Planet of the Platforms: The Rise & Fall

There are some fashions that just won’t die, and most of them hail from the 60s and 70s. Bell-bottoms, PVC and fuchsia tights are all as stubborn as Styrofoam, doomed to repeat the same Sisyphean trend cycle: ascendance, eclipse and return. The most enduring example is the platform shoe, a style that refuses to be snuffed out, despite its status as […]