Por F. Javier Girela
During the last decade the shoes have become the absolute scale to determine how cool you are.The looks went from sweeping up down to do it from the bottom.So much so that, in the 21st century, you only need a good pair of sneakers to raise the simplest look and end up being the most envied of the party.This is the power of Streetwear, the triumph of Guetto's fashion in the haute couture catwalks, luxury firms understood and allied with the most understood in them to relaunch their aesthetics (Supreme, Virgil Ulh, Demna Gvasalia, KanyeWest ...).
However, ten years after the invasion of street fashion, it seems that elegance is again its toughest competitor.Proof of this is the silent triumph of the Moccasins, which since the end of 2019 announced their return.At that time we ask ourselves: can some shoes be the new shoes?And what if they can.If not in form, yes in use.
If we think about it, the American culture has been influencing our closet practically the whole decade, not only with the streetwear, also with the preppy style, which returns to the podium of seasonal trends.The American Sportswear in all its essence, that relaxed fashion between the formal and the sports that the Americans cultivated, prevails in our cabinets in a way that we are not even aware.Therefore, now that we are looking for "new things" to dress and uncheck a little of that street fashion and Maniddress.More if we take them with white socks, as the preppy did, mixing once again the sports and the formal as if it were the craziest in the world.
Rapper Tyler, The Creator, one of the top musical and aesthetic referents of today, is perhaps the greatest exponent of this revival.Shoe that is put on, white sock with which it combines it.But not only he, a few weeks ago was Jacob Elordi, protagonist of the Euphoria series and a great reference of the Z Generation, who presented himself in the Jimmy Fallon program dressed as a child well from the American university: Varsity Jacket, paint dress pantsand moccasins with sports socks.But where does this fever come out of the moccasins?
Although we have seen it in countless catwalks such as Prada, Casablanca, Ermenegildo Zegna, Versace, Celine, MSGM, Lacoste or Off-White, to mention some, Gucci is the main driver of this shoe among European luxury firms.It was the Florentina house and not another one that in the 80s gave the moccasins a sophistication turn when reissued by their "horsebit", a best seller of the firm.The Wall Street offices were filled with moccasins when it was unthinkable to see them parade through the bag of the bag.Then Alessandro Michelle, the current creative director of the brand, turned them into an object of desire by turning them into fold-down-as a stepped heel-and today the tradition continues.It is precisely the Gucci Horsebit that has given the last push to the Moccasins by becoming the most wanted object of recent months on the Internet.
According to Lyst's latest report, the fashion Google, in the last four -month period of 2021 the Gucci Moccasins have been the most desired piece among men.The reason?The film La Casa Gucci.Ridley Scott's film about the disagreements of the Italian family revived fever by the firm and, especially, for their Horsebit moccasins, which enjoy a leading role in history.Therefore, if the moccasins already began to glimpse a new moment of glory among fashion trends, the Gucci house finished finishing off the play.In this way, could we definitely be talking about the beginning of the end of the reign of the shoes?
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