The Charm Effect: How to Accessorize Your Shoes

The Removable Bows for Cadi, Addie and Dora add detail without overwhelming the silhouette. Think of them the way you might think of changing your earrings or tying a ribbon in your hair: one small switch, noticeably different result.

Wear the shoes without the bow when you want the look to stay simple. Add it when the outfit could use a little more personality.

That makes removable shoe bows particularly useful for pairs you wear often. Instead of saving a decorative shoe for one kind of outfit, you can decide how dressed-up you want it to feel each time.

Once you’ve tried a bow, things can get a little more playful.

The Woodland Bloom Charm Set (Petra) and Bloomies Charm Set (Lindie) bring flowers down to your feet, adding texture and personality to otherwise familiar shoes.

Florals also have a useful habit of changing depending on what you wear them with.

Blooms with denim? Playful.

Blooms with a dress? A little more romantic.

Blooms against clean tailoring?

Suddenly they’re the unexpected part of the outfit.

And because they are removable, the shoe never has to stay in one mood.

Bows and flowers aren’t the only options.

The Seraphine Jewels Ribbon Laces & Charm Set, created as part of the VIVAIA × New York City Ballet collaboration, brings ribbon laces and a removable jewel into the mix for Sneakerinas and flats.

It is a different kind of shoe customization: less cutesy, a little more dressed up.

You can swap in the ribbon, add the jewel, use both, or go back to the original styling whenever you feel like it.

The result is still the pair you started with. It just has somewhere else to go.

The holiday season is also one of the rare times of year when “a little extra” needs almost no justification.

So if your calendar is filling up, consider this the quick version:

• Office party: add a bow.

• Dinner or drinks: try Seraphine Ruby or Diamond.

• Family gathering: bring out the blooms.

• Shopping for someone who already owns a VIVAIA pair? A compatible charm or accessory set gives them another way to wear it.