(^28) – SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER 2019 everythingzoomer.com
Zoom In Fashion
HERE IS A SCENE
in the 1988 movie,
Working Girl, where
Melanie Griffith’s
character, Tess
McGill, the Staten
Island Ferry commuter, arrives at
her secretarial job in Manhattan and
removes her footwear – white Reeboks
and tube socks – and slips into a pair
of pumps before meeting her male
boss. Like many working women in
the 1980s, sneakers were the comfy
footwear of choice to commute. The
scene not only accurately captured
the era’s sexist corporate culture
and rigid office dress codes but also
a fashion footnote: sneakers were
verboten in the corporate world.
But while the wolves of Wall Street
are still holding out on allowing
them in the boardroom, they are the
footwear of choice for the new money
makers. The cubs of Silicon Valley –
Mark Zuckerberg et al – following
in the footsteps of ’70s Hollywood
powerbrokers like Steven Spielberg
and David Geffen – have shown the
world you can run a billion-dollar
empire dressed in cool sneakers.
Today, sneakers have shattered the
sartorial glass ceiling, to become the
ultimate 24-7 wardrobe workhorse.
And they are treading new and
hallowed ground.
Celebrities wear them with tux-
edos on the red carpet. Even the
most staunch traditionalist – the
bride – will don a pair under her
gown to twirl on the dance floor.
Tennis star Serena Williams not
only wore bedazzled Nikes at
her own wedding but also wore
Valentino sneakers under her even-
ing gown to an event shrouded in
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The ultimate 24-7 fashion item, sneakers now go from the
street to boardrooms and black ties By Derick Chetty
Stacked sole women’s,
aldoshoes.com
Keds X Kate Spade bridal
sneaker, thebay.com
Women’s pull-on,
geox.com
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