Searches for black kitten heels were up by 950% over the past year, according to Google Trends, so it’s safe to say the style is having a bit of a moment.

When she’s not in kitten heels, DeSorbo is rocking off-duty styles like sneakers. “I’m always traveling so I have to have a good comfy pair,” she told Us .

Karl Lagerfeld, Marc Jacobs, Roberto Cavalli, Marni—even Jimmy Choo, famous for its sky-high stilettos—are all now adding more 1½-inch kitten heels to their collections.

In 2007, a red-soled Victoria Beckham let rip on kitten heels. “Women see them as the wearable compromise to high heels,” she wrote in That Extra Half An Inch, a fashion memoir she would ...