Platform Shoes

DUA LIPA CAN SIZE UP A ROOM QUICKLY

We have to admire Dua Lipa’s sense of balance. She’s wearing a Marc Jacobs sweater dress with platform shoes that look to be at least 8 or 10 inches tall! One shaky step and she could easily break an ankle. The singer is on her way to Anna Wintour’s pre-Met Gala party in NY and since Dua is already 5’8”, she will tower over most people at the event…perhaps giving her a social advantage.

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MILAN ITALY IS INVADED BY SUPERTALL MODELS

As if they aren’t tall enough already, models are clomping up and down the streets of Milan in huge platform boots because it happens to be Fashion Week. Seems like it’s Fashion Week SOMEWHERE all the time these days! Irina Shayk (Kanye’s ex) and Stella Maxwell (Kristen Stewart’s ex) are turning heads while shopping between jobs in the city…

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JENNIFER LOPEZ WALKS THE PLANK THE HARD WAY

Jennifer Lopez has no lack of courage as she hops out of a boat and teeters across a narrow wooden deck above the water in Venice – wearing 7 inch platforms. Lady Gaga would be impressed! She’s in Venice with her manager Benny Medina (no Ben in sight) to attend a big Dolce & Gabbana two-day fashion event. Wonder if Lady Gaga will also be there in similar footwear.

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PINK HAS AN EXCEPTIONAL SENSE OF BALANCE

Height-challenged Lady Gaga is only around 5 feet tall, so we can understand why she suffers in high platform shoes to look taller and more imposing. But Pink? Pink took her kids and some friends to dinner at Soho Malibu and everyone wore sneakers EXCEPT Pink. The 5’4” singer navigated the rather treacherous brick outside area in these Gaga-style gold platform shoes…

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LADY GAGA FLIRTS WITH DANGER

THIS is how Lady Gaga walked out of a business meeting in New York! We are NOT kidding! She managed to walk down the bumpy sidewalk unaided in those 12 inch platform shoes and she didn’t even wobble. Usually when we see her wearing this risky footwear she’s holding the arm of at least one man at some glamorous event. Can you imagine what would happen if she attempted to walk her two dogs wearing these shoes? This woman is not adverse to taking chances…

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NOBODY WALKS IN PLATFORMS BETTER THAN LADY GAGA

Lady Gaga might have walked out of her Rome hotel unrecognized if it weren’t for those astonishingly high platform shoes. It’s amazing that she isn’t hanging on to anyone or anything with those bumpy streets. Mariah Carey always needs several men to help her walk when she wears similar shoes. Gaga is In Italy filming her scandalous Gucci movie – it’s based on a book titled The House of Gucci: A Sensational Story of Murder, Madness, Glamour, and Greed. Gaga stars as Italian socialite Patrizia Reggiani, the ex-wife of Maurizio Gucci, grandson of the Gucci founder. Patrizia was tried and convicted of arranging the bloody assassination of her husband in 1995. Note that Gaga’s not wearing a single piece of Gucci – even her handbag is Valentino.

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DAVID ARQUETTE: GUYS IN PLATFORMS PART II

David Arquette, 48, has always been an adventurous dresser, and today he took a trip down memory lane back to the punk 80’s. He’s wearing plaid bondage pants (we don’t see enough of those!) two-tone creeper platform shoes, and a Versace inspired jacket. He looks like he’s dressed for a night at his club Bootsy Bellows, rather than breakfast with friends. Somebody should advise him to ditch the grey beard – or at least cover it up with a mask!

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KEVIN HART: PLATFORM SNEAKERS AREN’T ENOUGH!

Kevin Hart, 40, is only 5’4” and he’s trying to give himself a boost with platform sneakers, but he remains many inches shorter than his model wife Aniko, who is 5’7” and doesn’t hesitate to wear heels. She’s pregnant with their second child (Kevin has two from his first marriage) but he can afford a big family. Kevin was named “Richest Comedian” thanks to his 200 million dollar fortune. We think his height is an asset – makes him funnier…

Above, Kevin, Aniko, and friends are leaving Nobu in Malibu

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ROBERT DENIRO NEEDS THOSE EXTRA INCHES

Must be hard for observers to keep a straight face when Robert DeNiro films The Irishman wearing these high platforms. DeNiro’s character in the Scorsese film, is Frank “The Irishman“ Sheehan, the labor union mobster who killed the corrupt Teamsters Union President Jimmy Hoffa. Sheehan was 6’4” and towered over Hoffa, played by 5’7” Al Pacino. Martin Scorsese had a wardrobe of Tom Cruise style height enhancing footwear built for DeNiro.

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