The FiFi Report 259

  • “I think one of the reasons that fashion editors and fashion people have reputations for being so mean is because their feet are killing them all the time. They’re just irritable because of that, even though they all swear up and down, “Manolos are really comfortable!” I don’t buy it. — T editor Alix Browne.
  • “I, for one, am over the mania for the high, high heel. Too many career women look like a herd of fashion beasts, aping one another in impractical shoes.” US Vogue’s Andre Leon Talley about the death of the towering heel in Style.com.
  • “I never go out in something that I am uncomfortable in, well, except shoes, and they’re torture. And that’s just something I deal with.” Diane Von Furstenberg.
  • “This was the first time you cried on camera and it wasn’t fake.” Spencer Pratt, after his wife Heidi Montag got emotional, on I’m A Celebrity, Get Me Out Of Here. …She was tortured. Her Manolos were killing her.
  • “Does he need them to protect himself from Naomi?” A guest comments when Naomi Campbell makes an entrance with her Russian billionaire boyfriend and his huge bodyguards. For her shoes.
  • “Thanks, Sugar Tits.” Brad Pitt, playfully addressing Mel Gibson after Gibson introduced him at the Spike TV Guys Choice Awards.
  • “I am very excited that David Beckham’s new campaign image was unveiled” says Giorgio Armani… (translation: thanks sugar tits)
  • “I’m the Carrie Bradshaw of pop music. I’m completely poor with a closet full of couture.” Lady Gaga… (Couture? She wouldn’t know couture if she fell over it. Please don’t torture me: If she is a celebrity then get me out of here.)
  • “Money doesn’t buy you happiness. But it buys you a big enough yacht to sail right up to it.” Johnny Depp, who owns a 156-ft yacht and a private Caribbean island, to Vanity Fair (and lots of fabulous shoes).