Cinderella can attest to the power of the shoe. Transforming distorting, contorting, disfiguring and revealing more about a woman then any other accessory, women's shoes are the literal trappings of the modern age. Not too far removed from the foot binding daze that plagued china for centuries, shoes still cripple, empower, and hurt like hell..

The new shoes by Laura Jacobs are straight out of a modern fairy tale. With titles like "Pluck Me Pumps" , "Ack! Shoe Puncture" and "Slipper A Pill" these little iron maidens, divulge as much as any other torturous reflection of wealth power and success. What women will put up with.