Ariana Grande Wins the “Ugly”-Shoe Pattern With These Deflated-Balloon Heels

Ariana Grande’s newest heels actually pop. In an Oct. 23 Instagram gallery, the singer and actor drew footwear inspiration from the land of Oz, buying and selling ruby slippers for a pair of yellow Loewe heels lined in deflated balloons. The imaginative footwear function hand-embroidered bunches of latex, with balloons sewn onto 3.5-inch heels to create a singular, bubbly texture. Except for the unconventional medium and puffy exterior, the borderline comical footwear are additionally lined in leather-based (not that you could possibly actually inform).

Grande’s ft virtually disappeared inside rubber mountains of untimely social gathering decor. She let the balloons have their second, styling them down with light-wash denims and a comfortable sweater. Different celebrities braving the identical footwear leaned into the drama, resembling Indya Moore, who wore the heels with a draped minidress at Loewe’s fall present throughout Paris Trend Week. Regardless of who they’re worn by, the heels are a chief instance of the “ugly”-shoe pattern — an more and more common motion lifting up uncommon footwear and difficult what’s and is not aesthetically acceptable.

Because of Inventive Director Jonathan Anderson, the balloon footwear, aptly referred to as the Comedian Balloon Pump, aren’t Loewe’s first enterprise into the avant-garde. Beforehand, the style home debuted sandals made fully out of pom-pom tinsel, heels draped with large bows, and chunky pumps that seem like they belong to Minnie Mouse. “It is basic Jonathan genius, this playful sort of nostalgia,” Greta Lee instructed Harper’s Bazaar after sporting a pair of the tinsel footwear herself, noting Anderson’s use of progressive supplies on leather-based. “It virtually appears to be like like armor however it additionally sort of appears to be like like pores and skin.”

In Grande’s case, possibly the balloon footwear do function armor of kinds. Or possibly they’re simply reminders to not take something in life too severely. In any case, scroll by her publish to see how she introduced the social gathering in a pair of her personal.