Crocs aren’t going anyplace – simply ask Kanye West

Crocs (and the model’s clog specifically), which launched again in 2002, has been thrown into the limelight in recent times after a bunch of celebs caught on to their clout. Priyanka Chopra has a pair, as does Nineties queen of cool Gwen Stefani. Kim Kardashian West additionally wears them, whereas Justin Bieber owns many in an array of hues and has even dropped a duo of collaborative Crocs. Elsewhere, Questlove wore them to the 2021 Oscars and so they too made an look on the ft of Pete Davidson and Idris Elba in Michael Rooker’s Suicide Squad.

And in case you thought the Crocs love-in was going to return to an finish any time quickly, you’ll be able to assume once more. Kanye West (sorry, Ye), who’s undeniably one of many world’s most-influential type professionals, has been throwing his help behind the model most well-known for its humble slip-ons in current weeks. Sighted in every single place from the busy banks of Venice’s canals to eating with Vogue editor Anna Wintour in New York Metropolis, the masked Donda rapper has made Crocs’ current hook-up with Balenciaga his footwear of alternative. 

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West’s footwear, which have changed his personal fugly, holey Yeezy Foam Rnnrs, take the type of a clompy boot-Croc clog hybrid and had been first previewed in Balenciaga’s Spring/Summer time 2022 assortment earlier this month. They arrive with Crocs’ signature gap detailing on prime and have a smoothed-out, rounded toe, in addition to an embossed Balenciaga emblem on the entrance. The rapper stands as one of many first folks on this planet, and positively off the label’s current purple carpet-cum-catwalk, to put on them. This we reckon is right down to the truth that he’s greatest mates with the Kering-owned model’s artistic director, Demna Gvasalia.

Whether or not you assume West is simply bonkers otherwise you truly perceive the footwear’s enchantment, there’s merely no denying that this serves as a signifier that Crocs are right here to remain. 

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