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This shoe was designed with Alexander McQueen in mind. The theme is 'Fairytale'. Now obviously this posed the problem of which fairytales would look best as a shoe and which elements would represent them. I explored a few fairytales, including Little Red Riding Hood, Rapunzel and Alice in Wonderland, none of which seemed to give the right look that McQueen may have possibly gone for if it were he who had been designing it, for example, I felt that playing cards looked too tacky. I concluded that the best two fairytales were possibly the two most obvious; Snow White and Cinderella. This meant that I could have an unconventional heel (the apple) which I thought was something that McQueen may have done. I took inspiration from Cinderella's glass slipper by using clear plastic for the toe. I didn’t make the entire shoe body from the plastic because I thought it would look too plain, instead I took inspiration from the physical storybooks fairytales are printed in. I tea-stained newsprint paper and bonded it to fabric, writing famous phrases from various fairytales, such as "Why is a raven like a writing desk" and "Rapunzel, Rapunzel, let down your hair", in calligraphy and then pleating it so it appeared like pages of a book.
