I feel like I'm encroaching on dear Imelda's territory but seeing as he's altogether quite taken up by Slavic beauties and boxes and boxes of designer shoe gorge, I'm hoping he'll allow me the pleasure of posting these images of Liberty's new shoe department... except who wants to use a dull name like 'shoe department'...nay, it's the House of Heels.   When people send me emails asking about shops in London, the one department store that I have to always reccommend is Liberty and I've sung its praises enough but I'll say it again... it is a unique interior space that instills a sense of calm in me and doesn't make me fraught or sweaty (see Harvey Nichols or Selfridges...I blame it on the sheer number of shoppers...).  This House of Heels is set up like a maze of rooms consisting of a boudoir-like drawing room, a 'Garden Room', a bedroom all fully furnished, housing shoes from all the expected bigwigs of Azzedine Alaia, Balenciaga, Miu Miu, Burberry, Stella McCartney, Alexander McQueen and two no-longer-up-and-coming firm Brit faves Nicholas Kirkwood and Rupert Sanderson...   

I haven't yet been for fear of losing all sense of financial stability when I get to the cash register and decide to take ten pairs of shoes at once but if I do, I shall hopefully walk through at a leisurely pace as the the name 'House of Heels' suggests I shouldn't be harried through, doing quick-glances at shelves and then moving on swiftly because somebody behind you is silently willing you to get a move on (that would be you Selfridges...).

In particular I've eyeing these ones up as they are coming rather unexpectedly from Rupert Sanderson's AW08-9 collection where he's done a heeled creeper shoe... I am actually going to be buying some creepers for fall but I might be looking down at my own feet and look at these thinking my own creepers are somewhat the poorer, uglier cousin.  We shall see whether that in turn gives something of a shoe complex... as if I don't have enough problems at hand...