dr. martens x rick owens

The Dr. Martens x Rick Owens collaboration is a recurring partnership that fuses the British footwear brand’s utilitarian industrial heritage with the American designer’s brutalist, architectural aesthetic. Launched in 2021, the project reimagines Dr. Martens’ most iconic silhouettes—such as the 1460 boot and the 1918 calf-length boot—through Owens’ lens of "glunge" (glamour and grunge). The designs are characterized by exaggerated proportions, including the inflated DMXL sole, extended geometric tongues, and Owens’ signature pentagram or megalace systems, which wrap thick pearl-colored laces around the boot in a style reminiscent of brutalist architecture.

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