Shoes or pedestals?

I just found these shoes at one of those blogs of passionate fashion women. She said she has to have these... shoes.

I'm not getting it. Are these real shoes?

I've been seeing women walking on things like that and can see that they are having a hard time to put one foot after another.

It seems to me that some fashion items were transformed in objects of desire and the body has to be adjusted to them. After being used twice they go to the decorate the closet.

Elegance lost it's sense or am I missing something?