“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.

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

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 ...