• Karl Lagerfeld
Aug 1, 2012 2:40 PM EDT
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Amazing: Fashion Celebrities & Their Olympic Body Doubles

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Alexander McQueen's armadillo shoes are most like...Japanese gymnast Asuka Teramoto.

These 10-inch stunners pretty much topped out the competition in terms of jawdroppingly tall heels, but Japan's teeny-tiny gymnast — who is 4 feet, 6 inches tall — can do some serious tumbling, and we're not talking the kind we'd we'd be doing after trying to strut in these bad boys. We'd like to side with shoes so dangerous that the models refused to walk in them, but at the end of the day, they're just not as shiny as the promise of a gold medal. Sigh.

Photo: Via The Met

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