The Fashion Bomb | by anova.writer@gmail.com (Adriana) | Thu, Oct 9
Thu, Oct 9
Coco Chanel famously remarked that fashion begins from the bottom up. While the bottom she referred to was the streets, for this post we're going to reinterpret it to mean the shoes (I think CC would understand and even encourage it), oui?Instead of our usual, clothes-focused show review...
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