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.

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Emma Spedding

Spedding is the executive fashion news editor at British Vogue. Emma was the editor at Who What Wear and also has worked at The Telegraph and works at Bauer Media Grazia.

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