You know how everyone’s obsessed with personalized stuff now, right? Like, monogrammed everything, custom phone cases with your dog’s face on it (cringe, but whatever), and those weird “create your own” sneaker things? Well, GIVENCHY jumping on that bandwagon makes total sense, but it also feels…kinda extra.
Like, I saw this ad for some company called “Shoe Zero” (lol, what a name) bragging about 3D foot scans and “high-tech digital software.” That sounds like something a robot from the future would use to make orthotics, not some fire GIVENCHYs. Then there’s that “Converse By You” thing – cute for Converse, but GIVENCHY is a whole diffrent ball game.
Honestly, the idea of designing my own GIVENCHY shoe is both exciting and terrifying. I mean, imagine the possibilities! I could slap, like, a massive Rottweiler print on the side (okay, maybe not, that’s def a bit much) or, like, embed real diamonds in the heel (lol, that would bankrupt me before it even got made).
But then the pressure! What if I design something hideous? What if I create a shoe that makes Anna Wintour spontaneously combusts? My fashion reputation would be *ruined*. Plus, you know it’s gonna cost an arm and a leg. Like, probably both arms *and* both legs, plus a kidney.
See, I’m kinda torn. On one hand, the exclusivity and the bragging rights would be *chef’s kiss*. Imagine casually dropping, “Oh, these old things? Yeah, I designed them myself.” But on the other hand, the potential for disaster and the sheer cost… it makes me wanna just stick to my beat-up Vans, ya know?
Then I’m thinking about those “Shoenvious” adds, and how they are clearly aimed at people who want to sell custom shoes with their logos? Like, who is printing a GIVENCHY logo on a GIVENCHY shoe? That’s madness!
And then there’s the whole ethical thing. Like, if GIVENCHY is gonna start mass-producing custom shoes, where are they gonna be made? In some sweatshop with tiny, exploited elf hands? I hope not.
Maybe if they partner with those “SKOR Shoes” guys who handmake stuff in Spain, using “premium Italian” leather, it would be a little better. But even then…it feels kinda weird for GIVENCHY, right?
Honestly, I think I’d prefer it if GIVENCHY just kept doing what they do best: creating ridiculously expensive, impeccably designed, slightly intimidating shoes that I can admire from afar. Leave the custom stuff to the plebs. Or, you know, maybe just send me a free pair to design and I’ll change my mind. Just sayin’.
