Inside the Dreamhouse, girls dance around a 10-foot-tall diamond ring and look into cases featuring 6-inch, red-sequined, platform heels.

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Gambassi also developed a durable, sticky resin from a Para rubber tree plant, to bind the sole to the top of Brough's stiletto and platform heels.

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While Jim and the girl sorted themselves out downstairs, Kate was marching around the apartment in her red platform heels, shoving items into her purse and looking in the usual places for her keys.

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Instead, Ms. Vargas can usually be found in Helmut Lang T-shirts and leather leggings, platform Fendi heels and chunky Pamela Love jewelry.

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It was posted on the heels of an earlier column on social media becoming a mature platform.

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Cintamani, 36, interrupts the discussion on Singapore's economic environment, drawing attention to two men one in a three-piece black suit, and another in a futuristic-looking white top embellished with silver at its collar and reaching past his knees over skinny white pants with platform shoes and a woman in a white two-piece, loose-fitting suit with silver heels.

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