After coming together for the shoes featured in Kanye West’s first runway collection, West and Italian shoemaker Giuseppe Zanotti came together again and designed a pair of white sandals, inspired by his album, “Cruel Summer,” which featured white wings.  The pair shown above, which we first featured in October, is now available at Collette.

High-fashion minimalism has been a leading trend on the runways for at least a few seasons, a look that kicked into high gear with Celine’s Autumn 2012 runway. For the latest “Weekly Outfit,” we pay tribute to the trend with an array of lux pieces that we are currently lusting after. Clean edges and heavy duty leather, we salute you.

I’m really loving where women’s fashion sandals, especially flats, are these days trend-wise. If you think back on the desert were lost in a mere two or three seasons ago when rubber flip-flops dominated and Havainos were a major fashion statement, the choices in comparison now are borderline spectacular, and I have a felling that Spring 2009 promises to be even more creative and fun. While at Magic, I photographed some sandals that I liked. There were so many more that I didn’t get a chance to snap for whatever reason (like the pair of Gucci thongs that didn’t make it ’cause my dumb battery ran out!)

^^These are Leah McSweeney’s of MTTM in her Guiseppe Zanotti flower flats. I featured these in the post on the brand, but you know me.

More to the right….

As I was headed to dinner with a friend to grab a quick bite before flying out of Las Vagas last week, I was stopped in my tracks by the Guiseppe Zanotti store. I had heard about it opening a shop in Sin City but had never seen it. I was flat out DYING to go in and look around, but I knew a two-minute run through of the store would end up be more painful than pleasurable so I just stood there staring for a couple of minutes and then thankfully remembered to pull out my camera and grab a couple of shots before I left. This was the only one that came out clearly:

^^For Alpha Dog females only!

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