Narciso Rodriguez and UGG Boots

May 20, 2010 - PRLog -- Call  him a master of form meets function, a thinking-woman’s designer, a die-hard  purist. But don’t use the s word when describing his clothes. Never mind the  fact that fans (and friends) such as Rachel Weisz, Claire Danes, Julianna  Margulies, and Sarah Jessica Parker rarely look hotter than when their curves  are poured into his razor-sharp designs—they’re sensual, yes, but sexy? That’s  never been Narciso Rodriguez’s goal. The designer says he’s “old-school,”  meaning that he doesn’t think the dress should ever overpower the woman. So if,  say, Salma Hayek should happen to look even more smoldering than usual in one  of his dresses, Rodriguez, ever the gentleman, would argue that’s because of  who the lady is, not what she wears, are they the  closest shoes to running barefoot or ugg tall boots at http://www.online-retailer.org/wholesale/Ultra-Tall-Ugg-Boots-c147_p1.html?
Barefoot running is on the rise, as it  should be. For many people, it is healthier and more enjoyable than running in  big clunky, supportive running shoes..
 Narciso  Rodriguez launched his label in 1997 and wasted no time cementing his look:  body-conscious, no-frills dresses and separates that take you from work to  cocktails but are decidedly not made with silly cocktail swillers in mind.  They’re often color-blocked in black, white, and red (though, yes, he also  loves color: offbeat hues like citrine, paprika, and celadon) and segmented  with visible seams—darts being another dirty word in his vocabulary. From the  start, his designs reflected the pared-down modernity of his former employer,  Calvin Klein, but with the slick edge (and, dare we say, sex appeal) of an  art-house aesthetic. They quickly established Rodriguez as the new face of  American minimalism—a position he arguably still occupies.
 
 Rodriguez  talks design with the rigor of a minimalist, focusing on line, shape, fabric,  and construction, and he can get so absorbed in his intellectual process that  he seems almost oblivious to how feminine and emotional the results can be. His  inspirations are high-minded: the architecture of Eero Saarinen and Oscar  Niemeyer, the sculpture of Richard Serra and Anish Kapoor. And his process owes  a debt to Russian Constructivism: For fall, his designs started out  one-dimensional, as abstract shapes—a balloon, a triangle—that he pieced  together (hence their graphic purity). Collections, he says, tend to derive  from a single instant in which he finds himself dumbstruck by the beauty of  something—say, a Barbara Hepworth sculpture, a Thomas Ruff photograph, or his  own photo of a boy sitting on a motorcycle with his helmet pushed back.
 And  yet, still youthful and soft-spoken at 49—to call the designer “unassuming”  would be an understatement—Rodriguez bears not a trace of the artistic snob.  “True design shouldn’t be limiting,” he says, and clothes shouldn’t be  uncomfortable. “I love T-shirts and things that move. Just because a dress is  structured, whether it’s cut close or loose, doesn’t mean it should feel  restrictive.”
The five fingers kso that I tried  are not only unique in their flexibility, they are the first shoe I have seen  that has five individual pockets for your toes. Firstly, this explains the name  Five Fingers, though, technically, a more precise name would be Vibram Five  Toes, but it doesn’t flow off the tongue quite as nicely.
 The benefit of the pockets for the toes is  that they allow the toes to flex and extend, approximating the toes complete  range of motion. This is great, as extension of the toes is limited in most  shoes. Extension of the toes is important to allow the tissues under the ball  of the foot to stiffen/tighten to absorb the force of impact on the ground and  the muscles contracture of extension helps pump swelling out of our feet (Finn Bojsen-Moller  & Larry Lamoreux 1979).
 (From a podiatrist’s perspective, one  downside of pockets is that people who were born with two toes fused together  cannot wear these ugg boots at http://www.online-retailer.org/wholesale/Sundance-II-Ugg-....)
 As I tested the Vibram Five Fingers KSO  shoes I was reminded of the story of the winner of the longest marathon ever  held in the U.S. The race was called the Bunion Derby in 1928 and it coursed  from Los Angeles to New York and took 84 days to complete. The winner, Andrew  (Andy) Payne, ran the 3,400 plus miles in a plain “rubber-soled canvas shoe.”  It is interesting that he ran this incredible distance in relatively simple  footwear (by modern standards).
 One has to wonder when seeing the  incredible distance run by Payne in his rubber-soled shoe and the success of  the Tarahumara in their flimsy sandals, if minimalist running shoes such as the  Vibram Five Fingers shoes are a better choice for runners’ footwear.  
 I enjoyed wearing the vibram fivefingers kso shoes and I would recommend them to those people who want to run barefoot  but want their feet to have some protection. As my podiatry colleague said,  “Running barefoot is good until you step on a rusty nail.” I am not sure Vibram  Five Fingers would protect you from a rusty nail (and perhaps, your average  running shoe would not either), but the Five Fingers shoe will provide some  defense against stones, pebbles and other debris, while giving your foot, ankle  and leg muscles a great work out!
 
Brazil,  where Rodriguez bought a home in Bahia in 2006, has proven fertile ground for  inspiration. It supplied the aha moment for fall: scubaesque coats in bonded  wool and silk neoprene and others cut in gray and white reversible double-face;  asymmetric dresses; and a watery black, gray, and rust silk print inspired by the  “mercury-like” finish of a friend’s spray-paint work. “It was a very simple  idea,” Rodriguez says. “I took photographs of people I was following in Rio. At  home, I printed them and turned them upside down. Shazam! There were the curves  on the dress.” Shazam? Rodriguez still describes his work with childlike  enthusiasm, tending to modestly gloss over his own technical feats. But process  is always at the front of his mind. He describes an orange dress from fall, an  origami of collapsed circles, boxes, and triangles inspired by the shadows in  the Rio photos: “I started cutting away from the fabric, against the grain, and  suddenly I had these shapes—the collapsed circles created volume, and these  tonal shadows added volume on top of that.” He catches himself. “Okay, okay,  it’s not that simple. It’s actually quite complex—but it starts out simple.”

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