Batsheva Creates Custom Toms for Spring 2024 Presentation
Amina Ayoud
Assistant Digital Editor
Batsheva designed custom Toms shoes for its spring 2024 runway presentation during New York Fashion Week.
The footwear marries Toms‘ comfortable silhouette with Batsheva’s signature style. Each piece was made from the New York-based fashion house’s upcycled deadstock trims provided by their creative director, Batsheva Hay.
The footwear features sheer ruffly trim that was hand-sewn around the edges and on top of each slip-on shoe, giving them a frilly and feminine disposition.
“It’s none of the shapes that I’ve done before, but at the same time it’s still very me,” Hay told WWD during her presentation at BondST Sushi in Hudson Yards. “It’s around a loose 1950s theme, but it got really loose.” The collection itself was heavily inspired by the 1950s housewife. Dresses and sets were crafted out of placemats and oven mitts.
“This is the era that my mom grew up in,” Hay said about the retro inspiration. “I’ve seen a lot of pictures from this time and I’ve heard a lot about this time, so it’s very fascinating to me. It’s also a time when people really got dressed. I feel sometimes a little aimless in today’s world of athleisure, so I really love to do the full head-to-toe dream look.”
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Batsheva is a New York-based fashion label founded in 2016 by Batsheva Hay. The brand is known for reinventing feminine silhouettes, imbuing them with a modern flair. Batsheva aims to challenge old-fashioned views of womanhood through unadulterated self-expression.
Founded in 2006 by Blake Mycoskie, Toms is a footwear brand aimed at changing the footwear industry’s status quo. Beyond footwear, the company designs and markets eyewear, coffee, apparel and even handbags.
The limited-edition Toms x Batsheva Black Suede Valencia Platform Espadrille is now available for purchase exclusively on Toms.com for $99.95.
About the Author:
Amina Ayoud is an Assistant Digital Editor for Footwear News, where she writes stories about everything from celebrity style to breaking fashion and shoe releases. Ayoud cultivated a love of all things fashion early in life thanks to a deep love of fashion history and the luxury industry. In her free time, Ayoud is a self-proclaimed fashion nerd and thriftaholic.
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