Day 273 - On your bike

On a rainy AFL Grand Final eve (the beginning of a quasi-religious festival in Melbourne), these sassy Jimmy Choo slingbacks with reptile trim are pictured in Little Bourke Street, paired with the smoky Infini by Caron.

Day 256 - Looking grate

These glamorous Christian Louboutin mesh slingbacks, the colour of burnt toast, are pictured today in a laneway off Little Bourke Street in a small cloud of Hermes' Un Jardin sur le Nil.

Day 130 - Cats cradle

I love these shoes.  I bought them from the John Fluevog boutique in Chicago in 2007, I think, and have worn them year in, year out ever since.  They have a sense of humour (sadly, a rare quality in shoes), attract compliments from appreciative strangers and are  comfortable and functional.  The colour is one of the things I love most - an interesting burnished olive, with curved wood-stack heels, enhanced by the fabulous flourish of the cats cradle ties at the front.   They're on Little Bourke Street on a very cool winter's day accompanied by Serge Lutens' comforting Cedre.

Day 118 - Trashed

I blame my stylist for this shot.   To call him a stylist is flattery, of course.  Kittie's Manolo Blahnik black leather slides with off-white stitching are posed in a pile of...well...trash (!!), off Little Bourke Street.   They are partnered with an old fave, Amouage Jubilation 25.

Day 67 - Chinatown

Chinatown, Melbourne, lunchtime, Tuesday.  Lunching at an undisclosed location - because it's so good I want to keep it a secret.  Tottered down Little Bourke Street in these lovely Kate Spade patent peeptoes, bought a few years ago at the store on Oak Street in Chicago - when I was lucky to snap them up for 50 bucks (they were relocating over the road and selling off stock super-cheap).  The style is 'Gwen' and they are easy to wear.  Note the double heel strap and interesting criss-cross detail.  Worn with Serge Lutens' Cedre.  Great feng shooey.