Friday, May 7, 2010
Highest Heel Sandals
- world record
set by
designer Mihai Albu
BUCHAREST, Romania -- Romanian designer Mihai
Albu
has come out with a new pair of hand-crafted
sandals that increase a woman's height by 12 inches (31 centimeters),
are selling for up to $1,525 (euro1,200) and sets the world
record for the Highest
Heel Sandals
. 
Photo: Romanian shoe designer Mihai Albu
is scaling new heights with his 12-inch heels, the latest
in a series of skyscraper shoes by the former architect in
line with international fashion trend for incredibly high
heels. AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda ( enlarge
photo
)
It blends high-tech architecture with design
and only comes in small sizes. "If a woman is 5 foot 9 (175
centimeters), she'd be towering above everyone if she wore
these," he said.
"Heels have an advantage because
(many women) don't have long legs," said Mihai
Albu
, who's had a 20-year love affair making stilettos.
"They reposition the waist," he said in an interview for the
AP.
The
new World's Highest Heel Sandals
are being compared
to skyscrapers because of their towering heels. High heels
have become fashionable, but Albu's are at least twice the
height of ones that international designers have been flirting
with for several years.
Albu, a former architect, blends math, architecture
and art in his creations, which are more foot sculpture than
regular footwear. He uses French leather and encrusts it with
jewels, feathers, mirrors, and taps into Romanian women's
perennial love affair with high heels.
Albu has designed shoes with three
heels (two of which are decorative, of course), a pair of
boots that resemble glass vases, and “unicorn-like” boots
with a heel in the front. 
Photo: The latest creations from Romanian
‘shoe architect’ Mihai Albu, which cost up to £1,100, are
made of leather, peacock feathers, jewels and mirrors. ( enlarge
photo
)
His latest creation, the 12.2 inch heel
sandal, is a construction of three black wedge sandals.
Despite the price, Albu says he has received
dozens of orders for his new sandals from Romania's well-heeled.
"I am creating a constructed chaos," he said,
describing his extravagant sandals in architectural terms.
Albu draws inspiration from Romanian
sculptor Constantin Brancusi and Spanish architect Antonio
Gaudi, and he never shops at the mall.
"I keep an eye on major shoe designers,
so I know what not to make," he joked, although his latest
creations follow the latest trend for higher and higher heels.
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Friday, May 7, 2010
