We met this lovely lady on her way to get hitched. Notice her glittery red Valentino shoes. It was definitely something outside the box of wearing white on white. We admired that about her, a fashion forward bride. KUDOS for the brave move. She just might single handedly start a bridal trend that will trigger us posting colored
on our bridal shoes page. This is not a bold move you see everyday (or at all) by brides. She looked so adorable! Congratulations to you and your beau! Hip! Hip! Hooray!

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Right now, it’s all about the color blocking fashion trend

Even if you’ve been living under a rock and haven’t heard about Color Blocking, this summer’s hot new style statement you are likely to have seen this profusion of bright, contrasting colors in clothes and shoes looking out at you from fashion magazines, TV and other media.

Color blocking is all the rage this summer

Color Blocking is, as the name suggests, bright bands or blocks of solid colors worn to create eye-catching contrasts – think neon yellow with lime green and white in a dress; a blouse where fuchsia is teamed with orange, or sky high platforms in pink, yellow and turquoise.

So if you see a top with a bright yellow bodice and startling green sleeves, hot pants in red, white and blue, a magenta shirt topped by a jade green coat, a maillot swimsuit in brown, hot pink and baby pink, or a purple and red shift dress with mauve shoes, it’s probably all about the color blocking trend that’s taken the fashion world by storm.  Same concept applies to shoes!

Color blocking is finding its way into the makeup palette as well so you can dress up your eyes in bright blue, paint your lips a startling red and top off your look with tangerine nails. And then there are the accessories – colorful bangles, bracelets and earrings, vivid colored lightweight jackets, and jewel colored bags add to the whole look.

How to color block

• Ø Be bold and think outside the box – you may be surprised at what you can carry off.
• Ø You can create interesting contrasts even with a single colored dress and vibrantly contrasting shoes, bag, or a jaunty scarf.
• Ø Try to balance the colors you use – don’t let one color dominate too visibly.
• Ø Use contrasting colors but look at the outfit as a whole to see if they are complementary.
• Ø Stick to about three solid colors to avoid the over-the-top rainbow look
• Ø Play with different shades of the same color to create interesting looks.

Don't over do it. It's always best to use solid color for blocking, not prints/dots et.al.

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The 4th of July birthday celebration of America in New York City did not fall short of fashionistas waiting along the coastal front of the big apple for the nation’s biggest fireworks ever! This is the time of the year when stripes and stars rule the busy streets of New York with many taking to their picnic gears and cameras to capture the fireworks. Featured here are some of the memorable images of the day. Enjoy!

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The highly anticipated 3rd print issue of Shoeholics Magazine is now on sale! This issue is packed with colorful and whimsical concepts of dinning out with what we love on our minds -shoes! We’ve all been in a situation of having to make polite conversations during a boring business dinner or lunch meetings. This issue will give you an idea of what to do to while away the time. Just imagine your best shoe collection right in front of you. It works like magic!

The issue also highlights the brilliant shoe designing careers of Greece based genius, Dukas and the man behind the lens who captures some of the most breathtaking shoe themed fashion images of shoes and models alike, we are proud to introduce you to England based shutterbug, John Farrar. We also made sure not to leave out the star designers of tomorrow, Monisha Raja of “Love is Mighty” an Indian designer, was brought into the spotlight in this issue along with the rain gear man, Pascal Pierre of Pure Ligne.

We had an exclusive on the ultimate Goddess of flexibility, Zlata. She makes one cringes with her ability to throw her heels over her head while it is still on her foot!

The July-September 2012 issue introduces our readers to the unique world of Strassing, the art of transforming old (and sometimes new) shoes into a rare gem with dazzling embellishment of high grade crystals for continued sparkle, adding a new life to the shoes.

With the Olympics just around the corner, one of our editors, Heather Lascano brings us into the world of the Sneakerheads with an in-dept article on what goes on in the world of sneakers and the mindset of the collectors. Also includes an editorial spread with Japanese model Yohei in a small range of sneakers, a taste of sneaker fashion to take in the Olympics in style.

A wide selection of gorgeous shoes for men, women and kids from various international designers as seen in Europe, also made it into this issue. Visit our subscription page to have one sent to you right away anywhere in the world or see our retailers page to see where to pick up a copy today at your nearest store.

