Spring-Summer Shoe Fashion Trends 2009

Posted on September 7th, 2009 under Articles, Trends

With spring forecast to come early this year, it’s time to start thinking about what women everywhere (and a few men) all love to think about – SHOES! With warmer weather on its way we can trade in our heavy winter boots, clunky heels, and lace up booties for strappy sandals, daring platforms and sexy stilettos. So let’s have a quick peek at what Spring 2009 Shoe Trends have in store for us.

Firstly, let’s look at colour! Although neutral beige and nude tones are sure to abound, if you want to add a splash of colour to your look go for bright oranges, magentas, teals, pinks, reds and metallics are the colours to go for. These hot little numbers (pictured) by Nine West are available in stores from mid-August.

Look for sandals with subtle detailing this spring/summer. I’m a big fan of these ones (pictured) from BANK with their delicately beaded strands that wrap around the ankle. They also have a zipper at the back to make getting them on and off simple, and the fit perfect.

Militaristic buckles and metallic trimmings that dominated winter shoe fashion will carry through to spring, paired with bold colours and atop platforms almost high enough to warrant vertigo. Take a peek at some real shoeart, check out Gucci’s 2009 Spring Collection to inspire this look. I like these (pictured) ones from Tony Bianco; the heel itself will add an extra 15cm to your height… that is if you can stand in them, let alone walk!

Socks & Sandals? A fashion trend? I am a little skeptical about this one and if it does make it as a mainstream trend I am pretty confident that I’ll be avoiding it for fear of embarrassing photographic evidence of me looking like a crazy woman once this fad falls out of favour. Nonetheless, in their 2009 Spring Collection, Marni boldly paired strong, bright platforms with striped knee-high socks. Love the shoes; not sure about the socks.

With spring still a month away we are sure to have more spring shoe trends, so to keep up to date with the latest trends subscribe to this page’s RSS feed or add us to your favourites!