Recently, Haibao filmed a poster for "The Queen of News".
Charmaine Sheh and Li Shihuan in the poster are wearing high boots and tough coats. To be honest, it's been a long time since I've seen such a sharp image of a professional woman, and I almost feel like I'm going against fashion. The fashion trend in recent years has been loose, soft, and soft, and almost everyone has to forget the lethality of the "sister" style that cuts to the blood.
The Queen of News poster.
The presence of high boots is like a restrained demonstration. They are the workplace armor that wraps the sisters, calm, heavy, and majestic. I can't think of any element that is more suitable for the sisters in "News Queen" than high boots, and the words "beautiful alone" have been achieved to the extreme, and even reprimanding people is murderous without blood.
Reminds me of the famous Bedeker test, which is used to test whether a film or television has a true "female perspective": at least two named female characters in the film have spoken to each other and the content of the conversation is not related to the male. "The Queen of the News" has long surpassed this metric, and the female characters are all alive and sharp, with their own ambitions, desires and creativity.
News Queen", of course, "dare to wear". The dare to wear here does not mean that you dress fashionably and out of line, on the contrary, but dress smartly and down-to-earth. A woman at work can be unfashionable, but she must be professional and have a sense of volume enough to make her words swell throughout the space. The women in "The Queen of News" wear a lot of solid colors, good fabrics, suits, and leather boots.
The sense of power in leather boots is a subtle thing. This kind of shoe has been given too many meanings since its birth - from ** glamorous, to today's tough and aggressive. The evolution of the high boots is like a woman coming out of a long-time pavilion and becoming a character of her own.
Mona Runway Dion Lee 2024SS
What many people don't know is that the single item of high boots is actually affiliated to ** at the beginning. People often assume that high boots are used to flatter the curves of women's legs, but ignore that high boots actually originated from their functionality.
In the Middle Ages, leather boots were the standard for heavy cavalry, and their weight and leather finish provided faithful protection for the warriors. Later, the boots became an artifact for men to hide smuggled goods, and there were many stories in the boots, such as spirits, herbs, and jewelry, and the boots witnessed all the deceptions circulating in the rivers and lakes.
Napoleon III (left), Andy Thomas (right) from The Knight and the Maiden
Yes, for about half a century, we could only see men wearing boots, not women. It wasn't until the 19th century that women began to wear boots for their role as men in plays—as a form of parody, rather than as real everyday wear.
Boots became a daily wear for women, and they were almost born together with the modern society where women were able to enter the workplace and take charge of themselves. But even so, when we see the first women to wear boots on screen, we often see that they often play the glamorous image of femme fatales, because these leather shoes are always closely associated with sexual symbols.
The Avengers As early as the 1968 movie "Space Heroine Barbarina", Jane Fonda wore a pair of silver over-the-knee boots to save the world. This is a typical cult sci-fi play, fragrant, gorgeous, and funny, and even Jane Fonda's own ** temperament has been filmed as an exaggerated parody of plastic. And the pair of over-the-knee boots on her lap are delicate and sassy enough, which can be described as a futuristic **, which is also very advanced today.
Space Heroine Barbarina
By 1990, Julia Roberts also wore knee-high leather boots in "Pretty Woman". Similarly, this beautiful woman in high boots plays a fool who believes in love. And the huge, flamboyant boots on her legs are actually hinting at her profession in the Wind and Moon Field. Yes, in those days, these high boots were a shackle that Cinderellas couldn't wait to take off, because it coerced the girls to perform amorous. At that time, everyone tacitly assumed that a good woman in Mary Jane was a bad girl, and a girl in high boots was a bad girl, and the girl's "**" was more or less "bad".
Pretty Woman" and in "Batman: Homecoming" directed by Tim Burton in 1992, Catwoman played by Michelle Pfeiffer wore the kinkiness of boots to the extreme. The gel coat that tightly wraps around the woman's body seems to be tearing the air that releases hormones. And the leather boots that Catwoman wears make her hormones almost fatal. Even though Catwoman's smoky makeup is so cold and majestic, her ** energy that is like leather and engraved with flames is still honestly remembered by the screen.
Batman: Homecoming
But do high boots have to be **?
In 2006's "The Demon in Prada", a turning point was when Anne Hathaway stepped on leather boots and broke into the office of the Runway, which was a show of power and attracted the attention of her colleagues. These dancing boots from the Autumn/Winter 2005 Chanel runway were designed by Karl Lagerfeld, the same jacket worn by Anne.
Let's not talk about whether it is practical for a fashion Xi to wear Chanel from head to toe, this set of high boots is really a power move. From a rookie newcomer to a working sister whose personality has been sharpened and whipped, Anne Hathaway's confidence is from her feet to her head. High boots are not easy to wear, to neutralize its **, control its arrogance, you must have a tough soul power. This is also why only women who have gradually gained the right to speak in the workplace can wear it well, and wear it in a way that does not need to be **.
The Demon Dressed in Prada
Interestingly, the challenging item of the tall boot seems to have become one of the most enduring symbols in the fashion industry. On the runway for Fall/Winter 2023, we can still see the designers' love for high boots. For example, Stella McCarteney's tall leather boots are almost exactly the same as those worn by Anne Hathaway in the movies.
Stella McCartney Fall 2023 Fashion Show.
The coldness, complexity, and toughness of the boot make up its timelessness. Today's high boots have returned to their essence, they are armor wrapped around the flesh, they honestly hold up the bones of women, it never needs to be **, unless its owner wants to.
Look at how Lily-Rose Depp wears high boots - every time I see her in a leather coat and leather boots, I feel that she has indeed inherited her mother's "French relaxation".
On her body, even the tight, upright items such as high boots can be digested into a sense of teenage wandering. When everyone says "Chanel in the world", it seems that the focus is usually on elegance and beauty, but they ignore the toughness and rebellion in the genes of Chanel, a fashion house. In that sense, Lily is a good fit for Chanel – crisp and exquisite, but with a rampage, careless youthfulness.
lily rose-depp
Yes, high boots are the best killer weapon for cool women. Like men in the Middle Ages, women's boots can now be hidden, but instead of wine and medicine, they contain ambition.
So, this winter, try taking out the boots from your closet.
The winter winds are cruel, but perhaps we need something less soft to "arm" ourselves sometimes. Fleece, snow boots, thick sweaters, they're all fine, but in some moments, it feels like only tall boots will keep a woman's soul at bay from the cold.