The Shoe Girl's Blog: God Save My Souls Trailer

10.07.2011

God Save My Souls Trailer

I can't wait to check this out!

“God Save My Shoes” is the first documentary film to explore the intimate relationship women have with their shoes.
To understand how shoes have come to hold such a pivotal place in pop culture, sexuality and women’s lives, God Save my Shoes turned to many of those who play a role in the global shoe phenomenon: Extreme shoe lovers, fashion historians and editors, psychologists, sex experts, shoe fetishists, and star designers Christian Louboutin, Manolo Blahnik, Walter Steiger, Pierre Hardy, Bruno Frisoni, and Robert Clergerie, along with celebrities such as Fergie, Kelly Rowland and Dita Von Teese.

HOW did they make this film without me?? ;)

xox,

9 comments:

Holly said...: This looks amazing! Cannot wait!; October 7, 2011 at 8:47 AM
footman said...: A MUST see! Question to all you ladies: And you wonder why us men love female feet? Really? It's not that difficult to figure out, especially when shoes are made so sexy. Combine that with the amazing job most of you do at maintaining your feet and you have perfection. With all due respect, I love all of you and admire your beauty, and yes, head to TOE.; October 7, 2011 at 10:48 AM
kritika.m1 said...: Now this is something to look forward to, can't wait! Thanks for sharing.

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labelpurple.blogspot.com; October 7, 2011 at 12:22 PM
Loqua57 said...: Celine do you know where/when we can view this documentary in the US?? It looks amazing!!; October 7, 2011 at 2:16 PM
talktomyshoes said...: So excited!!
Like Loqua57 asked- do you know where and when?
And I also add... will it come to Canada? Or do I have to get down to Pheonix to watch?
Happy Canadian Thanksgiving!; October 8, 2011 at 7:01 AM
Sabina said...: So cool! Can't wait to see this. I'm a big Dita fan too.; October 8, 2011 at 3:30 PM
Dexter said...: I can't wait to see this film either. We should watch it together ;); October 9, 2011 at 8:40 AM
Visual Therapy said...: Love this post!; October 11, 2011 at 8:47 AM
drara010 said...: I can't wait to see this film either.

Moncler Down Vest have shiny color with high-density waterproof composite fabric and good down filled.; October 13, 2011 at 1:37 AM

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Bio (blah blah blah...)

So, a little about me and why I think I can call myself The Shoe Girl.

My name is Celine and I grew up in Huntington Beach, California. I like to joke that I was born in high heels, and although that's obviously not true, I was born with the love of shoes in my blood.
My father, a former professional soccer player, came to the US from Morocco in the 70's. He started off as a shoe salesmen and had a natural talent for it. He worked his way up and eventually co-founded a company called French Follies. They made cute little espadrilles and ballet inspired shoes. From there he went on to Guess and Charles David footwear, where he eventually became President of the company and brought it to its height of popularity in the late 80's.

I was so lucky to grow up around shoes. I was the only girl in the 8th grade wearing the kick ass ankle boots Guess was famous for... and remember those Guess jellies?? Yep. I had those too. And at a whopping hundred bucks a pair, let's just say I made a lot of new friends when I came to school in those! That's the first time I felt the power of a hot shoe.

In the 90's, my dad left Charles David/Guess Footwear to pursue a new venture... Bebe Footwear! It was his first shoe license, and it was super successful. Soon after he started his own line with his namesake, Joey O. Since then his company has held the exclusive licenses for L.A.M.B. Footwear, Harajuku Lovers footwear, Charles Jourdan footwear, Laundry by Shelly Segal footwear, Antik Denim footwear, Playboy footwear, Zinc foowear, Hale Bob footwear, Badgley Mischka footwear, Mark and James by B.M. footwear, Betsey Johnson footwear, Betseyville footwear, Jill Stuart footwear, JLO Footwear, and True Religion Footwear. Awesome, right!? :) did I type "footwear" enough?

So... like I said, shoes are in my blood! I realized this at an early age, when I would go into my mom's closet and pull out her shoes and clear off my book shelves, fill them with shoes, and put a sign up that said "Shoe Show". I didn't really know what it meant, other than that was where my dad was always flying off to. Shoe shows. I wanted to be a part of it!
I went to design school in Milan, Italy when I was 20. My professors at Ars Sutoria taught me all about making shoes, including sketching, pattern making, leather tanning, and lots of technical shoe stuff. It was intense.

From shoe school to designer! After graduating from my shoe program I went back home and started working as the assistant to the designer of my dad's company, Titan Industries. At the time, we were only making bebe and Joey O Footwear, and were about to go after our second license, JLO Footwear. I was a part of that project and I loved it! It was so exciting putting what I had learned to use. I was off to China and working my butt off. I was the assistant to our head designer for a little over a year when I got offered the job of taking over as the designer for Playboy. It wasn't anything I had ever thought I would do, but it was a chance to be my own designer! No more assisting!!! I took it! Then, a few months after accepting the position as designer for Playboy, I was offered another line; Zinc footwear! I took it!!! I loved working with Zinc. The clothing was cute and the shoes were much more "my style". Later still, I was given the job as designer of JLO footwear.

I launched the debut collection (and every collection thereafter) for Harajuku Lovers in August 2008, and in May of 2009 I took over as designer of Betsey Johnson footwear until Steve Madden bought out the company in October of 2010.

Currently I'm designing for Bebe footwear and just launched my own line, Cece L'amour, which I am very excited about.

I love my job! I get to work with shoes every day. It's my job to look at shoes in magazines, online, in stores, and on the streets. It's a dream job honestly, and I feel lucky every day. My obsession is my job... So cool!

So anyway, here I am. Here's my blog. I hope you've enjoyed reading it so far. It's been fun for me and I hope that shows. :)

10.07.2011

God Save My Souls Trailer

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