Five of the Most Hair-Raising Releases This Year
Lock your doors and tie your shoelaces quadruple knot – it’s spooky season! 2023 has brought hordes of blood-curdling, toe-curling footwear, so we thought we’d better lock them all in an air-tight basement together. Grab your baseball bats, barbed wire, and whatever else you can muster, these are the most hair-raising releases of the year! Hell, even Victor Frankenstein is envious of these diabolical creations.
The Big Red/Yellow Boot
Run for your ever-loving lives! Like a supernatural serial killer forever stalking the neighbourhood, the utterly obscene Big Red Boot has been on a rampage in 2023. In June, perpetual provocateurs took things to a whole new level at Paris Fashion Week, enlisting the help of Estonian rapper Tommy Cash to crash the show. Dressed as a mime and rocking the , the larger-than-life moment was instantly inserted into meme culture. Enough to send a shiver down your spine (and a hairline fracture through your ankle), the Big Red/Yellow Boot is one of the most horrifying footwear conceptions ever imagined.
Balenciaga Cargo
Good luck once the Cargo starts busting through your front door – you’ll never make it to the bedroom! A corpulent beast with bone-splitting soles, this bloated bloodbath will swallow everything in its path. You’re going to need more than standard-issue military cargo to annihilate these once and for all.
Crocs Cowboy Boot
These boots are made for walkin’… on an army of undead bodies! These buckwild offspring are from the lawless folks at and these are up for a rootin-tootin’ good time this Halloween (provided you can find a Falstaffian friend to act as your noble steed). The best part? The boots even feature a removable spur to hunt the hordes of undead cowboys ransacking the frontier.
Nike SB Dunk High ‘Candy Corn’
Planning on going trick or treating this year? This could be your wicked ride-or-die. Taking inspiration from the popular confectionary devoured throughout Halloween, this colourway is causing all kinds of tooth decay. Drawing comparisons to the legendary ‘Rayguns’ from the archive, these really should be zapped by sci-fi space pistols before they rot your gums!
Cactus Plant Flea Market x Nike Air Flea
If you’ve never tripped on desert cacti, then here’s your chance. are slinging mind-altering product more dubious than your local dealers. Rattling into our feeds with hulking, militant-kitsch SUV tread soles (cc: Balenciaga Defender), the is equipped with neck-cranking removable JUMBO Swooshes and a duo of industrial lockdown straps. Have you ever wondered what Morpheus and Co were doing in the Nebuchadnezzar while the machines were busy recharging? Binge drinking Dozer’s dual-action booze and designing these.