Fashion’s beloved hoof-toed Margiela Tabi boots intimidated me for years. Then I wore them for a week straight.

“I had no other choice than to continue with [the Tabi] if I wanted shoes,” Margiela has said. A model walks Martin Margiela's Fall 1996 RTW runway collection in painted tabi shoes. Photo by ...

Let's throw things back, shall we? Back in the '70s, Adidas began mass producing thousands of sneakers for the West German army. Upon the fall of the Berlin Wall fell in 1989, the Bundeswehr (the ...