There was a time when the Valentino Rockstud heel was physically impossible to avoid. It showed up at weddings, fashion week, brunch, airports, and roughly every Instagram flat lay posted between 2012 and 2017. Then fashion collectively decided the shoe was dated, which in trend-cycle language usually means too many women outside Lower Manhattan bought it. Since then, the shoe has occupied a strange position in fashion culture. Not timeless enou…
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