Every British fashionista worth their weight in Manolos is stepping out in this season’s platform (including our new girl crush, presenter and London mover and shaker, Alexa Chung), and designers from Stella McCartney (with her oh-so-seventies wooden split-wedge) and Alessandro Dell’Acqua (and his sky-scraping electric blue platforms) are going wacky for wedges.  Whilst the super-high wedge gives the illusion of Gisele legs, the incorporated platform is forgiving on your poor tootsies after a hard day in the office, and is sturdier than a stiletto for trotting along slippery pavements in rainy British or American weather.

Everyone in the UK is going ga-ga for Christian Louboutin’s divine ‘African Queen’ wedges but we will have to take out a second mortgage to handle he £405 ($806) price tag, so Brits are snapping up Peacocks’ bargaintastic version for £12 ($24.

Block colour is huge for summer, so get yourself down to Topshop, where you’ll find a pair of sunny yellow platforms for £60 ($119), a dead ringer for Miu Miu’s canary shoes, but £190 ($378) less. For disco queens, maybe electric blue is more your thing. And why drop £195 ($389) on Tory Burch’s ‘Shea’ wedges when you can get a similar pair for £12 ($24) from the boudoir of bargains, Primark. My new secret is boohoo.com – We’re mad about their Luella-esque dress, which we will be accessorising with their £20 ($40), hot-pink wedges – did anyone say Philosophy di Alberta Ferretti?