Birkenstock x Rick Owens Collab Includes A Shiny Version Of Everyone’s Favorite “Ugly” Sandal

This season, the designer made slight tweaks to Birkenstock’s “ugly” shoe signatures, lengthening the straps on the Arizona sandals and Boston clogs — a stylistic move he introduced in Season 1 — and using shiny leather, rather than the soft, suede iterations you likely wore in middle school (with leg warmers and jean skirts, of course). “I’ve [also] added a sprinkling of riveting on sandals that could have come from one of my favorite Fritz Lang movies,” Owens said in a press release, referring to the Austrian-American filmmaker from the ‘30s and ‘40s.  
By: Eliza Huber