Personally, I’ve never understood the haute couture sneaker, but then again, I’m a 36-year-old dude who shops almost exclusively at J.Crew Factory. They look like dad sneakers, but they cost $500 or more? What are you paying for, exactly? I don’t get it.
Needless to say, the luxury sneaker trend has recently been driven to its logical conclusion, and given how shell-shocked we’ve become as a society toward bodily fluids, the results are… skin-crawling?
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