October 19th, 2010

Go High or Go Home

Charlotte Olympia Dellal adores leopard print. She loves it so much that she wore leopard print shoes with a Giambattista Valli gown for her wedding this summer.

This cutting-edge cobbler designs shoes that stop traffic. If they’re not leopard print, they’re sparkly or stripey or made from some exotic skin. And they are always vertiginously high. A gold spider web adorns the sole of every shoe.

A globetrotting It Girl, Dellal studied at the Royal College of Fashion and Cordwainers in London and is a regular fixture in the society pages. Her sister, Alice, is a model and rock singer and her brother, Alex, is dating Charlotte Casiraghi, the granddaughter of Grace Kelly.

Shrinking violets need not apply.

At The Room at the Bay, 176 Yonge St., Toronto, 416-861-9111, www.thebay.com