I bought these shoes at the opening week of the Amsterdam store. Fabulous colour, style and fit. I'm used to compliments for my shoes but these literally brought on a frenzy. I was staying with a fashion industry bigwig in Paris and he was gobsmacked that even the Parisiennes were stopping me in the street to compliment these shoes - one day I actually counted 14 compliments from strangers in one outing!

The weight distribution of the shoe is excellent and sets your balance on your heels rather than the balls of your foot and so you never get tired feet. Gorgeous and practical!

But on the not so practical.... the soft leather scratches and buffs a LOT. Particularly on the back of the heel. Its as though there's an extra depth there that keeps making me scrape the back of my heels as I go down stairs and the soft leather just rips up. So yes, I can stride around all day getting compliments, but the moment I get to stairs I need to transform into insane shoe protective mode and tip toe sideways.

I had an absolute ball in the Amsterdam store, tried on everything and bought 2 pairs of shoes at full price. Bit shocked to discover afterwards that these at Online CAD price + postage to Australia was not comparable to the bazillion Euro I paid in store. Worse to see them on sale so soon after. Luckily I had a few complimentary champagnes and cupcakes and shoe shopping stories to tell.

I love these shoes! They are my first fluevogs ever and i have a good impression from these shoes! Just watch it with the soft leather, the first time i wore them walking around NYC, they tore. it may be because they are a little big, I am a 6 1/2 in normal shoes and I got a 7.5, but other than that, these are awesome!

I slipped ever so slightly going down some stairs today, and it took an ugly chunk out of the leather AND the colour finish on the heel of this shoe :(. So just beware that the soft leather and the finish on the heel are quite delicate. My slip on the stairs was really not a hard one.