A Love Letter to ’90s Shoes Inline
Photo: Courtesy of Margiela1/161990
Okay, so Martin Margiela first showed his signature, cleavage-toe Tabi boot at his Spring 1989 debut, but he produced many iterations over the course of his career, and all of them communicated outsider cool.
Photo: Courtesy of Elektra Entertainment Group2/161990
Platform sole, Louis heel on acid, giant buckle—John Fluevog’s Munster shoe became a club classic, thanks in no small part to its biggest fan, Lady Miss Kier of Deee-Lite. “They summed up the feeling of the time,” designer Fluevog told Vogue. “They were danceable. Wearable, and playful.”
Photographed by Dewey Nicks, Vogue, February 19933/161993
“Model’s own,” the caption for this pic might’ve read. Converse’s classic Chuck Taylors were as essential to a catwalker’s off-duty kit then as they are now.
Photo: Condé Nast Archive4/161993
Leave it to Marc Jacobs to take streetwise Dr. Martens out for a high-fashion stomp.
Photographed by Arthur Elgort, Vogue, December 19935/161993
The modified Birkenstock is no 21st-century phenomenon, contrary to what today’s designers would have you believe. Narciso Rodriguez covered them in cashmere during his early days on the New York scene.
