I'm interested.
One, because of the Charlie-Sheenness of the over-the-top media circus. It's fun to watch the crazy media wackiness. They always overhype crap like this (or Charlie Sheen, or Paris Hilton etc) while misunderstanding significant things like wars, disasters, etc
Two, because I'm interested in the history of the whole shebang. Lots of interesting history angles in this thing.
Three, it's an amazing business story. I don't give dick about shoes either but it will have a huge effect on teh shoe industry, the dress industry, the fifth-from-the-end-groomsman's cuff links industry - it's fascinating how powerful this stuff is.
Four, it makes me ponder about how much impact these two people are having on the world right how, in their own way. The only way anybody would care much about anything I do is if I were to take a shotgun and let loose on a group of people or something like that (not planning to!). But either of these two sneezes and a lot of things would seriously happen. (sucks to be them) What a crazy world we live in.
Five, paying attention to this is successfully distracting me from working on my taxes, which I haven't started yet.