Here are two pairs of brown booties I spotted whilst skimming Hypebeast, the latest addition to the Searching for Style Reading List. (Hypebeast is an amazing streetwear product blog, with a lot of amazing running shoes and other cool stuff. The problem is that they publish at least 15 new posts a day, and so it can pile up, and there is no condensed version. Sometimes I erase 50 posts at a time without reading them because it becomes overwhelming.)
Anyway, the two booties are nothing like each other, but I felt they merited a joint post, as they are clearly two opposites on the brown bootie spectrum.
I love…
these incredible brogue-style booties by Makato Taguchi, a recent graduate from London College of Fashion. The details are fantastic, the tone of blue coming out from the perforated leather, the knotted leather strip holding the lower and upper part of the bootie together, and the rope trim between the sole and the boot. Click here to see more pieces from his graduate collection.
I loathe…
this Gucci mountaineering runner. It is so tacky, and it is exactly this type of product that resulted in Gucci being associated with WAGs and blatant logos, rather than fantastic, equestrian-inspired luxury goods.
Both images taken from Hypebeast.
