Just in case there was any doubt: gladiators are still the shoe trend for Spring-Summer 2008.

You see, I myself wasn’t sure that they’d make it this far. After all, I’d first blogged about gladiator sandals and heels in the middle of last year when they were a staple of a fashionisers Spring-Summer 2007 wardrobe. And while there were positive reactions to looking Kate Moss wearing the look, on mere mortals the clicks weren’t so kind.

Then there was this from The Sartorialist;

Gladiator Sandals Fashion Shoe Trend

And before long, after trawling through our Paris street style, New York street style, and Stockholm street style forum threads it became blindingly obvious: a full season on, gladiators sandals and gladiator heels are very much the footwear look of Spring-Summer 2008.

Gladiator Heels Fashion Shoe Trend

More so, they’re the look of the fashion lovers on the street, and not celebrity inspired. In fact, the only recent celebrity I’ve spotted wearing them has been Rihanna in Balenciaga gladiator boots and peoples’ reaction to the look wasn’t exactly positive.

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Late one Oxford night Daniel P Dykes set about creating a fashion publication that would go someway to being an arbiter on fashion as it appeals to the emerging power generations: those who don't remember a world without the Internet and for whom work plays second fiddle to pleasure. And so Fashionising.com was born as a publication for those who were focussed not just on fashion's trends, but on society's too, and how those trends could all go to heighten the art of living. Hence, Daniel sees a future where, for those young at heart, both fashion and style are grounded in traditional quality, but with a youthful, sensualised edge. Daniel is Fashionising.com's Editor in Chief and Chairman.