Move over, Carrie Bradshaw. There’s another famous New Yorker who is enamored of high heels — Mayor Bloomberg.
“If I were a woman, I think I would wear high heels,” the mayor was quoted as saying at a recent cocktail party for Tamara Mellon, co-founder of the Jimmy Choo label of high-end heels that made the “Sex and the City” character swoon.
“I like women and I think that they look stunning in high heels — not that they look bad without high heels. I wouldn’t criticize anybody,” Bloomberg said, according to The New Yorker.
The outgoing mayor, who at 5-foot-6 is considerably shorter than girlfriend Diana Taylor, insisted: “I don’t care if a woman is taller than me, with or without heels.”
One of those familiar with the mayor’s fondness for women in heels is City Council Speaker Christine Quinn.
In a profile of Quinn published in New York Magazine, she disclosed Bloomberg recommended she wear the lifts and would yell at her when she turned up in flats.
“We have a conversation and joke about it. There’s nothing wrong with that,” Bloomberg said.