Shoe stories **love**

LOVE Selfridges at the moment, with their new "Shoe galleries" re-vamping the look of the shoe collections in the store. 

With 55,000 shoes in stock at any one time and 4,000 shoes on display from over 150 brands Selfridges' new Shoe Galleries will change the way you shop for shoes forever.

Gemma Arterton

Each gallery masterfully juxtaposes materials you wouldn't normally find in a department store: velvet and glass, clay and steel, alabaster and silk, concrete and rubber. Meanwhile, the eleven surrounding apartments have been designed in collaboration with some of the world's most iconic labels, allowing customers a glimpse into the private worlds of their designers for the first time.

"Imagine you are in a gallery", says Selfridges' Director of Accessories Sebastian Manes. "From the entrance you see a succession of doorways, and at the end a huge window flooding the space with daylight. Your journey begins at the front, with shoes from the best of the high street. Slowly you begin to travel through different galleries until you reach the end – the couture designer gallery, flanked by Chanel and Louboutin, and a vision of Eden – the new suspended garden at Selfridges. Shoe heaven!"

When looking around the shoe galleries, i had noticed that there was a photo booth, interestingly enough, we could take a shoe from the displays and take pictures!! This was very fun as i was meeting my friend and had little time before shooting off for a university lecture!

Worth making the trip for a little fun and of course...SHOE HEAVEN!