ALDO are continuing their objective for autumn/winter 2012, to ensure fashion designers have the ability to create and showcase the footwear they envision for their collections. Last season I just had to have the ALDO RISE x Libertine Distressed Wedges, and this season I’ve got my eye on Preen’s collection.

London-based design duo Justin Thornton and Thea Bregazzi have created these romantic towering heels (6.25 inches to be exact), in beautiful floral prints, botanical patterns and also more minimal block colours. Although still deciding which I love most, I cannot wait to get my hands on a pair.

Alongside Preen, ALDO RISE have teamed up with New York based designer, Patrik Ervell this season. After sucess with his menswear collections, Ervell showcased his first womenswear collection this autumn/winter 2012, which was inspired by police and military uniforms. So it makes sense that he uses a lot of leather, but he also introduces unusal fabrics such as vintage parachutes, horsehair and gold foil. He then pushed his vision to create functional footwear.

“The Fall/Winter 12 collection had to do with uniforms that had a kind of police academy feeling,” says Ervell. “I think the video has a suggestion of that kind of setting. An academy of sorts but in an alternate world or possibly a future world. Also, watching people fly around in my clothes was pretty amazing.”