Ariana Grande’s Loewe Balloon Heels

Ariana Grande’s newest heels actually pop. In an Oct. 23 Instagram gallery, the singer and actor drew footwear inspiration from the land of Oz, buying and selling ruby slippers for a pair of yellow Loewe heels coated in deflated balloons. The imaginative shoes characteristic hand-embroidered bunches of latex, with balloons sewn onto 3.5-inch heels to create a singular, bubbly texture. Except for the unconventional medium and puffy exterior, the borderline comical footwear are additionally lined in leather-based (not that you would actually inform).

Grande’s ft virtually disappeared inside rubber mountains of untimely get together decor. She let the balloons have their second, styling them down with light-wash denims and a comfortable sweater. Different celebrities braving the identical footwear leaned into the drama, reminiscent of Indya Moore, who wore the heels with a draped minidress at Loewe’s fall present throughout Paris Fashion Week. Irrespective of who they’re worn by, the heels are a main instance of the “ugly”-shoe trend — an more and more well-liked motion lifting up uncommon footwear and difficult what’s and is not aesthetically acceptable.

Because of Inventive Director Jonathan Anderson, the balloon footwear, aptly referred to as the Comic Balloon Pump, are usually not Loewe’s first enterprise into the avant-garde. Beforehand, the style home debuted sandals made completely out of pom-pom tinsel, heels draped with giant bows, and chunky pumps that seem like they belong to Minnie Mouse. “It is basic Jonathan genius, this playful sort of nostalgia,” Greta Lee advised Harper’s Bazaar after sporting a pair of the tinsel footwear herself, noting Anderson’s use of progressive supplies on leather-based. “It nearly appears to be like like armor nevertheless it additionally sort of appears to be like like pores and skin.”

In Grande’s case, possibly the balloon footwear do function armor of types. Or possibly they’re simply reminders to not take something in life too critically. In any case, scroll by means of her put up to see how she introduced the get together in a pair of her personal.