Now 'odd' even cool

Mismatched shoes are suddenly a fashion statement, not the sleepy accident of the absent-minded.

Let us start by pointing out that the correct fashion term for this trend is "mismatched shoes", not odd ones. Wearing "odd shoes", apparently, implies that when you put those two, non-identical brogues on your feet this morning, it was an accident.

The fashion statements made by the street style set at Paris fashion week in February and on social media right now, are entirely deliberate.