Black patent pumps carried Paris Hilton through TikTok’s first “Muse of the Year” moment on Thursday in Los Angeles.
Hilton chose a classic pointed-toe silhouette for the TikTok Awards at the Hollywood Palladium, wearing glossy black stilettos with a slim, high heel and closed counters. The pumps’ sharp toe box and glossy finish created a straightforward evening shape with no visible hardware or platform, sitting just below the hem of her asymmetric dress over black fishnet tights.
The shoes did steady work against a much louder dress from The Blonds’ fall 2024 collection. Hilton wore a minidress from the Fuego Rubio collection — an asymmetric flame-red style built from densely sequined panels and curved gold accents, with a plunging front and a jagged, layered skirt. She added more texture with matching opera-length gloves, a sequined neckpiece and her fishnet tights.
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Hilton’s black patent pumps landed in a different lane than many of the season’s other pairs, even as they shared the same pointed toe, high shine and slim heel. Earlier this week, Michelle Obama wore Jimmy Choo’s black patent Ixia pump for a “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” appearance, paired with an aquamarine Hervé Léger bandage dress while promoting her book “The Look.” In September, Reese Witherspoon chose black patent slingback pumps in New York, styling the pointed pair with a navy skirt suit during her “The Morning Show” press run.
Kerry Washington has also leaned on patent for sharper tailoring. At the launch of Audible’s “Prophecy” Season Two in Harlem in October, she wore Christian Louboutin’s Miss Z pump — a 100mm patent style with a slightly wider toe box and the maison’s coated red sole — with a tweed LaQuan Smith skirt suit. Where Obama, Witherspoon and Washington have used black patent pumps to tighten suiting and structured day dresses, Hilton’s pair sat under a sequined minidress and fishnets, putting the same shoe idea to work in full party mode rather than office-adjacent dressing.
At the TikTok Awards, Hilton also presented Creator of the Year after accepting her own trophy for the inaugural “Muse of the Year” Award. The show included a performance from Ciara and a $50,000 donation to Feeding America in honoree Keith Lee’s name, emphasizing the platform’s push to frame its creators — and now its muses — as drivers of both trends and philanthropy.
