I have an alternating love-hate relationship with Jeffrey Campbell. I don’t need to state the obvious (designers can’t get copyright protection for items considered to be utilitarian so they lose moolah when people rip off their pieces [nothing new happening here]), so I’ll just say this: His price point feels unreasonably high for a batch of shoes that typically reeks of polyurethane and high-low skirts. And other retailers get called out on their copies all the time (Nasty Gal just removed its Givenchy Rottweiler lookalike from the site), so how does he always slide through? Jeff, tell us your secrets!

Now that my mini-rant is complete, let’s move on to the love part.

JC’s copy of Alexander Wang’s ankle-strap Liya is pretty damn good. It’s almost I-don’t-have-any-morals-I’m-buying-those-babies-anyway-judge-me-all-you-want good.

But don’t actually judge me. I’m weak.