Yay or Neigh? McQueen’s Hoof Boots Are Put to the Take a look at

Each Style Month, which is presently underway with the presentation of spring 2025 collections, there are particular equipment that emerge as a avenue model favourite. Final September, it was all concerning the Martine Rose x Nike sneakers—which have been noticed on the ft of many fashionable showgoers—and in February, MSCHF’s massive, crimson boots emerged because the stunning fan-favorite. Usually, the breakout shoe of is one that’s daring and head-turning (Style Month is prime time for peacocking, in any case). And this season, a wonderfully-wacky boot has entered the chat for a attainable new take-over: Meet the McQueen hoof boot.

Debuting first in designer Sean McGirr’s fall 2024 assortment for McQueen, the hoof boot’s clunky silhouette attracts inspiration from—you guessed it—horse hooves. Completed in brown calf hair, or with a sweeping silk ponytail, they’re meant to offer the wearer an anthropomorphic really feel—as if you are a non-human human. If you concentrate on it, they are surely the proper Style Month shoe; Why mix in, whenever you may be utterly otherworldy?

Feeling intrigued by the brand new avant-garde design, Vogue received to considering: Will we see the boot on the spring reveals this month? And who would dare to put on them? Enter Kenyan mannequin and creator Achieng Agutu, who we enlisted to check out the footwear throughout September’s trend insanity. Dubbed the “confidence queen,” Agutu’s on-line persona is all about embracing trend and completely proudly owning it—which means, if somebody can pull off the footwear with ease, it’s certain to be her.

Reduce to earlier this month, when Agutu visited the Vogue headquarters in New York to test-drive not one, however two pairs of the hoof boots. Did she give them a yay, or a neigh? After slipping the footwear on—“Do your horses have ft like this? No, however I do,” she stated—Agutu proceeded to gallop by means of the Vogue workplaces, turning heads in assembly rooms whereas giving her greatest “new boot goofin’” strut. “I’d put on these all over the place—the grocery retailer, the membership,“ says Agutu. “My buddy’s son’s bar mitzvah. Actually all over the place.“

Above and under, watch the total hoof boot test-drive on Vogue’s TikTok.