A decade later, at 38, Sykes reflected that "when you hit 30 you lose your edge": invited by the "Times" to comment on the late-1990s trend for ultra-high heeled shoes, she observed that "these weird space-age shoes look cool and trendy and are a way of getting back to some degree", but that "this type of trend is not a classic version of beauty. Men want women to be sexy. They'd be happy if we were all model Gisele Bündchen, but that's just not fashion".