For the first time in five years since he launched his collections, Nicholas Kirkwood has created a line of flat shoe designs.

Jak & Jil recently snagged a preview of Nicholas Kirkwood’s Spring 2010 footwear collection, and I must say, things are looking a bit juvenile and pixelated. Not sure how I feel about the obnoxiously bright and bold colors, but it’s Kirkwood, someone’s bound to love them! What do you think?

A closer look at the amazing shoes created by Nicholas Kirkwood for Rodarte Spring 2010.

Watch out Kirkwood, Louboutin, Blahnik…Chau Har Lee has you beat on all accounts, including innovation, design, and originality.

Don’t I wish…

Nicholas Kirkwood debuted his shoe collection in 2005, and has been a force in the industry ever since. His shoe philosophy follows:

“It’s about silhouettes… It’s about the shape of the last and about the shape of the actual pattern that’s drawn onto the last, and color or material combinations. I don’t use anything that’s stuck onto the shoe. In certain ways it’s architectural, I suppose. Old-fashioned buildings like to be very decorative on the outside, but the basic shape is still a block, whereas modern buildings are more concerned about the actual shape of the building itself, rather than what’s put on as ornamentation. That’s sort of the way I try to think of my shoes in a sense, especially when it comes to the heels.”