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Clarks WTAF?

211 replies

Bananararity · 17/05/2025 16:20

90% of my work shores are from Clarks and have been for years. I get this is a collaboration but honestly? Or am I really out of touch and this is what I need to be wearing.

Absolutely love the shade of blue though.

www.clarks.com/en-gb/Martine-Rose-Heel-Womens/26183327-p

OP posts:
Littlemiracles232504 · 17/05/2025 18:46

They look like something my 3 year old would bring home from nursery!
anyone daft enough to pay that pricetag deserves to walk around looking like a knob tbh

whycantibeselfishforonce · 17/05/2025 18:44

Very Emperor's New Clothes! haha ridiculous!

deeahgwitch · 17/05/2025 18:37

They are the ripped jeans of shoes 🙄

ChocolateGanache · 17/05/2025 18:33

They look broken.

SALaw · 17/05/2025 18:29

Why would you need to be wearing them? Why do they anger you? You’re allowed to just not want something on sale at a shop!

Padloque · 17/05/2025 18:28

I wonder how many they’ve actually made? Be interesting to know what the initial production run was - probably extremely limited, so very few will end up in the outlet, if all the people who love them, snap them up.

Viviennemary · 17/05/2025 18:25

It looks like an April fool. Have the shoes grown mould or fur.

Hwi · 17/05/2025 18:24

MsDastardley · 17/05/2025 18:22

I read that she was a consultant for Balenciaga, so I would say there will definitely be people out there that will buy them.

Goes with their bondage teddy-bears. Ghastly.

Hwi · 17/05/2025 18:23

As you say, WTAF?

FofB · 17/05/2025 18:22

I live near a Clarks Outlet Store. I'll watch this thread and come back to update when they, inevitably, make their way into it......

MsDastardley · 17/05/2025 18:22

I read that she was a consultant for Balenciaga, so I would say there will definitely be people out there that will buy them.

Laiste · 17/05/2025 18:18

Oh.my.god.

It's so emperors new clothes isn't it?

''Wow darling you look amazing in your shoes which look as if they've been dragged out of the factory dumpster!''

Maybe they should have stuck on a bit of fake banana peel and burger wrapper for the full effect?

sodabreadjam · 17/05/2025 18:17

Ridiculous.

I thought at first that was a blade sticking out of the back until I scrolled through pics from other angles.

Tooty78 · 17/05/2025 18:16

Padloque · 17/05/2025 17:19

Grim. Clarks used to do fabulous collabs: I still bring out the Liberty print wedges I impulse bought in approx 1654 because they were just so beautiful. This, not so much.

I bought two pair of black slim heel court shoes one velvet type and the other silk, back in 1992 in the sale for £7 each.

I still wear them occasionally mainly, at the social dances at the dance studio we go to. 33 years later they are still like new, I have had them heeled, but that's all.
This is what Clarks meant to me, well made footwear made to last.

Mumof2amazingasdkiddos · 17/05/2025 18:15

Wow definitely not my style at all

Veryverycalmnow · 17/05/2025 18:15

They are dreadful!

Didshejustsaythatoutloud · 17/05/2025 18:13

Naw, jist naw 😂

BIossomtoes · 17/05/2025 18:13

CertainUncertain · 17/05/2025 17:29

Hiding under furniture, but I actually like them, although not enough to go buy them as I don't have much occasion to wear court shoes.

Martine Rose is an interesting designer with an atypical background, but as far as I know only usually does menswear. Interesting collaboration.

*Didn't read the description but have no trouble believing it's a bunch of pretension.

Edited

I’m hiding with you because I like them too. 😱

Padloque · 17/05/2025 18:12

The target market is probably fashion editors, who will then feature Clarks in places the sturdy brogues and sensible courts would never reach. But I’d be really surprised if Clarks shift many to actual real life customers - see also John Lewis’ A.W.A.K.E. Mode range and its 70% off in the sale somewhat mixed reception.

pomers · 17/05/2025 18:12

Absolutely hideous, the bit at the back looks bad enough, it will look a total mess after a bit of weather

Horses7 · 17/05/2025 18:10

A take on Emperor’s new clothes - it happens such a lot.

Apora · 17/05/2025 18:07

People must have more money than sense to buy those

Gowlett · 17/05/2025 18:06

They’ve got people talking, which might be the point?

mintandpistachio · 17/05/2025 18:06

I actually love them - if they did them in black I’d be buying them!

Disturbia81 · 17/05/2025 18:06

Fucking awful