ADVENT DAY 2: OH ALAIA!

Posted by Melanie Rickey, Fashion Editor at Large

Python and snakeskin heels £885 Alaia at Browns

Azzedine Alaia creates the world's most beautiful shoes. The same way Azzedine's clothes are sinuously body-conscious or angled to create new shapes around the body, so his shoes are languidly serpentine, simultaneously coiling about the foot and placing them on a pedestal. No woman can resist the charms of an Alaia shoe. Even Alaia shoe boxes are works of art. With these under your Christmas tree you will feel like Cinderella.

"Cinderella: [singing] A dream is a wish your heart makes when you're fast asleep. Whatever you wish for, you keep. Have faith in your dreams, and someday, your rainbow will come smiling through."

Check out this so bad its good mash up of Disney's Cinderella with some crazy dude rapping badly about shoes over the Glass Slipper scene.