Fashionable sandals and sandals spring-summer 2016

Shoes continue to reflect our lifestyle and are a social marker for everyone around us. Fashionistas can be sure - the collection of spring-summer -2016 summer shoes - sandals and sandals will provide them with a huge range of choices.

New purchase can be high-heeled or wedge sandals, clogs or mules, or just sandals in men's style.

Sandals. They can be on a thin sole without a heel, on a high and flat platform, on high heels, with and without a heel, with many weaves and only two or three straps. And these are all sandals. This includes those that we call sandals and those that are called "gladiators".

By the 1930s, sandals were the name given to any shoe, with or without a heel, as long as it exposed the top of the foot. But initially the sandals were just a solid sole that covered the entire foot and were attached to it with straps.

Photo above - Sophia Webster, Antonio Berardi
Photo below - Belstaff, Holly Fulton

In the spring-summer 2016 collection, sandals on a solid and flat platform in a masculine style have become the trend of the new season. It is this type of sandals that have a decor reduced to minimalism - two or three wide straps and a flat sole.

Burberry prorsum

Christopher Raeburn, Margaret Howell
Paul Smith, Alberta Ferretti

But most girls still prefer feminine sandals. You can see such sandals in the collections of Laura Biagiotti, Chloe, Sophia Webster, Alberta Ferretti. They are decorated with decorative straps, textiles, rhinestones and other decorative elements.

Laura Biagiotti, Chloe
Isabel Marant, Sophia Webster

In the new season 2016 as well as once in 1941, at the peak of popularity sandals or sandals on a powerful platform.

The fashion history of the platform is changeable - it appeared and disappeared. Now we will not recall the entire history of the platform, we will only note its peaks of popularity - these were the 40s, 70s and 80s.

In the 90s of the last century, the platform appeared in a grandiose form, the sole on the platform was combined with a wide heel. In the 2000s, high and thin platform heels gave the shoe sophistication, femininity and elegance. The wedge sole was interpreted along with the high platform.

In the spring-summer 2016 season, the platform and wedge heel are again at the peak of their popularity. The high, thin heel has not disappeared, but the designers opted for sandals on a powerful platform with a wide heel. The wedge remains at different heights.

Gucci, Laura Biagiotti
Orla Kiely, Carven

High-heeled or wedge sandals, clogs, mules or menswear sandals can be a good buy. While mules once symbolized the glitz of vintage Hollywood and clogs are work shoes, modern fashion is now redefining what has already happened, recalling the past and creating new proportions.

Fausto Puglisi, Bottega Veneta
Reem Acra, Alexander McQueen

Shoe materials are varied and amazing - from reptile skin to transparent plastic, the color is at your discretion.

Lie Sangbong, Louis Vuitton
Ralph Lauren, Christopher Kane

The décor of summer shoes is dominated by straps, buckles and a variety of weaves created by the imagination of designers from narrow and wide, and sometimes very wide straps. The weaves cover the leg with textile ribbons, leather, tied around the leg or fastened with buckles, draw fantasy patterns or the laconic letter T on the feet. A bare foot entangled with straps looks quite erotic. Ankle straps remain a trend in the new season.

Gucci, John Richmond
Philipp Plein, Ermanno Scervino


Fendi, Guy Laroche
Rag & Bone, Barbara Bui

New warm season 2016 it is also rich in a variety of hybrid shoes, which are related to sandals and sandals, especially ankle boots suggest a relationship with sandals, or maybe vice versa ...

Peter Pilotto, Burberry Prorsum

Choose summer shoes of any style, with heels - from tall, slender heels to a wide powerful platform, from a straight column to a heel that is minimized. The main thing is that you feel confident in it, because good shoes can work wonders.