Shoe & tell

Bollywood hotties have an enviable footwear collection

Heels, flats, platforms, gladiators, sequinned designs and classic monotones, celebs have all this and much more in their footwear collection, thanks to their fetish for shoes.

Happy feet

Celina Jaitly owns around 1,300 pair of shoes. She has been an ardent footwear lover since her childhood days. She would dispose off her hardly-used pairs just so that her parents could buy her new pairs.

Today, she has a separate closet for shoes that include brands like Jimmy Choo, BCBG, Guess, Aldo, Nike, Ugg, Deisel, Bebe, Louis Vuitton, Anne Klien and Marc Jacobs.

While Kim Sharma has lost count of her shoes, Koena Mitra admits she has around 400 pairs. Kim was bitten by this footwear bug since her early modelling days and now owns Kurt Geiger, Marc Jacobs, Guess and Chanel shoes. Koena has been diligently adding to her ever-growing collection since she was in college. She now owns classic footwear from reputed brands like Christian Louboutin and Salvatore Ferragamo.

Kareena Kapoor has a cupboard full of shoes. She is fond of colourful high-heels and buys branded footwear whenever she travels abroad.


Too good to be used

Celina confesses it’s not easy to use all her shoes. “Some are my absolute favourites and I wear them all the time. As for the rest, I just look at them and sigh in extreme happiness,” she smiles.

Neha Dhupia, a self-confessed shoe fanatic, admits that she’s too scared to wear her expensive shoes. She wears them at home, admires herself in the mirror and then tucks them back into her closet.

Most memorable incident

These leggy lasses also take a lot of efforts to add that elusive new pair to their ever-increasing collection. Celina recounts how she shopped till she dropped while she was shooting recently at Canada for Anees Bazmee’s Thank You. “My tooth was aching so I decided to pick up some medicine. I stopped at a chemist but then I saw a shoe shop across the road. I bought 11 pairs of shoes and when I returned to the hotel, I realised I hadn’t bothered to pick up my medicine,” she laughs.

Kim is always in the quest for the right size. She remembers one such incident. “I really liked a pair of gladiators but the store didn’t have my size. I checked out the other outlets. All the sizes were available except mine. This happens with me quite often. It’s funny as well as annoying,” she signs off.