For instance, many of these sites sold counterfeit sports clothing, designer shoes and handbags and even pirated exercise programs.
Lucrecia Chan of Fashion Poison blogs about her love of designer shoes and about battling with brain cancer.
Manufacturers of pretty designer shoes have largely forgotten or ignored the fact that baby boomers have disposable cash and are ready to spend.
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Maybe I am too frugal, but I now know many women who buy designer shoes and wear them only once or twice on special occasions.
Kohl's lately has been busy launching women's fashions from designer Vera Wang, shoes from skateboarder Tony Hawk and kitchenware from celebrity chef Bobby Flay.
In 1999, when Robert and Kelchak, the designer, spotted bowling-style shoes made by an edgy Spanish company called Camper, they quickly came up with a Skechers version.
It is easy, of course, for a designer who owns 100 pairs of shoes but Mr. Hardy believes that just 10 styles can cover almost any occasion for which a man needs to dress: "five to six pairs dressy, two to three casual, two sporty not counting sandals, " he says.
Even when picking up the tab ourselves, we share the belief that money spent shopping for shoes and scouring consignment stores for designer labels far outweighs the value of an ocean view or a private room.
Created from red satin shoes, the film's costume designer covered them in red sequins sewn onto fine chiffon.
Each of these contains a "collection" of seven or so shoes that are the work of one designer, or are pieces from a single collector, or are creations that share a theme or structural motif.
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Or, you can skip the brand names and get well-made, attractive clothes, shoes and handbags for a lot less than the designer labels.
French designer Christian Louboutin he of the red-soled shoes is planning to appeal a recent New York Court decision that allows rival company Yves Saint Laurent to continue its own scarlet-soled pumps.
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