THESE SHOES WEREN’T MADE FOR WALKIN’ The upscale clothier Barneys New York recently introduced $585 “Distressed Superstar Sneakers” (from the high-end brand Golden Goose) that were purposely designed to look scuffed, well-worn and cobbled-together, as if they were shoes recovered from a Dumpster. The quintessential touch was the generous use of duct tape on the bottom trim. … [Read more...] about NOTW: Distressed Superstar Sneakers, brain-eating amoebas and accidental hemorrhoid surgery