Shoes

Where to Buy HOKA on Sale (and When the Best Sales Happen)

The clearest place to buy HOKA on sale in the U.S. is HOKA.com’s Sale section, where women’s shoe markdowns and current sizes are easy to check. This guide separates the pairs discounted now from full-price styles to watch and covers the brand’s verified holiday-sale timing.

Sam Edelman Sizing: Does Sam Edelman Run Small, Big or True to Size?

Sam Edelman shoes generally run true to size, but style and foot shape can change how a pair feels. This guide covers half sizes, shoe widths, model-specific fit notes and wide-calf boot measurements.

Is Mansur Gavriel Worth It? An Honest Look at the Bags and Shoes

Mansur Gavriel is worth it for shoppers who value distinctive leather, clean shapes and considered details, but care and fit vary by material and style. This guide weighs the bags, shoes and small goods against return terms and mixed first-hand reports.

HOKA Sizing: Do HOKAs Run Small, Big or True to Size?

HOKAs are usually true to size in length, but toe-box shape and model-specific fit can make some feel snug or short. This guide covers HOKA half sizes, regular and wide options, and fit notes for Clifton, Bondi, Arahi, Mach, Transport and Gaviota.

Do Designer Shoes Run Small? A Brand-by-Brand Sizing Guide

Yes, some designer shoes run small, but fit depends on the specific style, not just the label. This guide compares live fit notes and available sizes across Gucci, Saint Laurent, Prada, Khaite, Golden Goose, Loewe, and Bottega Veneta.

ASICS Sizing: Do ASICS Run Small, and Which Model Fits Your Foot?

The ASICS GEL-KAYANO 33, GEL-CUMULUS 28, and NOVABLAST 6 tested true to size, but toe-box shape and width change how each feels. This guide compares ASICS neutral, stability, and wide-fit running shoes, with practical advice for choosing length and fit.

The Sneakers Worth Actually Owning This Season

Comfort-first shoes with enough character to shape the whole look.

Zebra Outfits: The Print of the Season, Head to Toe

Zebra is the print of the season, and Elle's fall 2026 runway report has it going wild at Isabel Marant, Roger Vivier and Situationist. This edit goes head to toe, from a belted jacquard coat and satin trousers to slip dresses, knee boots and ballet flats. Wear one zebra piece per outfit and keep everything else black, brown, cream or denim.

Loafers

Penny, horsebit and lug-sole styles

What Are Flòwze Sandals? A Guide to the Italian Rope Sandals, Slides, Bags and Necklaces

A guide to Flòwze, the Italian rope sandal label: twin and beaded lace-up sandals, easier slides and mules, and the rope bags and necklaces that match.

What Is NIIHAI? Boots, Fringe Dresses, Skirts and Tops From the Label Everyone Asks About

A guide to NIIHAI (Nii HAi): lace-up boots and heels, fringe and mini dresses, skirts, shorts, trousers and cropped knits, with fit and styling notes.

Leopard Print and Burgundy Outfits

Leopard print and burgundy is the richest pairing of the season, and the same rules apply to cheetah print. Leopard dresses and pants, burgundy velvet and satin, and shoes and bags in both.

Vagabond Shoemakers Boots: Finding the Right Pair

Vagabond Shoemakers is a Swedish shoe label from Varberg, built around craft and shoes meant to be worn for years. I like that it starts from real wear, so this edit is about boots and loafers for ordinary days.

TKEES Sandals: The Pairs Worth Buying This Season

TKEES is the Toronto flip-flop label that began with one missing shoe, a sandal that nearly disappears on the foot. I like how little it needs to say, and this edit is about the shapes worth starting with.

Seychelles Shoes: Sizing, Fit and Best Buys

Seychelles is the Los Angeles shoe label that makes vintage-leaning boots, mules and clogs for real days. I like shoes with a little character that still get worn on an ordinary Tuesday.

Schutz Shoes: The Best Pieces Right Now

Schutz is the Brazilian shoe label Alexandre Birman started in 1995, known for boots and heels with a little attitude. I like how restless it is, and this edit is how I would shop it, one silhouette at a time.

Emme Parsons Shoes

Emme Parsons was a graphic designer and art director in New York, working on brands like Theory and Lucky magazine, before she moved to Los Angeles and launched her eponymous footwear label in 2017 with just three sandal styles. She had no formal shoemaking training, so she took a one-day workshop at a Los Angeles shoe-repair shop before her first samples were even cut, and every pair is still made by a family-run factory in Italy.

ALAÏA Shoes and Bags

Azzedine Alaïa trained as a sculptor in Tunis before he ever cut a pattern, and it shows in everything the house has made since. He worked briefly at Dior, then Guy Laroche and Thierry Mugler, opened his own atelier in a Paris apartment on rue de Bellechasse in 1979, and built a body-first vocabulary that the industry has been borrowing ever since.

Andrea Gomez Shoes

Andrea Gomez studied jewellery design in Florence as a teenager, then at FIT in New York and the London College of Fashion, and worked at DKNY before launching her own shoes. She started in Caracas in 2011 with her sisters Leonor and Mariela, then relaunched the line in New York for spring 2017. Everything is made in a small family-owned factory near Alicante in Spain.

Amina Muaddi Heels and Shoes

Amina Muaddi was born in Romania in 1986 to a Jordanian father and a Romanian mother, studied fashion communication at IED in Milan, and worked as an assistant stylist at L'Uomo Vogue, Vogue Italia and American GQ. She then spent a year learning shoemaking from artisans in Riviera del Brenta, co-founded Oscar Tiye, left it, and launched her own label in August 2018.

Aeyde Shoes

Aeyde was founded in Berlin in spring 2015 by Luisa Dames and Constantin Langholz-Baikousis, who met in 2011 working at Zalando, where Dames ran the private-label division and its production across India, Bangladesh and China. They launched with about twelve pairs of shoes made in family-owned factories in Italy's Marche region.

Salomon Shoes

Salomon was founded in 1947 in Annecy, France, by François Salomon, who began by making wood saw blades and steel ski edges with his wife and son Georges in a small workshop. Georges pushed the company toward skiing specifically, patenting safety bindings and eventually the first rear-entry ski boot, and that same engineering-first approach now defines the trail and outdoor shoes the brand is known for.

Cult Gaia Bags and Dresses

Jasmin Larian started Cult Gaia in 2012, making flower crowns and wired-fabric headbands for friends around New York while she was training at FIT. The label found its real signature in the bamboo Ark bag, a sculptural, unmistakable shape that turned a slow-burning accessory into one of the decade's most photographed bags and pushed the brand into ready-to-wear, footwear and eventually bridal.

Fleur du Mal Dresses and Shoes

Jennifer Zuccarini launched Fleur du Mal in New York in 2012 after stints co-founding Kiki de Montparnasse and designing intimates at Victoria's Secret, taking the brand's name from Baudelaire's collection of poems. Her pitch was lingerie meant to be worn on an ordinary day rather than saved for an occasion, which is why the label expanded into ready-to-wear and swim without ever losing its underpinnings logic.