Zendaya’s stylist, Law Roach, trained her to wear painful Christian Louboutin heels when she was a teenager. In 2024, he told the Cutting Room Floor podcast, “I think that the So Kate is one of the most versatile shoes. It’s also one of the most painful. It actually started when she was, like, 14, and I remember she had these So Kates on all day. It’s the first time she’d ever worn them, and she was collapsing. She’s like, ‘I have to take these shoes off.’ I’m like, ‘You will not take these shoes off.’ And she kept them on, and the next day she put them on again, and the next day she put them on again. So, it kind of became our thing, and now, her feet are just kind of, like, trained… She could wear them all day. She could dance in them, she could kick her legs up, she could run downstairs.”