[HIGHSNOBIETY] At Paris Fashion Week, a Golden Age of Footwear

As the apex of catwalk occasions, Paris Fashion Week typically crowns tomorrow’s trends today, functioning as a first look at the near-future of fashion. But the Fall/Winter 2025 menswear presentations that wrapped in late January were surprisingly of the moment — at least, as far as ankles are concerned. The clothes may have been of next season but the footwear was entirely of the here and now.

Debuted across Paris' many runways and showrooms, the FW25 footwear is a remarkable microcosm of our contemporary footwear landscape, shrinking an immediate birds-eye view into a concise selection of standout shoes.

COMME des GARÇONS-backed cobbler Phileo created resplendent Mary Janes, part craft and part cute.

By Jake Silbert

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