Stella McCartney, Elyse Platform

Stella McCartney, Elyse Platform

Stella McCartney, Elyse Platform

Fashion’s necromantic tendencies - its compulsive need to to resurrect the dead - can be equal part revelation and regret. Some silhouettes require a respectful dormancy to build desire again, while others deserve to stay buried in the murky depths of a mothballed wardrobe. And yet, here we are, brushing off a shoe that once loomed large in the collective Tumblr consciousness: Stella McCartney ’s Elyse platform. From L-R: Kendall Jenner; Rihanna ©Getty

Yes, those shoes. The architectural, vegan brogues-on-stilts that looked part orthopaedic fantasy, part Spice Girls tour memorabilia. The kind of footwear that walked so Margiela’s Tabi boots could sprint through Tik Tok. And now,

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