’s an overload of beautiful clothes, and it can be a challenge for designers to make a statement that stands out from all the (exquisitely tailored) noise. Balenciaga, under the helm of Georgian phenom Demna Gvasalia, always manage to do just that. Last season it was the post-apocalyptic rave set, the season before it was that *that* gold dress. This year? It’s the heeled hotel slipper.<\/p>\n

No stranger to a cult accessory (he made his name spinning DHL tees and BIC lighter-heeled boots into fashion gold at Vetements<\/a> after all), Gvasalia really pushed the boat out this season, with the creation of fluffy kitten mules, clearly inspired by the kind of complimentary slippers you receive at mid-priced hotels and spas. The shoes featured prominently throughout the collection, flat for men, heeled for women, available in white or a bold shade of crimson, emblazoned with the Balenciaga logo.<\/p>\n

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Image: Balenciaga<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Call us fashion tragics, but we are wholly on board with this trend. After six months spent largely housebound, I have long felt that women need an ‘in between’ period before we can truly embrace the outside world (and the world of heels) again. Of the few women attending Paris and Milan Fashion Week this season, very<\/em> few women were wearing heels. Heels haven’t featured in most collections\u2014at Balmain models walked barefoot<\/a>, and at Valentino Pierpaolo Piccioli revamped the iconic ‘Rockstud’<\/a> into a covetable flat sandal.<\/p>\n

We aren’t quite ready for towering stilettos or pinching pumps\u2014and who knows, maybe we never will be again? But soft shearling slippers, with the addition of a three-inch heel for a little extra height? That’s the kind of pandemic-inspired innovation we can get behind.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26240,"featured_media":2509,"template":"","format":"standard","categories":[17,15,16],"yoast_head":"\nBalenciaga Wants You Wear Heeled Hotel Slippers<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Balenciaga have debuted 2021's first cult item: heeled hotel slippers, during their spring summer '21 show in Paris. 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