Super-high heels can free women, says legendary French shoe designer Christian Louboutin, who insists that wearing his towering six-inch stilettos is a "form of liberty". While some feminists see ...

The Miss KG 'Goldie' platforms, which come in sparkly black or gold, measure up at a staggering 15cm - a heel height so extreme that few footwear manufacturers, till now, would actually make them.

The shoes were so high she had to be assisted down the stairs by her minder. She then flew to Berlin and was snapped in a pair of brogues by Burberry and later the same day she wore a mini-dress ...

"No shoe with a 12cm (5 inch) heel is comfortable... but people do not come to me looking for a pair of slippers," said Louboutin, who helped bring high heels back into fashion in the 1990s and 2000s.