Classic Ballet Flats

“Repettos are a very nice shape. Fine, do you and wear a glove flat. But nothing beats the specificity of the French Sole, which are France by way of England by way of Gossip Girl by way of Nikki Hilton. The accompanying book: Dancing On My Grave by Gelsey Kirkland and Greg Lawrence, 1986”

“If a sales associate didn’t have to teeter on a ladder to retrieve the ballet flats from leopard-print boxes stacked to the heavens in a Madison Avenue shop the size of a large closet, I don’t want them.”