Toeing the line?

Last year, Julia Roberts made headlines when she ignored the dress code and walked barefoot on the red carpet at Cannes. Even as the festival organisers confirmed that it is obligatory for women to wear high heels to red-carpet screenings, Julia decided to ditch her heels and mock the uptight fashion rules. Floriane doesn’t want her daughters growing up with the notion of heels being seen as a symbol of feminity and that women wear just heels Now, a US-based PR specialist and a mother of three, Floriane Hutchison has decided to take a stand against the unequal footwear choices on your emoji keyboard. Floriane doesn’t want her daughters growing up with the notion of heels being seen as a symbol of feminity and that women wear just heels. “When we as men wear heels, it is to demonstrate how heels is a gender construct, that the burden of heels shouldn’t be on women alone.