Sneex Makes Oprah’s 2024 Favorite Things Holiday List

Sneex has been voted one of Oprah’s Favorite Things of 2024. 

Founded by Spanx founder Sara Blakely as a newly-released startup venture, Sneex has been in the works for nine years, something she has spoken about via her website and Instagram. Surrounding her focus on comfortable footwear, the brand’s standout product is a sneaker-stiletto hybrid (also called hy-heels), which are made in Spain and feature a 78mm heel, napa leather, Italian mesh and suede materials. 

The footwear line has also become a favorite of Oprah’s longtime friend Gayle King. This past August, King invited Blakely onto her show “CBS Morning,” sharing posts on Instagram afterwards where she raved about the shoe, including a video of her pushing a suitcase through the airport while rocking a pair of green Sneex saying people stopped her to ask where she purchased them.

The official Sneex statement via Oprah’s Favorite’s Things reads: 

“Sara Blakely, the woman who brought us Spanx, thought, What if I made high heels as comfortable as sneakers? It took almost ten years, and the innovation is how it redistributes the weight off the ball of your foot. The result is a shoe Gayle wore for 12 hours straight!” 

According to the website, the goal of their footwear is the overall design and structure of the shoes, which includes re-engineered weight distribution, a comfortable toe box and arch support to address the major pain issues of wearing traditional high heeled shoes.

“Back in start up mode. Let’s GOOOO! Another company with boxes in the garage. Reliving my [Spanx] days for sure. Only this time I actually have a garage. When I started Spanx I was in an apartment and they left all the boxes on my front porch. Oh… and I’ve got 4 kids in start-up mode now,” she captioned in an Instagram post back in August.

“Sneex are my love letter to every woman who has taken her shoes off at a party, who wears flats to work with heels in her bag, who thought her days of wearing heels were over,” she also says in a statement on the Sneex site.