Dolly Alderton has launched a range of high heels with Terry de Havilland, while criticising “the internet for making everyone dress the same”.
The 35-year-old author of Everything I Know About Love has collaborated with the British fashion brand on six new retro-inspired shoe styles.
The collection includes a pair of snakeskin ‘Disco’ platform heels, which retail for £300 and are available in blue and red.
The Sunday Times agony aunt’s range also includes two pairs of 1960s-inspired Mary Jane heels for £325.
Meanwhile, Dolly’s ‘Rainbow’ platform heels and ‘Mermaid’ metallic wedges are priced at £375.
All I Know About Love author Dolly Alderton (pictured), 35, has collaborated with the British fashion brand on six new retro-inspired shoe styles.
Writing in the Sunday Times styleThe journalist said she “loves to dress in a fun way” as she criticised social media algorithms for eroding people’s sense of personal style.
The Ghosts author argued: “I can’t remember a time in my life when everyone looked as alike as they do now. They all look the same, I think it’s probably the Internet’s fault.”
‘Realizing that you can set your own rules about what is fashionable and stylish is very liberating.
“I love dressing in a fun way. Even with the simplest outfit, there will always be a part of me that wants to add something fun.”
Terry de Havilland, who founded her eponymous label in 1972, counted Bianca Jagger, Cher and Kate Moss among her celebrity fans.
The ‘rock ‘n’ roll shoemaker’, who was also the shoe designer for The Rocky Horror Picture Show, passed away in November 2019 at the age of 81.
Dolly’s memoir, All I Know About Love, became an instant bestseller when it was published in 2018 and has sold more than 800,000 copies worldwide.
Following the success of her memoir, Dolly published Ghosts, a fictional novel about modern dating, and Good Material, which follows a 35-year-old comedian after his girlfriend abruptly ends their relationship.
The collection includes a pair of snakeskin ‘Disco’ platform heels (pictured), which retail for £300 and are available in blue and red.
The Sunday Times agony aunt range also includes two pairs of 60s-inspired Mary Jane heels for £325 (pictured)
Dolly Alderton’s (pictured) ‘Rainbow’ platform heels with Terry de Havilland retail for £375. In an article published in the Sunday Times Style, the journalist said she “loves to dress in a fun way”.
Dolly Alderton’s ‘Mermaid’ metallic wedges (pictured above) with Terry de Havilland retail for £375
In October 2020, book critic Barry Pierce divided readers when he published a scathing review of Ghosts in the Irish Times.
The critic had no qualms about criticizing the author’s new proposal, calling it “the most culturally relevant novel of 2014” and stating that there are “too many words” in the “thick mayonnaise” of her writing.
In a post on X, Barry wrote: ‘The novel’s scathing comments and biting observations are as pithy as the tweets from which they were recycled.’
In his review, Pierce began by announcing that the novel had left him filled with “nothing but pain and disappointment.”
She reflected that since the book’s topic was Nina’s experience with dating apps, the novel’s subject matter was not current.
“Alderton’s critiques of dating apps surely make Ghosts the most culturally relevant novel of 2014,” he wrote.
Dating apps boomed in 2013 and 2014, giving rise to a glossary of terms such as “ghosting” (when a dating app cuts off all communication without warning), which Alderton drew inspiration from for the title of her novel.
Though she compared it to Norah Ephron’s You’ve Got Mail, starring Meg Ryan and Tom Hanks, Pierce said Alderton’s novel had neither the “timelessness” nor the “charm” of the film.
Comparing Alderton’s prose to “thick mayonnaise”, he also joked that the author’s use of the term “a Durex for your heart” was “mortifying”.
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