This past weekend, Kylie Jenner honored her closest friend Stassie Karanikolaou’s 27th birthday. Zoom closer, though, and it appears that she was paying tribute to an even more treasured friend: the thong-toed, promiscuous stiletto
In a Los Angeles nightclub this past weekend, Kylie Jenner celebrated the 27th birthday of Stassie Karanikolaou, her professional best friend and TikTok mukbang colleague. But if you look closely at the several pictures that have been making the rounds from that True Religion and Grey Goose-sponsored event, it appears Jenner was maybe paying tribute to an even more treasured friend: the lustful, thong-toed stiletto.
She paired her bodycon dress by Defaïence, which had diagonal ruches, with an oversized leather jacket, and Sergio Rossi’s Alocasia kitten heels, which have French-tipped toes spread between circulation-stemming straps. These are more like lingerie for the feet than actual shoes, much like the large toe-baring Sportmax boots she wore to Paris Fashion Week or the Jacquemus knee-highs she wore for a paparazzi walk in March. Wearing these heels on a date requires the same amount of pre-date primping as your sexiest G-strings. Skin moisturised, heels descaled, and nails polished.
Also see: The interpretation of Pleasers by Simone Rocha and Jean Paul Gaultier, or the anatomical, trompe l’oeil Schiaparelli pumps that have become Kylie’s go-to shoes during couture week. All of this is a part of a new seduction that surfaced on the catwalks this season, as one-digit socks and toe-cleavaged loafers were worn to subtly highlight the human toe as an erogenous zone. Here is a mental aphrodisiac that evokes feelings of both disgust and curiosity. There’s a thrill of so-wrong-it’s-right-ness. As the Kardashian with the most daring sense of style, Kylie knows how to work a weird shoe nearly as well as a bodycon dress that hugs the hips.
