Clarks WTAF?

[Bananararity]

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

Completely agree. I loved the V&A and the Orla Kiely collaborations from years ago. I wear a few of them still. But this is just some kind of experimental art in shoe form.

They are very....unusual

They look so tatty.

Or am I really out of touch and this is what I need to be wearing.

Something doesn’t need to be ‘what you need to be wearing’ for it to be stalked. There’s space for all tastes.

They’re hideous!

Wowzers. 😵 I hope my algorithm isn’t going to be fucked after looking at those!

Cant believe these snake skin boomerang heeled loafers are in the sale.

Bloody hell. When I worked at Clarks 30 years ago, I would have been hauled in the office if any of "my" shoes looked like that.

I would fire their purchasing buyer over those
😂

The target market is people who only choose shoes to impress other people, and only want to impress people who are (a) only impressed by shoes that are priced at at least £250 and (b) have an encyclopedic knowledge of all qualifying shoes so will recognise these ones.

As it is therefore a tiny target market, the manufacturing fixed-costs per pair made are high, so the cost must be high

They look damaged.

I still have my suede Mary Portas collection shoes.

Fucking awful

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

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

People must have more money than sense to buy those

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

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

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.

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

Naw, jist naw 😂

They are dreadful!

Wow definitely not my style at all

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.

Ridiculous.

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

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?