Wednesday, August 12 …Your flip flops could kill you! (Perhaps because of this, Pulitzer Prize winning movie critic and author Stephen Hunter is just not a flip flop kind of guy )… Flat boots with hardware emerge as a fall trend…The fabulous Kurt Geiger ad campaign channels the 1940s…Everyone (who has great gams) is wearing ankle boots with short dresses…Brooding shoe designer Nicholas Kirkwood opens a pop-up shop in London on September 10 – featuring his first ever flats – and mingles with folks at the Wynn Encore in Las Vegas… The sexiest shoe designer in the world debuts his fall ad… Wedges which have “none of the following: raffia, canvas, color, or preciousness like bows, rosettes, and/or nautical stripes,” catch one fashion editor’s eye… Abel Munoz readies his spring footwear collection… Loeffler Randall relaunches its e-commerce site…Fantastic Toe blogger DCDiva discovers luxury footwear line Omelle … New York magazine staff puts fall’s craziest shoes to the test in today’s Daily Shoe Video .

Morning Shoe Report: Death Flip Flops, Plus Flat Boots With Hardware