The Original Ugly Sneaker Is Back
The New York Times
Remember the Isabel Marant wedge sneakers? Everyone wore them — inexplicably. Now the designer has a new version, with an even higher heel.
One day, roughly 10 years ago, the French designer Isabel Marant found herself roadside, arguing her way out of a citation for blowing a red light. “I was quite upset because it was really hidden by a big truck,” Ms. Marant said. She had been pulled over by a pair of officers, one male, one female. He got back in the squad car; she started taking Ms. Marant’s information. “Then she looked at me and said, ‘Are you Isabel Marant, the woman from the sneakers?’” Ms. Marant recalled, amused at the time that a pair of $600 shoes held sway with a traffic cop.
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