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Home · Fashion

2011: The Best Sky-High Heels

2011: The Best Sky-High Heels
By · Updated October 28, 2020
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Leopard Love

Leopard print has become a wardrobe staple. Nicole Richie gets our seal of approval shopping for these.

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Leopard Love

Beyonce had the most sightings in 2011 wearing the highest heels. Impressive for this mother-to-be.

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Sculpted Shoes

Nicki Minaj takes the cake in these candy-colored triple platforms by Versace at the 54th Annual Grammy Nominations Concert.

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Sculpted Shoes

We heart Fefe Dobson’s sculptural wedges the 22nd Annual MuchMusic Video Awards. Loving the entire look!

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Sculpted Shoes

Jennifer Hudson tip-toes fabulously to the London ITV Studios in metallic snakeskin booties.

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Sculpted Shoes

In metallic-blue futuristic Versace platforms, Eva Pigford’s look at the MTV Music Awards is out of this world.

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Sculpted Shoes

Gorgeous Thandie Newton is chic in Louis Vuitton’s geometric platform wedges at the Parisienne fashion house’s Bond Street party in London.

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Sculpted Shoes

Who better than Nicki Minaj to bring the drama? At the AMA’s she floats on Alexander McQueen heels.

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The Colored Platform

Beyonce treads lightly in these killer turquoise pumps while out and about.

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The Colored Platform

Kelly Rowland steps out in her Christian Louboutin blue suede shoes for the ‘X Factor’ London.

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The Colored Platform

Rosario Dawson adds a big splash of red to her white lace gown at the the annual garden party to commemorate the fundraising work of Raisa Gorbachev in London, England.

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The Colored Platform

In a sea of color, June Ambrose opts for red suede platforms to complete her look at the ‘ARISE African Collective’ at New York Fashion Week.

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The Colored Platform

Our favorite girlfriend Tracy Ellis Ross looks hot at the BET Awards in red suede stilettos.

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The Colored Platform

Jennifer Williams is no stranger to sky-high heels. At her ‘Lucid’ lipgloss launch she was pretty in pink.

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The Colored Platform

Paula Patton’s booties were the main attraction at the Spain premiere of ‘Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol.’

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The Colored Platform

June Ambrose brings the drama to New York Fashion Week from head-to-toe in beautiful leather wine-colored platforms.

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Naughty Nude

Nude is the new black. Ciara joins the nude Louboutin club in her Daffodile pumps at Paris Fashion Week.

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Naughty Nude

Chris Bosh’s wife Adrienne is all dolled-up in Christian Louboutin’s maryjane platforms at the premiere of HBO’s Boardwalk Empire.

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Naughty Nude

Selita Ebanks wears her nude maryjanes with a modern-day geisha ensemble at Pure Nightclub in Vegas.

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Glitz & Glam

At the New York screening of ‘We Need to Talk About Kevin,’ Jewelry Designer Genevieve Jones dazzles us in patent pumps with crystal studded heels.

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Glitz & Glam

Beyonce steals the show court side in glitzy Louboutins.

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Back to Black

At the ‘Burberry Body’ launch Solange Knowles rocks the British designer from head to beaded platform.

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Back to Black

Melanie Fiona is too cool in her leather look from top to toe at BET’s ‘106 & Park.’ The pointed platforms are hot!

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Back to Black

These ladies are sitting pretty in platforms during New York fashion Week.

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Back to Black

On Toronto’s ‘MuchMusic’ television program, Keri Hilson keeps it classic in black leather platform pumps.

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Back to Black

These super cute cork platforms make actress Malika Haqq look hippie chic.

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Stand Tall

At the 2011 BET Awards it’s a black and white affair for Alicia Keys in stacked striped platforms.

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Stand Tall

Jennifer Williams is no stranger to a sky-high heel. Here, she’s pretty in pink.

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Stand Tall

Beyonce stepped out fiercely showing some animal instinct in leopard platforms.

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Stand Tall

Who better than Nicky Minaj to bring the drama floating on Alexander McQueen heels.

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Stand Tall

Beyonce stands 6.3 inches taller in Christian Louboutin Daffodile pumps.

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