You would be hard-pressed to find a shoe as controversial as the Margiela Tabi. When the cleft-toed shoe first emerged in ...

“The idea was about mixing two different worlds: the more minimalist side of Margiela with the seductive, feminine curves of Louboutin. We wanted to feminize the Tabi, but not in an obvious sense.

Margiela's famous Tabi style, which is a cloven toe shoe beloved by the likes of Pauletta Washington, is reinvented in the ...

To say the name Martin Margiela is to conjure images of stacked-heel tabi-toe boots and blank labels held in place with four visible stitches. The name also evokes an aura of beguiling mystery ...

So basically, for me to bring Margiela into my world." So in a white high-heeled Tabi shoe with a streak of red paint down the heel, one can see the worlds of Margiela and Louboutin colliding.