Durability is a very important topic, and it feels like it’s even more important in hiking than, say, jogging or walking. Hiking shoes falling apart, an upper rupturing, or any other similar event is an inconvenience when you’re walking around the city, but a quite dangerous thing to happen if you’re somewhere 10,000ft high or […]
Eugene Gordon is among the handful of people still making shoes in New Zealand. Locally produced footwear is an endangered species. New Zealand used to have shoe factories. They were all over the country, until they weren’t. Now, New Zealand-made shoes feels like a distant memory, like carless days, a top-bracket tax rate of 66% and The […]
Credit: Eating Well We love Hoka shoes—the Hoka Skyflow is a favorite cushioned walking shoe, and the Hoka Mach 6 is our writer’s podiatrist father-in-law’s go-to. But $160 for the Skyflow or $140 for the Mach 6 can add up when you’re replacing them regularly. Luckily, Amazon sleuths have tracked down a few pairs that feel like Hokas for a […]
Sabastian Sawe after winning the Men’s elite race during the 2026 TCS London Marathon. Photo by John Walton/PA Images via Getty Images Sunday was a day flush with records at the London Marathon. Three men beat the previous world record for the distance, including the first two to surpass the two-hour barrier, a new women’s […]
Rihanna wearing custom Amina Muaddi shoes at the 2025 Met Gala. The Met Gala is considered the number-one fashion event of the year, drawing the buzziest guest list and a drove of photographers to the Metropolitan Museum of Art and its surrounding hotels every year. The outfits on the red carpet can be counted on […]
The NN.07 + Grenson moccasin mule. Courtesy of NN.07 Grenson and Copenhagen-based label NN.07 are jumping on the loafer mule trend with a new shoe collaboration. Set to launch later this month, the NN.07 + Grenson moccasin mule is made from soft napa leather and features a hand-stitched gathered apron and a flexible leather sole. “NN.07 […]
When writing about the latest fashion trends is a part of your day job, sometimes you think you’ve seen it all. Yes, I’m talking about you, unbuttoned jeans and pillowcases as handbags. But some days you wake up, you open Instagram and find that, overnight, everyone started wearing fluff as shoes. Fluffy. Furry. Fuzzy. Hairy. There’s no other […]