Pretty Ugly? Balenciaga brings next level beauty to the feet 👣

The Spanish luxury brand Balenciaga really unleashed the beast when they featured the ‘ToeShoe’ back in Oc{toe}ber at Paris Fashion Week 2020.

Some might say that this is somewhat an usual collaboration for a luxury brand, but the obvious avenues of celebrity~collabs~endorsers, are truly feeling worn out now and hopefully sliding into a thing of the past. Surely brands that decide to step out of the box to become the box should be applauded so take a bow~now Balenciaga, for the creative team really have dug deep here by teaming up with Vibram.

“It is all about Soles“ says VIBRAM

An Italian next level footwear brand with a remarkable founder Vitale Bramani an extraordinary hugely talented mountaineer, who basically wanted to make climbing easier on the feet. He designed and patented the Carrarmato sole in 1937, and since then his designs have evolved into running shoes uniquely created and undeniably resembling the ‘barefoot’ by heavily emphasising the ‘human toes’. As featured on their website https://eu.vibram.com Vibram developed ‘FiveFingers’, a foot glove, a true “second skin”, revolutionizing the concept of walking barefoot and voted by Time Magazine as one of the “Best Invention of 2007”.

Visually not sophisticated fashion but definitely a connection to the prehistoric times when man walked barefoot and feet coverings seized to exist.

Taking us back to our ‘soles’ could be a good thing and quite possibly the message through creativity reads: ‘ugly is still beautiful’ which of course is in full-agreement by many. I would say the need would be to add: raised areas for the corns on the toes and truly take us to the raw reality of human feet, and throw in extra cushioning for that hard skin on the heel, what a winner.

Creative Director Demna Gvasalia, heads up the Spanish design house Balenciaga https://www.balenciaga.com/gb and what they’ve done is elevated the ‘Toe Shoe’ by basically throwing a heel on the sock~sneaker, and now we have booties too. Those couple goals can easily be met: for he can wear the sneakers and she can wear the heels —- actually let’s swap: men can wear heels too and of course females have long been running alongside males in the sneaker game and I think they’re not actually…. In other words we can of course wear what we want to that’s not my point so stay calm on the comments please {be kind yeah}. Personally the cost is heavy £1.1k {approx} per pair with heel or sneaker style, which is way over my budget and I don’t know if looking like an animal or creature on my feet does anything for me — apparently guys are going wild for them. We all love nature but does this mean that the lizard~Iguana look is here to stay? Furthermore, some have already taken the plunge like Rihanna, yes she did it and shot the heel sock — got to say she could make a reel of thread look stylish {love her vibe}.

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Look out humans you might possibly see feet like these down the aisle in Waitrose, or on the tube, sitting right opposite you.. just don’t panic it’s fine after all we are only human.

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What’s your thoughts—leave me a comment be honest.. For me, the toes just make me want to drag out a palette of polishes and start painting them {giggle} and on that note I shall not be investing.

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