stiletto

In a bejeweled white pantsuit and towering stiletto pumps, Megyn Kelly tried to work the crowd like a rock star.

From Slate ● May 6, 2026

The teaser for the film gives nothing away - the famous red stiletto heel from the first film's promotional poster is appropriately joined by a second, identical shoe.

From BBC ● Jul. 2, 2025

But in the docuseries, the dancers wear narrow-pointed, thin stiletto heels that aren’t necessarily the safest to dance with and increase the risk of injury.

From Salon ● Aug. 24, 2024

Yet unlike the doll of last year’s blockbuster movie, the next pop-culture star who’s about to re-emerge isn’t a statuesque blonde in stiletto heels.

From New York Times ● Apr. 10, 2024

The lizard looked back and a moist stiletto tongue darted in and out.

From "Gathering Blue" by Lois Lowry

Instead of the stilettoes of the 1990s, most looks were paired with platform loafers.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 22, 2023

And, in this summer’s blockbuster movie, “Barbie,” Birkenstocks are the down-to-earth alternative that Barbie is forced to accept over her jeweled stilettoes.

From New York Times ● Sep. 13, 2023

Its strappy stilettoes are worn by celebrity fans including Beyoncé and the Duchess of Cambridge, and were made famous by the fictional Carrie Bradshaw character in the television series Sex and the City.

From The Guardian ● Jul. 25, 2017

Some of it smudges unlucky stilettoes, but most is dutifully tossed into rubbish bins and hauled to landfills, at a cost of over $100 per ton.

From Economist ● Aug. 20, 2015

The young wore embroidered clothes with concealed weapons, an iron ring in the hat, and low morions; besides this, very long rapiers and stilettoes, and in the eastern frontier countries, also Hungarian axes.

From Pictures of German Life in the XVIIIth and XIXth Centuries, Vol. I. by Gustav Freytag

After leaving an interview with Andy Cohen at SiriusXM’s studio, she slides back into her seat and removes her sky-high Louboutin stilettos, taking stock of her aching feet: “That’s going to suck later.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 4, 2026

Andy’s transition from sensible boots to stilettos served as a metaphor for the effort — even discomfort — it takes to chase your dreams, however they might evolve.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 29, 2026

Luckily, Alex Spall, 48, was on time, but requested her guests wore trainers not stilettos, so they too made it safely across the sand to the ceremony.

From BBC ● Apr. 23, 2026

"Watch out for the holes!" one guest warned another about the hazard for stilettos.

From Barron's ● Jan. 29, 2026

So I look down too, to see Mama wearing her leopard print platform stilettos that she bought for her fortieth birthday party at a small club in Bed-Stuy.

From "Pride" by Ibi Zoboi

Before the showcase, Kardashian West has been taking the pieces out for a stilettoed test drive.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 21, 2019

Slim, stilettoed fashionistas and comfort-clad suburbanites gathered around the lounge’s enclosed firepits.

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 4, 2018

Instead of earnest eulogies or prayers for consolation, her drag sisters honored Sahara’s memory by striving to match her classically trained dance skills, cartwheel for cartwheel and kick for stilettoed high kick.

From Slate ● Sep. 18, 2016

Having been stilettoed by a fellow poet, Le Tissier could be forgiven for wanting Hoddle to come back as in his next life.

From BBC ● Jan. 13, 2014

To properly scale Machu Picchu, Simmons, who is known to always be properly stilettoed, “left fashion behind,” opting for her Adidas Stan Smith sneakers.

From New York Times ● Aug. 20, 2013