TOMS Shoes is one of our favorite brands here at Fantastic Toe, not only because of their cute and casual footwear and apparel, but also because of their very socially responsible one-for-one policy. For every pair of TOMS shoes you buy, TOMS gives away a pair of shoes to a child in need. That is just really cool.

So, we’re always happy to write about TOMS – but, we were particularly excited today when we saw their newest footwear offering, the Cordones. These represent a bit of a stylistic break from their previous styles, and are absolutely adorable! They’re available in three styles – including the gray Barletta, the two-tone Aira, and the black Cortazar – and you can wear them with or without laces. (I actually prefer them without.)

Wouldn’t they look great paired with a flouncy skirt or a pair of cropped pants? Preppy, yes, but they’re just edgy enough to also be kinda funky. Seems like the ideal shoes to wear when you’re bopping around town Saturday morning doing your errands.

So, click on over to TOMS Shoes today, shop the new selection of Cordones (or their other shoes or apparel), and, best of all, help a needy kid out with your purchase.

I have heard with admiring submission the experience of the lady who declared that the sense of being well-dressed gives a feeling of inward tranquility, which religion is powerless to bestow.

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

Fashions, after all, are only induced epidemics.

-George Bernard Shaw

Monday, September 28…Lots of news and pictures from London and Milan Fashion Weeks: Elle gives us the lowdown on the fabulous footwear shown in London, while Style.com handles the shoes from Milan: Part I; Part Deux…Donatella Versace outdoes herself with the dazzling footwear on her Milan runway…Legendary Italian brand Brunello Cucinelli launches its first spring/summer footwear collection…Yabba-dabba-doo!…Meadham Kirchhoff adorn runway shoes with “electroplated resin adornments” created by Jordan Askill…If you want to know what the experts thought of the London and Milan shoes, check out Suzy Menkes and Robin Givhan…Charlotte Dellal, the designer behind the usually-vertiginous Charlotte Olympia brand, shocks the fashion world by including flats in her spring collection…Blue is emerging as the color of choice for shoes and accessories…File this under “Gak”: Three-year-old Suri Cruise steps out in kitten heels…Influential rabbi bans Crocs for Yom Kippur, a day of suffering, for being too comfortable…Hunter is launching a competition to find the chicest Wellington wearer…Wow…Jimmy Choo launches Choo 24/7, a capsule collection of 28 classic styles, with updated lasts, colors, and finishes…Tomorrow night, Stuart Weitzman is throwing the first annual Serve to Save tournament at Susan Sarandon’s ping-pong club (who knew?). Proceeds benefit ovarian cancer research…The perfect accessory for your Cinderella Halloween costume perhaps? Martin Margiela offers $2580 glass slippers…Wow. OK…Gwyneth Paltrow ushers in the lug-heel trend…Struggling luxury retailer Saks is seeing success with their new footwear strategy.

Luxury must be comfortable, otherwise it is not luxury.

-Coco Chanel

I own 5,000 pairs of shoes. It’s mad.

-Lindsay Lohan