The heels already gave some disgust to the organizers of the Cannes Festival in last year's edition.First a group of spectators complained: they had not let them access one of the projections because their shoes were too flat, which in that dazzling context came to equivalent to presenting themselves in Abarcas or Almadreñas.Next, the highest level protests were shown: the wife of a director to whom, for identical reason, they had tried to prevent him from entering a pass, the producer and screenwriter with half a amputated foot to which they had intercepted four times in theirRoad to the Salas...And, finally, the guest reproaches of Emily Blunt's caliber arrived, which caught the fuse of the aesthetic revolution, the taking of the Glamor Bastille: "Honestly, we should all go flat," he said.

The director of the contest hastened to clarify then that the alleged demand for a minimum heel height was a "unfounded" rumor, as if the idea had occurred to the security guards, and it seems that their words were heard: this year, Cannes is sometimes looking like the waiting room of a podological clinic, because the actresses have discovered how pleasant the red carpet is in direct contact with the floor of the foot.Julia Roberts is the one that has taken the daring farther, by removing the stilettos in the middle of the walk and climbing barefHuge smile, extended even if such a thing is possible after free.Susan Sarandon appeared with flat shoes, but took the definitive step at the tribute dinner to Thelma and Louise: he went barefoot for the photo shoot and pushed his business Geena Davis "My God, how high you are!"down there to do the same by solidarity.

In Cannes we have also seen their feet from the emerging Sasha Lane and the Consecrated Kristen Stewart, a free choice activist who has had time to wear heels admits that he loves, shoes with chess print and proud air pinreel,All this in tremendous protocol bright events.«Things have to change immediately.It is totally obvious that, if I get to a red carpet accompanied by a man and someone stops me and tells me apology, lady, does not carry heels and cannot enter, I will answer my friend either.They can't ask me to do something that does not ask him, ”said the interpreter, who considers these clothing codes" archaic ".The Heel strike in Cannes has coincided with the petition to the British Parliament that illegalizes the imposition of their use to some workers: it has been promoted by the young Nicola Thorp, whom they fired from a temporary receptionist work for insisting on carrying her dancers,And it has already far exceeded the one hundred thousand signatures necessary for the camera to submit the matter to debate.Interestingly, Nicola Thorp is also an actress, with a couple of appearances in the DR series.WHO as a jewel of your curriculum.

That very high heels are mortally uncomfortable, it has been known for a long time: more or less, from the first time a human being ventured to climbing some.That they are harmful to health is not a discovery of the day before yesterday: in the 18amputate the three central fingers of each foot."The operation would contribute to its comfort, it would not make its current way of walking in the least and it would only be a little more foolish than the Chinese practice of deforming the feet of the girls," argued the very beautiful one, which became involuntary pioneerOf the current surgeries to adapt the foot to the ruthless mold of the brand shoe.Because, already entered the 21st century, the fashion world and its satellites are more devout than ever of the stilettos, with their tips that seem designed to climb and that new standard around the thirteen centimeters that Louboutin brought.And many women point to the trend without any professional obligation.

Why do they do it?«Women wear high heel shoes to look feminine and sexy.This footwear creates the illusion of lengthening and stylizing the legs and forces to walk on the front of the feet, pushing the bust forward.Many women also believe that high heels denote strength, because everyone is aware that they harm and also define calf muscles, emphasizing an appearance of good shape and strength. La ironía es que los zapatos de tacón muy alto deforman el pie y hacen que las mujeres renqueen de dolor: en eso no hay nada sexi ni fuerte», explica a este periódico desde Nueva York la escritora feminista Leora Tanenbaum, autora del libro Bad Shoes & The Women Who Love Them (es decir, Los zapatos malos y las mujeres a las que les encantan).There seems to be a universal agreement in which the heels work wonders with sexual attractiveness.Christian Louboutin himself told The New Yorker that his work "does not consist in pleased women, but men", which according to their experience react "just like bulls" as soon as the emblematic red soles of their brand perceive."Many heterosexual girls and women confuse male attention with authentic power," says Tanenbaum, which nevertheless points out: "There is nothing wrong with wearing heels...judicily.

"This red is my blood"

In recent years, the protests of those guilds who are forced to perched on them in a daily basis have proliferated.This is the case of the models that appeared barefoot in the final round of a fashion week parade in New York, fed up with the high of the excessive designs of Manolo Blahnik.Or that of the hostesses of the Israeli company El Al, which managed to put back a new regulation where they were imposed a heel minimum.And it is the case, above all, of the actresses, who often contemplate the attire of ceremonies as a sadistic added to their contractual obligations.

The most committed to that fight, as in so many others, is Emma Thompson unforgettable in the Golden Globes for a couple of years ago, with her Louboutin in one hand and a Dry Martini in the other, pointing out the soles and releasing "this redIt is my blood », but it is not difficult to gather a copious collection of citations that abominate« Satan's shoes ».This affectionately defined them Jennifer Lawrence, the actress who has more times stamped against the ground at crucial moments of her career.

In this informal jurisprudence against the heel, a testimony has special interest: Sarah Jessica Parker is surely the person who has made the most popularized the use of stilettos, since her sex character in New York did not conceive going out without her strides ofluxury, always vertiginous and exclusive."I've spent forty thousand dollars in shoes and I have nowhere to live!" He said in an episode, stuck in Carrie Bradshaw's skin."I ran with the heels, worked eighteen hours and never took them off," recalls the actress, already on this side of the screen.Six years ago, while rolling temptation in Manhattan, Sarah Jessica Parker had the bad luck of twistI shouldn't be able to do.This bone here...You have created it! ".Who knows, perhaps this new tendency to barefoot on the red carpet allows us to look at other surprising adaptations of human anatomy.