Burnished sienna and coffee colors are natural hues for the season, but when they are enveloped in architectural platforms and a modern twist on mod back-zip booties they become a necessity. The Couture team is lusting after CoSTUME NATIONAL's conical heels, buttery soft leathers, daring height (can you say five inches?) platforms and the dual texture booties. Our picks: CoSTUME NATIONAL brandy-hued peep toe platform and their moro-hued suede and leather bootie.

We here at Couture often give our viewpoints on fashion and trends as part of our ongoing reporting duties, but this time around we want you dear reader, to tell us what you think about certain fashion and trends. Share with us your favorite shoe style and tell us why?

It is the dawning of the Age of Aquarius... Okay not really, but it is the dawning of a new era at the Delman company. The iconic shoe brand, known for their exquisite quilted flats, will be celebrating more than its 90th anniversary next year, it will also be celebrating a top-to-bottom makeover. The brand, owned by Nina Footwear Group, made its first industry shoe print in the early 1900s and grew steadily well into the ‘90s. With the brand having a slowdown in sales and facing a changing customer demographic, new management was put in place, as well as a younger, hipper designer placed at the helm. This formula proved to be a winning mix, giving the brand better positioning and the appropriate energy injection that was needed. The payoff? A more modern design aesthetic resulting in hipper, more youthful styles, a new fan base, and more streamlined business operations. In recent months, the new designs have generated a lot of buzz for the brand, as well as having countless celebrities photographed in their shoes, both on and off the red carpet.

Here at Couture.Zappos.com, we did not need the generated buzz to know the label is a great discovery. From the Mona patent flats (a favorite of actress Brooke Shields) to the Stella slingback pumps, to the multi-hued patent leather chunky heeled sandals, there is something for everyone to love. What are we loving now? The Stella peep toe platform slingback pumps in black patent leather with a silver platform, the Mona patent leather round toe flats in navy, and the Gaiety-S suede boot with buckle detailing in chocolate.

Giddy am I that Alexander Wang, the East Village wunderkind of edgy downtown fashions, is premiering his first shoe line along side a diffusion line this fall. These lust-worthy, towering, textured platforms and sky-high heels will premier alongside his Spring 2009 fashion collection during New York Fashion Week. The collection of shoes will start small with a launch of just five styles that have a sigh-inducing (in a good way) price point of $125 to $250. The styles will include an open toe, thong sky-high heel platform, a perforated leather bootie and a stiletto high-heel with fringe around the ankle. Of course, this good news comes on the high heels (pardon the pun) of his popular capsule collection for Uniqlo, the Japanese version of TopShop, which featured his grunge aesthetic of lived-in T-shirts with their stretched necklines and lowered armholes, tank tops and T-shirt dresses. I’m not sure yet what his Spring 2009 collection will bring, but if it picks up where his fall collection off, I am already smitten.

Gentlemen, who doesn’t love an upstart that blazes an assured trail with bold designs and old world cobbler techniques? That is the exact reason to love Harrys of London, the 2001 new kid on the block that married radical vision, traditional techniques and luxury design for men to a new forefront with their signature Jet Slipper shoe — the decadent loafer with a soft leather sole fit for a prince or a
G5 flight.

The company is not only smart in its design philosophy and selection of luxury fabrics and skins, but in their management choices, as well. They hired a former design director at Ralph Lauren Footwear and Giorgio Armani, Kevin Martel, to build their burgeoning hybrid luxury brand into a full lifestyle collection. With the latest incarnation of the Jet Slipper, the re imagining of classic oxford styles, the new online store, a New York showroom and a store set to open in Mayfair, I would say he has been a success in shepherding the brand onward and upward.

As luck would have it, one of our very own savvy style stars and buyers, Scott J., was able to secure the brand for us here at Zappos.com, so no man need be without a pair. Our faves: the Jet Moc slipper, the Blake navy boat shoe and the cool yet sophisticated Charlie perforated spat design.