From Manolo Blahnik of Sex and the City to Jordan of Air, the iconic shoes of the movies

Carrie Bradshaw’s Manolo Blahniks in Sex and the City (series and films) are so famous that they have themselves become an extension of the iconic character played on the big and small screen by Sarah Jessica Parker. Among the many fabulous shoes worn by the New York fashion journalist, the décolleté model in electric blue satin with jewel-decorated buckle have become nothing short of legendary to the point of returning to the set of …And Just Like That in the exciting episode that tells the epilogue of the love story between the protagonist and Mr. Big

Shoes are often the magical element of a story that makes young and old dream and this has been happening since ancient times. Among the most famous in the history of cinema, the glass slipper of the first Cinderella Disney deserves a special place. The frames are those of the 1950 animated feature film which was immediately accepted as a real classic

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Perrault’s Cinderella story knows no bounds in terms of remakes and reinterpretations. Here is the look of the heroine and her glittering slipper in the recent Cinderella by Kay Cannon starring Camila Cabello

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Shoes are the magic tool to move from one reality to another The Wonderful World of Oz by Lyman Frank Baum, story told in cinema ne The Wizard of Oz, legendary Victor Fleming film from 1939 with Judy Garland as Dorothy Gale. In the film, made with an exciting technicolor, the silver shoes of the original story became red and full of bright sequins, a cinematic expedient that immediately proved to be a winner and which made the shoes, now a museum piece, true icons

Rossi also clogs the final scene of Grease, the one that marks the transition of Sandy, the protagonist played by a magnificent Olivia Newton-John, from a good girl to partner of Danny Zucco, the brilliant character of John Travolta. In musical films, full of dance scenes, shoes play a vital role

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To stay with Travolta, whose formidable career is linked – at least in the first part – to numerous musical films, it is impossible not to mention the high and square heels with which he danced on the dance floor in Saturday night fever. The cult film set to music by the Bee Gees begins with a shot of the shoes of the protagonist who walks the streets of Brooklyn just as described by the verses of Stayin’Alive by the Gibb brothers

Camera focused on the feet (and therefore always also on the shoes) for the protagonists of Dirty Dancing-Prohibited dances, another dance cult masquerading as a love story (and vice versa). The skill of the inexperienced Jennifer Grey, Patrick Swayze’s improvised partner in pas de deux, is also expressed on the screen through the shoes that gradually become more similar to those of a professional dancer. The actress, who had started dancing for fun in lace-up sneakers

Jeans, tank top and lace-up shoes good for going wild at any moment. The feet and shoes of Ren McCormack, Kevin Bacon’s character in Footlooseare so present in the film that they became the subject of some posters of the 1984 cult

Bacon is quoted with reference to Footloose (more precisely as a hero who saved an entire country by dancing) in Guardians of the Galaxy: Holiday Special and in general in the saga of the Guardians, Peter Quill/Star-Lord (the character played by Chris Pratt) is often caught dancing with his Walkman. In these scenes the viewer appreciates his galactic superhero boots part of a uniform that is common to many characters from the comic universe and beyond

Among the many aspects of the seductive visual component of the films of the saga Star Warsthe costumes (and footwear) of the various characters deserve many considerations, from those of Mark Hamill in the role of Luke Skywalker to the futuristic robotic ones and all the same of the imperial soldiers, the stormtroopers. Each has made history and has undergone evolutions in the various chapters of the saga that has spanned the decades

Air – The story of the great leap features a team of formidable actors, Damon, Affleck and Bateman but also (and above all) a pair of shoes, the Air Jordans by Nike which revolutionized the sector because they were created for the basketball champion, the first sports testimonial not to have to promote existing footwear. The shoes, the absolute bestseller of the American brand, stand out in a display case in a scene from the film in the variant with the colors of the Chicago Bulls

Ben Affleck who starred in but also directed the film proves to be the best promoter of Air and off the set, in the long promotional tour of the title as in his private life, he wears only Air Jordans which, you can bet, will once again dominate the sports shoe market this season

Still Nike but on the feet of another cult actor, Micheal J.Fox aka Marty McFly, shoes designed by the sports company for the second chapter of the saga Back to the Future. As is known, the shoes were indeed made for the public in a very limited edition which is now part of the archives of very lucky collectors

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Even the evolution of Julia Roberts in pretty woman is well represented visually by the shoe changes of his character who almost immediately gives up the patent leather callboots (which also stand out in the film poster) to switch to the décolleté of the dates in the sunlight with Gere

Rocketman, the Taron Egerton biopic chronicling the life and career of Elton John, received numerous nominations for its accuracy in recreating the British music superstar’s iconic wardrobe. Everything is extremely enjoyable, from clothes to accessories to shoes, of course. Here is a pair of colorful lace-ups in a scene from the film