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Northshore October 2025
  Cinderella and Carrie Bradshaw knew that the right pair of shoes could change your life. Shoes, more than any other thing we wear, embody meaning, status, sex appeal, style, and conflict. They carry us over all kinds of surfaces and can make us look seductive and fabulously invincible, but they can also hurt like the dickens. Consider the shoes designed by Christian Louboutin and photographed by David Lynch in 2007 for the photo essay “Fetish”: Exquisitely crafted, they render the female wearer unable to walk. Fetish objects with disturbing associations, they incorporate beauty, sadism, sexual allusion, and fashion.
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