These shoes are hand made, limited editions by Noritaka Tatehana. Below is an image of the one offs especially made for Lady Gaga
It really is where architecture and maths meet fashion. It has to be the right strength wood and the foot has to remain down the body's line of center and those platforms must weigh a ton to counterbalance the weight coming through the heel. But props to Gaga for being able to walk on tiptoes in these things. All though they are almost like a development of the Nina Ricci gravity-defyers shown below again:
Ricci's are probably more (okay i know this sounds crazy) wearable. But I can imagine the hottest fashionista's trotting around fashion week in these for definite, where as the Tetahana shoes look just plain dangerous! Plus I am not a fan at all of the weird strawberry red, alien skin material they are made of.
I searched to page 114 of my tumblr just to find this amazing look so be grateful! Everything about this photo is perfection, it just so abstracted and the fact that it is (or is made to look like) a street style photo makes it ever more brilliant.
