Blame it on the shoes. When label-obsessed fashion reporter Alex Simons can't find her favorite black Manolo Blahniks that perfectly complement her Tuesday outfit, she's just beside herself! Fashion Week in Paris can't go on if she doesn't have the perfect accessories to get her in the frame of mind to sit through show after show. Luckily for her, Paris is teeming with shoe boutiques, all easily within walking distance. While espying a pair of black Louboutins at Bon Marché, Alex randomly runs into her former French teacher from her high school back in Texas. Little does she know, this chance encounter is about to send her whole world spinning...

Late to the Chanel show, Alex hastily tries to take her seat before the models make it down the runway. Thinking that a shortcut across the catwalk should do the trick, Alex trips on her new heels and lands face first into supermodel Katyarina's cleavage. Humiliated and horrified, Alex scurries back to her hotel as fast as her stilettos will carry her.

Fortunately, Alex doesn't have to wait long before the fashion world's attention is diverted to the next scandalous story. Handsome young Nick Snow happens to start his own domino effect at a Givenchy show, knocking the wind out of and the wig off of famous fashionista Arianna Sidebottom. Alex is back in business!

Over the next few days, these star-crossed lovers will get thrown together repeatedly as an up-and-coming designer has the most fabulous opening show in the history of fashion, ends up missing the next night and Alex somehow ends up promising to find him. Mix in some secret passwords, American reality television and a blindfold or two, and you've got yourself one heck of a scoop!

While Julie K. L. Dam has all the elements for a really exciting story (Mystery! Suspense! Romance! Fashion!), the transition from scene to scene doesn't flow smoothly. Regardless, fans of such titles as THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA and FASHIONISTAS will enjoy this similar venture into the world of fashion.