Brand: MSCHF x Crocs
Model: Big Red Boot
Colorway: Yellow
Release Date: August 9, 2023
Price:$450
Buy: MSCHF’s website and MSCHF Sneakers App at 2pm EST via raffle
Style Code: MSCHF010-Y
MSCHF is bursting with good ideas so you can’t blame the art collective for iterating on some of its biggest hits. Following the world-dominating success of the Big Red Boot, MSCHF and Crocs have remade the cartoonish shoes in the shape of SpongeBob.
Meet the MSCHF x Crocs Big Yellow Boot, modeled by Paris Hilton. Seriously.
The queen of Y2K, she of the Juicy Couture velour sweatsuits and UGG boots, stars in the debut campaign for MSCHF and Crocs’ giant yellow Boot, somehow making the enormous rubber non-clog look appropriate for Kill Bill Barbie.
Well, that is when she isn’t clad in a head-to-toe, crystal-encrusted “SLIVING” bodysuit. Paris Hilton will do Paris Hilton, clearly.
Revealed during the most recent round of Paris Fashion Week events, the MSCHF x Crocs Boot is really just a yellow, Crocs-ified version of the original Big Red Boot.
In fact, though the MSCHF x Crocs Boot isn’t red and it’s got all the perforations necessary to distinguish itself from the OG, it’s also just called the Big Red Boot. Presumably the unreleased black iteration of the Big Red Boot will following the same confusing but brand-appropriate naming convention.
Prior to the reveal of the MSCHF x Crocs boot in June 2023, MSCHF confirmed to Highsnobiety that the collaborative yellow shoe is still manufactured by MSCHF in a specialty factory capable of creating the Boot’s thick, one-piece rubber frame.
The Crocs elements — perforations, heel strap — are just thematic additions that add necessary flavor, whereas the nuts and bolts are all MSCHF.
You only realize once you get these things in hand how necessary that distinction is, though: the “Big” in Big Red Boot is for real. These things are thick, heavy, and substantial in a way that the many dupes could never hope to accurately imitate.
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