For the past year, pop megastar Taylor Swift has been prancing around her glitzy stage in pairs of red bottoms adorned with crystals. Designer recently told Vogue that he designed 250 pairs of custom shoes for the pop star and her dancers — including 60 new ones for the recent European leg of her tour. Styles in Swift's collection include the knee-high Eleonora Botta and the Cate Boot, per .
Many of the styles are dripping in hand-applied strass crystals. "The way strass crystals catch the light is super impactful onstage. After all, this is the biggest tour in the world — the girl needs to shine!" Louboutin told Vogue.
Louboutin also told Vogue that he tried to design Swift's shoes to be comfortable and performance-ready. Pasquale Fabrizio, designer and owner of Pasquale Shoe Repair in Los Angeles, told Business Insider that the heeled versions of the showpiece shoes aren't necessarily built for dancing, but the carry a sought-after reputation. Many performers wear the shoes onstage, he said.
"The pinnacle of footwear is Louboutin," Fabrizio told BI. Dean Rago of the Rago Brothers, a in Morristown, New Jersey, told BI he could not imagine himself wearing those heels at Swift's height (the songstress is nearly 6 feet tall). Still, he said some customers find the shoe more comfortable than those from other designers.
"Some people will say that if they're gonna go that high, they want a Louboutin because they can bear it," Rago said. Fabrizio, whose shop has done repair wor.
