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Thursday, July 6, 2017

The princess and the platforms: how these Gucci trainers became a symbol of excess

When Princess Olympia of Greece wore a pair of Gucci kicks for her lavish 21st, it cemented the status of trainers as the new glass slipper If Marie Antoinette had lived in the Snapchat age, would she be wearing £640 Gucci platform trainers? That is the question on everyone’s lips today, as we survey the fallout from Crown Prince Pavlos and Princess Olympia of Greece’s joint 50th and 21st birthday party. In case you missed it, the pair threw a bash at an 18th-century manor house in the Cotswolds, and it was pretty relaxed. Just a few dozen viscounts, the queen of Holland, King Felipe of Spain, some Delevingnes, some Hiltons and a man intriguingly referred to by the Daily Mail as a “society osteopath”. Continue reading...


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