June 24, 2012 New York City: The Gay Pride Parade Day is not just about sexuality but more about equality across the board: sex, race, acceptance, awareness, unity, et.al. It’s about everyone getting along, the New York City Gay Pride Day in particular is the leader and trendsetter for all other parades around the world. It not only features the Gay community unapologetic and proudly marching to their own drums but also includes countless big wig major corporations and politicians taking a bite out of the media blitz! If you could combine the politics of Occupy Wall Street, politicians seeking votes, hyper energetic (and super proud) exhibitionists, with a dose of South American/Carribean Carnival spirit, the result would the Gay Pride Parade in New York City. Major corporations who proudly supports the community and didn’t miss a beat to have floats and dancers to display their logos: Wholefoods, Fedex, Cirque Du Soleil, MasterCard, Senators, Macys, Zip cars, Village Voice, Crunch Gym, HSBC Bank, Bravo TV channel, Pop Chips, Coca cola, New York University and even churches!

Each year the Pride organizers appoints a Grand Marshall to open the “floor” and this year it was only befitting to have the legendary singer Cyndi Lauper to do the honors. This particular parade marked the one-year anniversary of the Gay Marriage being legally put into law in the State of New York. Thousands of revelers traveled from far and wide to celebrate. The Gay community happens to be one of the largest shoe admirers and collectors in the world, make no mistake about it! We made sure Shoeholics Magazine was in the mix to represent our Gay/Lesbian readers and club members worldwide, making us the first mainstream publication (not meant for just the Gay community) to participate at any Pride parade in the world.

Participants of all sexual sectors straight or otherwise showed up to happily support, the result was intoxicating, far exceeding our expectation! It would be our first year at the coveted event and we do intend to fully immerse ourselves by having the party on a float complete with music and DJs next year, God willing. It is not to be missed!

Special thanks to everyone who participated, (our sincere apologies if we left anyone out. If we are missing your name please email info@shoeholicsclub.com) Alexas, Marcus, David, Olga, Coral, Imani, Lisa, Anita, Alanna, Sydney, Chanda, Courtney, Derek. The group was lead by Editor Tinu (who walked the entire parade in 5 inch Tribute heels by YSL) and Directors Renarda & Toriola with a stunning jaw dropping/crowd pleasing Jonas who serenaded the crowd to several dance/flip performances. The event went superbly well. We do hope to see you all next year! Be sure to join our club here and sign up for our newsletter for more updates and news!  The new July-Sept issue of Shoeholics Magazine will debut on Monday July 2 next week. Get your copy sent to you anywhere in the world or from any of the stores listed on our retailers page. Don’t miss a single issue!

Additional images of fashion & shoes from the parade are also available on the event page.

Grand Marshall, legendary singer Cyndi Lauper officiated the parade.

Group march on 5th Avenue, NYC at the Pride

Some of the media frenzy who couldn’t get enough of us!

A lady in the crowd presenting Jonas with a pair of her shoes to inspect! How cool is that?

A very happy pair of Shoeholics group members. We had loads of fun!

Courtney doing the honors. We promised him a float next year 🙂

The ladies engaging the crowd. We love them so much. So energetic!

The stylish Marcus with his friends who helped give away loads of our flyers

Editor Tinu in 5 inch Tribute heels by YSL with a Pacific Islander, one of the parade participant.

Jonas during one of his back flips, entertaining the crowd.

David, Olga and Toriola

Marcus Braggs and his friends

The Shoeholics Magazine group on 5th Ave in the parade

The group walking through the Village in the parade, just past Barnes & Noble where you can also get the magazine! 🙂

It’s JLO. Need we really say more? We are totally speechless for the first time in a while! The picture says it all. Would you wear these any other way?

Here we are, a newly revamped website! A brand new social network website for all of us shoe lovers worldwide!  We have taken into account all of the requests and suggestions made by our members worldwide demanding key features such as having a site with the ability to post forum boards discussions, post blogs/articles/pictures of your own on the site, network and friend others, openly discuss topics about shoes we love and of course the need to have the purchase option on some of the shoes we post from time to time. Most of these features you will find operable through your member profile pages after you sign up/login. You can see some of the the lovely benefits by clicking on the Community link on the top menu bar of this site. There are so many cool features here! We can also post images of our members in their own favorite shoes for the world to see. Just send the images to members@shoeholicsclub.com and it will be up on the site within 48 hours!

Please share the site with your friends and families, use the invite friends option to spread the news to others. The more the merrier. Let’s cherish our shoe collection together. We hope you like it.

In an effort to keep this site clutter free and safe for our members, spammers and commercial postings by marketers posting contents and creating profile pages on the website, harassing our members will be removed and banned from the site. All rights reserved by Shoeholics Club and affiliates.

We are still doing more finishing touches to the site, we eagerly welcome any suggestions and ideas you want seen on the site or perhaps errors you might want corrected. This site is very much yours as much as it is ours. We are a unique bunch of shoe loving family and we take that very personal here. We have many more surprises in the works for you, including exclusive event invitations for our registered members to unique events we have coming up! So don’t miss out, sign up, it’s FREE!

Happy Shoe Loving from all of us at Shoeholics Club!