Just in time for summer, Y to the S to the L pimps another tribute to his “Tribute” It shoe —

Closed-toe and suede piped with patent leather, it’s the perfect platform for me to preach upon: the same ladies paying tribute to YSL’s “Tribute” with eBay fees and waste-of-time wait lists will be fawning over flats come fall double-oh-seven. Less because they can’t rock 75mm stilletto — I never saw that wobbling, no worries, lovely — and more because fashion is really that O. Wildean world in which it’s so ugly they must alter it every six months, and even more because they’ve already traded their drainpipe denim they swore they never wore for an equally unflattering pair of extra-wide jeans.

Even when fashion falls back on flats — give it five — I’m sticking to stylized stilts.

I’ve always dug drag queen-high heels more out of a masculine desire to tower as tall as possible, and less out of a femme concern of what other ladies might think, or even out of vague vanity for my legs.

Though Monsieur YSL does pay glorious tribute to both.