When doing exhaustive, lengthy searches for the latest & greatest in shoe trends, it’s important to take into account the fashion shows.  (Actually, I have no idea if it’s important or not – it just seemed like a good idea on Monday, when I was conducting my research.)

On the NY Magazine fashion area, you can search by article of clothing, season, gender, color, trend & designer.  When looking at all shoes for women in Fall 2008, you get the following popular trends:

Out of a field of 11,000 shoes:

Materials

• 955 are leather
• 49 are velvet
• 18 are “skins”
• 11 are fur

Styles/Influences

• 22 are Rock
• 18 are Fringe (bleh)
• 12 are Goth

Colors & Prints

• 5,127 black & 1,013 brown (of course)
• 457 grays
• 432 metallics
• 393 white/cream (for fall?  really?)
• 353 red (that’s more like it)
• 324 beige/khaki (again, bleh)
• 188 green
• 114 purple
• 111 prints/patterns
• 104 pink

What I really want to see is a metallic fur fringe shoe.  However, doing a Google image search turns up some rather disturbing images, as well as pictures of Sharon Stone.  And this:

We discussed the fringe last week, and nothing short of a bribe would make me walk down that path again.  But, since it’s not shoe porn Wednesday without some shoe porn, I will give you the prettiest shoe that I’ve seen this week:

And, because apparently I’m a hater, with the ugliest shoe I’ve seen in a long time (and further proof that buying a Rachel Zoe pick is just stupid – she also endorsed the Pocahontas boot):