Behold the glory of the Christian Louboutin candy spiked flats.  The combination of the striped bow, mini spike points and side lace effect is almost too much for my flat loving heart to bear.

While I searched low and high for a high street substitute, I just couldn’t find anything reasonably close to this design. 

I can imagine by January we’ll have something (perhaps from Topshop?) of a decent substitute, but for now you’re going to have to suffer with the rest of us and dream.

They are nearly $700 US, after all – though wouldn’t it be nice to be able to drop seven bills on a pair of everyday flats!