British luxurious shoemaker Jimmy Choo, which has spent the previous 40-ish years slipping handmade heels on anybody from Princess Diana to new brides, lately introduced a collaboration with Sailor Moon creator Naoko Takeuchi. The capsule assortment follows up Jimmy Choo’s 2022 collaboration with Takeuchi—a pair of $15,000 bespoke, fuschia boots, ornamented with 19,000 Swarovski crystals—and contains pumps, boots, and baggage impressed by the Sailor Troopers and their magical black cat Luna. And if anybody has a pair grand mendacity round, I want to buy a few of it when it’s launched on Valentine’s Day, please.
Are you seeing these footwear? We’ve acquired stretched jersey boots, wealthy pink like a berry vodka, noticed with crystal, heels little sufficient with the intention to run away like crybaby Usagi Tsukino, Sailor Moon. I really like the heavy sq. heel on the fake leather-based ode to child blue Sailor Mercury, so sturdy, I might absolutely channel its steadfast power into actually studying how to make use of a pc.
Sailor Moon, a manga starting in 1991 and anime franchise since 1992, is about 14-year-old whiner Usagi’s “[fight] for love and for justice” together with the remainder of the Sailor Guardians, who all channel celestial, superhuman powers to defend and defend. The sequence is extraordinarily trendy, with each manga and anime characters steadily present in head-to-toe ‘90s Chanel, Dior, and scorpion-dark Thierry Mugler. The Sailors’ metamorphoses from common ladies to galactic Guardians are additionally based mostly on their outfits, beginning with the footwear that seem on their ft in bursts of heavenly mild.
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“The notion of transformation through vogue is central to Naoko Takeuchi, and garments play a significant position within the identification of her tremendous heroines, particularly their footwear, probably the most highly effective transformer you’ll be able to step into,” Jimmy Choo inventive director Sandra Choi mentioned in a press launch. Whereas I’d argue as a substitute that nothing is as transformative as embracing your persona—Sailor Moon’s major enchantment, I feel, is her willingness to be susceptible and fallible—and I’d all the time advocate everybody buys stuff thoughtfully and slowly, I’m not proof against the impulse to appear like a cute lady in an anime.
Jimmy Choo’s collaboration touchdown web page will keep clean, frighteningly clean, till Valentine’s Day, however the Sailor Moon web site signifies costs go from 57,200 yen, or about $430, for a slim Sailor Guardians pockets to 1,975,600 yen, round $1,500, for these sparkly Sailor Moon boots. So, on account of my lease, I can’t be shopping for them. You’d, although, should you actually cherished me.