These are great.
I'm a functionalist at heart. Yes, form is important and even essential, but I can't stand items (clothes, objects, etc.) if they contradict their function. (Unless we're talking about art--which I suppose fashion can be--but that first video is more "America's Funniest Home Movies" than it is art or even slapstick). It's not that function trumps all, but that form and function shouldn't exclude each other.
I also loved the street-style scene in the second video!
Thanks for putting a smile on me on an otherwise tough, exhausting, dreary night.
PS. Platforms in general, even not in icy conditions, I don't understand. Except on a Carnival parade. I don't really find the look appealing, but I suppose it's a matter of taste. More to the point, a friend of mine slipped when wearing platforms (not nearly as high as these ones); she was just walking down the hall in her house. She had such a complicated, awful fracture of her leg and ankle bones, she needed surgery, screws (is that what they're called?), months and months of physical rehab and a very painful recovery. Her orthopedic surgeon told her that these fractures are common with platform shoes--it's the platform (had she slipped on regular stilettos it wouldn't have been so bad).
