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Hollywood is a strange and secretive hinterland where celebrities—or perhaps their stylists—move quickly to push the same hyper-specific fashion items in quick succession. And over the past fortnight, that is what seems to have happened with the cork wedge: a shoe synonymous with people who wear maxi-dresses at local bake sales. Among this summer’s apologists are Catherine-Zeta Jones, Amal Clooney, Lily-Rose Depp, Nicola Peltz Beckham, and Katie Holmes.
With a woven basket bag slung across her torso, the latter hit the pavements of New York this weekend in an inconspicuous APC peep-toed slab, which is to say: not all wedges are made equal. Unlike Jones and Clooney and Peltz Beckham—whose vertiginous shoes telegraphed a jet-set glamour with broderie anglaise two pieces and chiffon gowns—Holmes and Depp have worn them with faded t-shirts and jeans while running errands. It looks a little more informal, a little less ‘I’m the protagonist of a whodunit based in Portofino’ than the high-octane versions usually worn at all-inclusive hotels.
This is perhaps the logical conclusion of all those controversial shoes that have been mainstreamed over recent years. In contrast to Victoria Beckham’s Croots and Naomi Campbell’s balloon heels, these wedges are not trying to be perceived as ironic or outrageous. They are just a little plain, which is perhaps the most anti-fashion statement a person can make.
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