Thoughts and prayers go out to Katie Holmes’s Miu Miu ballerinas, which are among the hardest working shoes in show business. These industrious flats have been a constant in the actor’s wardrobe since surfacing in Miuccia Prada’s spring/summer 2016 collection, and were truffled out on at least two occasions in the last week alone: first at the Blink Twice after-parties, and then for a stroll around New York yesterday afternoon.
Here is a non-exhaustive list of the other events these shoes have appeared at: a Manhattan pap walk earlier this month; an American Ballet Theatre performance of Like Water For Chocolate and the Theatre World Awards in June 2023; and Alan Cummings’s cabaret show in March 2024. The patent leather surface has, for reasons that are obvious, begun to peel from the toes. But this, to me, is a shoe in its ideal state, well-weathered in a way that says, “I lead a rich outer-life.