Dancing with the Stars/Laguna Beach alumni hit TV show star Kristin Cavallari is no slouch when it comes to fashion. The mother of one has been busy crafting everyday and accessible footwear at Chinese Laundry. The collaboration started sometime last year with the fall 2012 collection which are long sold out by now. She unveiled her spring collection for the label yesterday with DJ Neil on the turn table and innovative Drink Stack wine take away “cups” piled high for press members to help themselves.

Kristin’s collection boost a wide range of styles at enviable price points starting at about $60, chop change for most of you. Her recent fall collection had boots and booties while her spring collection features some of the season’s favorite pastel colors in wedges and sandals, including her choice of lavender. She begs to differ from the “reigning” black & white seen at every corner. Her collection actually stands out, more user friendly and approachable –to our surprise. For her upcoming fall 2013 collection for Chinese Laundry, she is looking into deep rich tones of red and not the usual dull black and grey most of you might already be used to for the season. But then again, red would be appropriate for the holiday season.

Miss USA, Nana Meriwether and Miss Teen USA Logan West turned up at the event to support Kristin and of course for Chinese Laundry, a label that also sponsors the Miss Universe Organization, one of Donald Trumps many business ventures. The beauty queens gushed about their collection of shoes from the label. Between the 2 ladies, they own about 120 pairs of Chinese Laundry shoes alone! To our surprise, we actually found some of the label’s shoes to be quite comfortable, lightweight and well made, especially some of their spring collection featured farther below.

In true Shoeholics style, Kristin Cavallari has about 100 pairs of shoes in her closet to date. She emphasized the need for a “revolving door” clean up, that is to have older shoes churned out for incoming and much needed new pairs. So at no given time has she actually exceeded the 100 pairs. Her favorite silhouette of shoes are booties (aka ankle boots) and preferring to wear no higher than 7 inches (on platforms that is).  However, after having her first baby, she feels the constant need for flat shoes, of which she has about 10 pairs so far –a perfect choice to be able to run after her toddler when the need arises.

Not too long ago, Kristin debuted her jewelry line with GlamBoutique & Kitson, partnering with Pascal Mouawad but has no plans to start a whole line of lifestyle products. She favors a handbag line in the near future but no plans for a clothing line –yet.

Preview some of the images from her spring collection below, most of which should be hitting the stores right about now.

 

 

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