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"Shoe mogul Steve Madden has partnered with Chiara Ferragni, blogger-extraordinare and founder of The Blonde Salad to create a limited-edition collection that will be available February 5! The line will feature nine designs in various colorways and is priced from $129 to $179. I caught up with Steve and Chiara in the fall to talk about the collaboration, their inspirations, and the shoe trends they love and hate. Glamour: Why did you want to team up with Chiara? Steve Madden: It fits with what we&amp;#x27;re doing. It&amp;#x27;s very substantive, her following, as is mine. People really follow The Blonde Salad and they really follow Steve Madden, so it seemed like an effective marriage. Glamour: How did you first learn about Chiara? SM: Someone in my company first told me about her. It just makes sense. She also did something for Superga, a company that we&amp;#x27;re associated with. Glamour: What has your favorite part been about working with Chiara and creating the collection? SM: My favorite part has been the reaction to the pieces when people see them. It&amp;#x27;s like &amp;quot;wow&amp;quot; ya know, because people really dig what she&amp;#x27;s doing. Chiara Ferragni: They&amp;#x27;re all so organized and professional. I met Steve last Fashion Week and then when we started working on the collection and it started to become real it was so exciting. It was so easy. I gave my ideas the first time and it was perfect. This collection is really strong and represents who I am and what I want my style to be. It&amp;#x27;s something you can wear with jeans, leather trousers, and dresses. Glamour: What shoe trends are you over now? Chiara Ferragni: I don&amp;#x27;t wear high platforms so much anymore. I wear chicer versions of heels. Right now I would buy more flat shoes and more heels. SM: I suppose I&amp;#x27;m over rain boots. Glamour: Rain boots? Chiara, are you over rain boots too? CF: I used to love them, but now I don&amp;#x27;t wear them so much anymore. Glamour: What do you wear instead? CF: I would say wear flat booties or something like that. I wouldn&amp;#x27;t buy a pair of rain boots right now. Glamour: Interesting. What&amp;#x27;s your favorite shoe from the collection? SM: My favorite is the TDubai. And I love the ones Chiara is wearing, The TMoscow. CF: They&amp;#x27;re all my babies. I love them so much, I can&amp;#x27;t wait to wear them and Instagram. But I think the ones I&amp;#x27;m going to wear like every day are these booties and the leopard slip-ons. They&amp;#x27;re very chic and comfortable. They&amp;#x27;re edgy enough to make a look. I love sneakers so much.You can wear with very cool accessories like a designer bag or with a blazer and it looks professional. I&amp;#x27;m wearing sneakers almost more than anything else at this time. Glamour: You&amp;#x27;re known for how much you travel. What are your tricks for shoe packing? What are the shoes you always pack? CF: It depends on where I&amp;#x27;m going. If it&amp;#x27;s Fashion Week season, most are going to be heels or wedges or very fashionable ones, but if I&amp;#x27;m just traveling for pleasure I&amp;#x27;m just going to bring one or two pairs of heels, one or two pairs of ballerina flats if I&amp;#x27;ll be walking a lot, a pair of slippers, and maybe a pair of tall boots. So I have options. Also, I pack shoes in colors that will go with most of my outfits. Glamour: What shoes do you actually travel in? CF: I usually travel in the heaviest shoes that I have in my suitcase, like my Balenciaga booties. If I have to be comfortable, slip-on sneakers are the best options. Glamour: How many pairs of shoes would you say you own in total? CF: Someone just asked me this and I would probably say over 200 for sure. I have no idea though, I&amp;#x27;ve never counted them. SM: Where do you keep them? CF: I have different rooms. My bed opens and I store the boots and the sneakers in there and then in another room I have all the heels and wedges on display. And then in another room I have all the flats. Glamour: Steve, how many pairs of shoes do you own? SM: About four. Seriously. I have a Steve Madden loafer, I have a Carolina boot that I wear all the time. I have a Steve Madden bootie, and I have a pair of brown Ralph Lauren shoes. Those are the four shoes I wear. What do you guys think of the collection? Are you fan of Steve Madden shoes? The Blonde Salad? Anything catch your eye? Discuss!"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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