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Dua Lipa & Callum Turner Love France’s Finest Workwear

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By Tom Barker Verified, David Fischer
| Highsnobiety Verified
This is the year that BRUT, once an IYKYK vintage archive that became a small but buzzy fashion label, reached far beyond its Parisian borders. At the start of 2026, it opened a store in New York, prompting locals to queue for hours in the blistering cold to get their hands on its reworked vintage-inspired garbs.
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Why Germany’s Weirdest Shoemaker Made Backwards Shoes

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By Tom Barker Verified, David Fischer
| Highsnobiety Verified
There is no such thing as a normal Trippen shoe. The German company and Highsnobiety-accredited good-shoes-maker turns leather from small family-run tanneries into experimental oddities like its box-shaped Barge slip-on, grounded by a sole of two chunky plinths, and its Chill chukka boot where punched-out holes pepper the upper. In the words of Michael Oehler, who co-founded the company in 1991, this is  “unconventional and timeless” footwear.
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Noah’s Bottega-fied Flip-Flop Could Never Flop

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By Tom Barker Verified, David Fischer
| Highsnobiety Verified
Noah’s newest shoe collaboration is a recipe for success. The 10-year-old menswear (not streetwear!) label is following up on footwear collections with sportswear giant PUMA and Korean heritage label Catch Ball by putting its spin on the original luxury flip-flop, which has been handmade in Hawaii for 80 years.
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