Katie Holmes Joins Hollywood’s Cork Wedge Conspiracy

Hollywood is a strange and secretive hinterland where celebrities—or perhaps their stylists—move quickly to push the same hyper-specific fashion items in quick succession. And over the past fortnight, that is what seems to have happened with the cork wedge: a shoe synonymous with people who wear maxi-dresses at local bake sales.

After the wedge star revoluton that Amal Clooney created we saw Katie Holmes with a woven basket bag slung across her torso, the latter hit the pavements of New York this weekend in an inconspicuous APC peep-toed slab, which is to say: not all wedges are made equal. Unlike Jones and Clooney and Peltz Beckham—whose vertiginous shoes telegraphed a jet-set glamour with broderie anglaise two pieces and chiffon gowns—Holmes and Depp have worn them with faded t-shirts and jeans while running errands. It looks a little more informal, a little less ‘I’m the protagonist of a whodunit based in Portofino’ than the high-octane versions usually worn at all-inclusive hotels.