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Fashion: Style 101.(shoe trends)(Brief Article)

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Stop the presses! Flats are gaining ground among the fashionable.

Even when hobbled by an injured toe, director Sofia Coppola stays half a step ahead of the trends. At the Golden Globe Awards, she wore flats with an Azzedine Alaia dress, an unorthodox pairing if ever there was one. And this spring, designers such as Marc Jacobs, Miuccia Prada, Michael Kors -- and, yes, even Manolo Blahnik -- have fallen for flats. "The new styles are cut low to reveal so much of the upper foot, with plenty of toe cleavage, that they're as sexy ...

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