Real Boots — With a Heel — Are Back For Fall 2021

New York Fashion Week is in the middle of its strange, untethered, all-digital experiment. And so far, there’s not a slipper is in sight. All of the designers showing this week, it seems, are looking less to the needs of right now and more to the future. After all, that’s what fashion shows are about, predictions on what will be worn and seen six months from now. Six months happens to be around the time when the CDC predicts that herd immunity will take place and life may return to normal. For footwear, that means real shoes. And not just sneakers, or that new hybrid indoor-outdoor shoe that’s still a slipper at the end of the day. It’s not even an ugly sandal, which has dominated fashionable feet for nearly two year now. No, fall ’21 will be all about a boot. And it will be a statement boot, with a heel. The best so far has come from Ulla Johnson, whose footwear offering is small but always as full of as much embellishment and creativity as is found in her clothing. For fall ’21, the designer did a series of knee boots with a stacked wooden heel, accented with thick, black contrast stitching

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