The Woven Intricacies of BoTT's Textured Clarks

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Feb 12, 2025 - 17:13
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The Woven Intricacies of BoTT's Textured Clarks

BoTT’s collaborative Clarks Wallabees remove one of the shoe's defining features: Its fuzzy suede exterior. However, it has replaced that signature hairy fabrication with something even more textured.

A detailed woven upper emerges on these collaborative shoes, creating a complex two-tone pattern across its classic moccasin-inspired shape. You really have to zoom in to see the intricacies of the material, various colored threads crisscrossing along the fabric. 

Offered in either pink or black, these shoes don’t entirely ditch the fabric conventions of a Clarks Wallabee: the hairy suede is not all lost, it still appears on the collar and on hangtags. And that classic Clarks crepe sole still stands strong. But nobody is really looking at that, it's all about the woven upper.

Japanese label BoTT (or Birth of The Teenager, to use its full name) is launching these collaborative shoes alongside a Clarks-inspired T-shirt through two pop-up shops.

The first pop-up is in Osaka, held on February 15. Followed by a Tokyo pop-up the next day. Unfortunately, there’s no word yet on a wider release for these woven sneakers (but one can always hope).

Following on from BoTT’s dapper Converse skate shoe, the label drops another preppy shoe with a twist.  

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