When it comes to metallic shoes, I have one hard and fast rule - the heel can't match the shoe.

 

There's just something inherently tacky about silver shoes with silver heels; it's overkill that falls definitively into the too much of a good thing category. Which means that metallic shoe shopping is a near impossibility for me as I scrutinize heels, hoping to find a sparkling silver sandal complemented by a wooden stiletto or a bronze gladiator atop a black spike.

Enter Michael Kors, who has been dazzling me more and more of late, and his Gansevoort Platform Sandal. The Gansevoort is the ideal silver sandal, boasting goldtone hardware, a silver leather body and a stacked sky high heel; OPI's "Dim Sum Plum," a deep fuchsia from the Hong Kong collection really pops with the metallic Gansevoort.