The Toe Zone Shoe Blog on Fantastic Toe

There is something almost spiritual about the shoe in terms of how it grounds you.

-Lindie Ward, curator of design, history and society at Sydney’s Powerhouse Museum

I think they have become vulgar and unwalkable. They are figments of runway imagination — it’s like, how high can they go? They’ve become cartoony.

-Designer Warren Edwards, on this season’s extreme heels

I used to wear heels because I wanted to show people I wasn’t ashamed of being tall. But I don’t wear them any more because you don’t have to wear heels to be beautiful.

-Elle Macpherson

I was born in high heels and I’ve worn them ever since.

-Helena Christensen

I can’t wear flat shoes. My feet repel them.

-Mariah Carey

I guess they’re a model’s flip-flops, aren’t they?

-Model Coco Rocha, on her towering platform wedges by Stella McCartney