Maison Martin Margiela is known for groovy avant-garde ... Cut-out collar with signature logo stitch in white. Tan rubber foxing. Tonal stitching. Leather upper, rubber sole.

First introduced at Martin Margiela’s debut fashion show ... starting in the 1920s, a rubber sole was added to create a work ...

That’s because Martin Margiela made his models trample in red paint before stepping onto the runway – a moment impregnated in fashion lore – but it was also because western show-goers hadn’t seen a ...

with the later addition of a rubber sole became jika-tabi, a shoe that continues to be worn by Japanese construction workers, farmers and others who work outdoors. It was a trip to Japan that inspired ...

By the 1900s rubber soles had been added, so that they could be worn while working outdoors, and these “Jika-tabi” (as they are called) are still the go-to shoe for workers in Japan today. Martin ...

“My memory went back to the day we went to Tokyo for the first time, when we saw street workers in their flat cotton Tabi shoes,” he says, in the 2019 documentary Martin Margiela: In His Own ...

Everyone from Nick Jonas to Dua Lipa have been spotted sporting the split-toe shoes. Here's where it got ... of Converse Chuck Taylors, the Maison Margiela Tabi has garnered a cult following ...

Shoes courtesy of Christian Louboutin. All other images courtesy of Florilegius/Universal Images Group, Guy Marineau/Condé Nast via Getty Images, and ZUMA Press Wire/Shutterstock During Martin ...

The ever stylish singer finished off her look with a pair of Maison Margiela x Salomon sneakers. If you did a double take, you weren’t the only one. Salomon is best-known for their hiking shoes ...

That’s because Martin Margiela made his models ... of art freaks and celebrities alike. Margiela didn’t come up with the idea for the shoe himself (he often sourced those elsewhere ...

35 years later (and 14 years since Martin Margiela left his eponymous label), the shoe’s allure shows no sign of waning. Despite the Tabi’s propensity to divide opinion, it has a sizeable fanbase.