Fanciful Footwear from London Fashion Week

London Fashion Week is in full swing with the Brits showcasing the best of their fashion for the upcoming Spring & Summer 2010 collections.

The shoes from London Fashion Week are definitely leaning towards the extreme.  Fur, feathers and metal are all showing up.  Unusual heels and carved platforms are parading down the runways.

Roksanda Ilinic went for feathers – lots and lots of feathers!

Underneath all that plumage, those metallic bronze booties are quite cute and wearable.

The Osman runway collection featured some extreme carved platforms:

We’ve seen other “heel-less” shoes before, but they really haven’t seemed to show up on store shelves.  So what’s the opinion?  Interesting runway look or can this actually work in the real world?

Basso & Brooke sent a combination of more traditional high heeled peep-toe mules and some architectural looking heels down their runway:

I love the little dashes of color, like the yellow soles and flashes of blue around the platforms.

images: Zuma Press