The girl in the golden boots

The Dead Weather are on Conan tonight (he's turned me into a late-night talk show watcher with this new Tonight Show gig: love it - especially considering it comes on at 10:35 here, if that's even late night at all ...) and Allison Mosshart looks amazing. Her hair is super-dark and she has on a black cutaway jacket with large flat studs. Amazing.

When I saw The Kills open for the Raconteurs last fall, I couldn't take my eyes off Allison. There's something about how she holds herself - her confidence really shows through in the way she moves, not to mention how she dresses.

Among the things that transfixed me at the show was her faaabulous cuban heeled gold boots (she wore them tonight, too). In fact, seeing her in them, wearing them with tight black jeans and a long-ish leopard top and thin scarf, inspired me to find some of my own, dammit. When I was in NYC last October, I went to Trash & Vaudeville and found a pair of winkle pickers (very mod short booties, skinny at the ankle and super pointy), which also have that wonderful heel. But they were just too perfect looking. The key to her look, it seemed, was the careful imperfection of it all.

So, I searched everywhere on the internet for info on them and was thrilled to finally find out a few months ago via Derek Blasberg's interview with Allison in, um, Interview. You can read the whole thing here or check out this portion of the back-and-forth, including her propensity to re-wear favorite pieces ad naseum:

BLASBERG: The jeans you’re wearing look familiar.

MOSSHART: Embarrassingly enough, I think these are the exact same jeans I’ve worn on the past two tours.

BLASBERG: And the gold boots?

MOSSHART: I love my gold boots. Hedi Slimane made these, and now I have three pairs of the gold, plus pairs in every other color, in black, in patent. I have a friend [at Dior] who reorders a pair for me whenever mine get tired. I challenge anyone to show me a boot I like better.

Of COURSE they're custom-made by Hedi Slimane. Drat. If I wasn't so into her music and love clocking her look so much, I'd be hating on her right now.