Last year, you couldn’t scroll through any fashion magazine’s website without hitting the phrase “wrong shoe theory.” The term, coined by stylist Allison Bornstein, is used to describe the self-explanatory incongruous styling hack employed by the likes of Jennifer Lawrence, Ashley Olsen, and Katie Holmes.
Now, over a year after it entered the zeitgeist, Emily Ratajkowski is testing out the trick herself.
Ratajkowski is among a sect of “wrong shoe” acolytes who spice up a quotidian outfit with an ugly shoe. (She’s in community with a lot of fashion industry folks here, not to mention Gwyneth Paltrow and Kylie Jenner.)
In this case, she wore a perfectly inoffensive dog-walking look: a body-hugging eggplant-hued spaghetti strap tank top and sporty olive green drawstring pants. She added some flirty, femme accessories: a smattering of gold jewelry and black cat-eye sunglasses. But while others would perhaps style the same outfit with ballet flats or maybe a pair of Sambas, EmRata is zigging where others zag.
