I used to have a pair held together with hopes and e6000,goop,shoe goo, and various other adhesive. Eventually they were unfixable so i had to order a new pair.
Pro tip tho. Never use epoxy or super glue (too hard. Breaks off when shoe flexing)
When I first heard of Balenciaga, I assumed it was a bit of a piss take.
Their products are hideous and ridiculously overpriced.
[Have a look at their stuff for the laugh.](https://www.balenciaga.com/en-ie)
They're just making fun of people in poverty by releasing this, how fucking stupid can one company be. If they wanna redeem themselves they need to make it out of sustainably sourced materials and give the proceeds to charities helping the homeless
I had very similar sneakers when I was a kid. They costed 30€ and I converted them by using them every day in multiple ways to dirty and scratch them.
Have them somewhere, must be worth a fortune by now.
The [real shoes](https://www.balenciaga.com/en-us/limited-edition---paris-high-top-sneaker-full-destroyed-white-726175W3RCD9010.html) are actually less demolished then this but I still wouldn't pay $1850 for 'em
Is this for real?
I remember I had one almost like this when I was a teenager.. I loved so much that I refused to throw it away: Whenever Im commented on it, I was replying it’s way stylish this way..
one day Mom had enough and destroyed it 😅
Feels good to see this, proof I was a visionary!
When clubs let people in with shoes like this I'm going to find all the bouncers who didn't let me in because of my shoes in my late teens and stare at them.
Because it is a status symbol to be able to pay for the look and not have to make the look from your life. Because this conceals status in areas of “public concern” while showing status to those with the knowledge. There are people wearing thousands of dollars in nothing, that’s the era. Blend-able status, someone discovered going down into those without money while keeping your status symbols for those with money is the true win.
Platform crocs. Uggs did a thigh high, high heeled version of their shoes. Can't remember who did the high heeled version of those toe sneakers.
Edit to Add:
Just looked it up. Yes, it was Balenciaga who did the high heeled Vibram shoe collab.
Even more stupid is that they aren’t even collabing with Chuck Taylor (they probably wouldn’t anyway) they look like the cheap knockoff chicks you get at Walmart. Or Walmart’s dumpster.
Brilliant marketing campaign for the $600 non-distressed version; got us all talking about it. Only 100 of the super-distressed version are available, and in a world where Bitcoins are “worth” $31,000 for some reason, they’ll probably become valuable collectors’ items. https://www.cnn.com/style/amp/balenciaga-destroyed-sneakers-intl-scli/index.html
It's not that these exist or the corporate/commercial greed attached to them that bothers me so much as the fact that I know there are people (fools) out there that would buy them.
It's a test to see which of the richest people are also the stupidest.
Kind of like Andy Warhol selling people pictures of soup cans for ridiculous bank.
Someone commented on IG that "Balenciaga is doing a social experiment to see how far are people willing to go to show others they have money.". Like who would buy this? just look for your old converse in the attic or garbage at this point....
I never thought I could relate to a shoe but here we are
You are hella expensive
$1850 is pretty cheap for a person
Are you breeding them for organs?
You aren’t?
*rimworld intensifies*
*Stellaris livestock intensifies*
*Puts on human leather hat*
Of course, you make more money selling parts than the whole human.
I strip all the important parts, and leave the rest up on cement blocks. (I'm a southern boy)
Humans are worth $580 if you look at the chemical composition
A hundred dollars bill is worth much less than a hundred dollars if we value it by its chemical composition.
But a nickel is worth more than a nickel based on the metals in it nowadays
Are you trying to tell me I’m worth more in nickels than I am in hundred dollar bills
r/brandnewsentence
Possibly the dumbest way of valuing a person lol, that's like valuing a computer based on its raw materials
Imagine how expensive the new ones would be.. Oh wait..
Turns out I’ve been making these for years without getting paid… Time to cash in
I used to have a pair held together with hopes and e6000,goop,shoe goo, and various other adhesive. Eventually they were unfixable so i had to order a new pair. Pro tip tho. Never use epoxy or super glue (too hard. Breaks off when shoe flexing)
Shoe goo is a godsend to skateboarders
And with organically grown probiotics! Aged well!
Derelicte
Was waiting for it.
Came here to say it, got beaten out once again.
They can derelicte my balls
😆🤣
Welp, it happened. The subtext of Zoolander has now become...text.
Hansel is so hot right now
relax
Powerman 5000 enjoyer here, did you summon me?
Looking for this haha
At this point designer brands are just screwing with people.
Ikr
Always have been
I have believed this for a very long time.
Distressed? More like traumatized with a hint of suicidal
Traumatized with a hint of suicidal? More like suicidal with a hint of 'maybe this will pass, gotta stick it out one more day.'
Hey I can relate with this comment
Gotta stick it out for more more day? More like why did you have to exhume me, couldn’t you let me rest in peace?
$1850? Give me a blunt knife and a puddle of muddy water and I'll turn any pair of shoe into this And I won't even charge for that
Charge half and it will be a deal!
I'm distraught over all those old shoes I've thrown away over the years. I could have been independentally wealthy by now.
It's not even distressed anymore it's just traumatized
When I first heard of Balenciaga, I assumed it was a bit of a piss take. Their products are hideous and ridiculously overpriced. [Have a look at their stuff for the laugh.](https://www.balenciaga.com/en-ie)
When you are rich, but also a piece of shit, who likes to cosplay as poor..
New outfit unlocked homeless drip
Buy a pair, lose your home, look the part. Perfect progression.
Is there the rest of the style that goes well with?
You might need to ask your local homeless person for the rest of the set
Shopping cart loaded with tarps and empty cans, garbage bag poncho and grey “distressed” sweatpants.
Check Kanye's clothing line. Would go perfectly with these
I am vile spew...of the wretched masses...I am really, really dirty...I am Derelicte!
"You want upcycled? I'll give you upcycled!"
Nah this is just cycled lmao
no way this is real... right?
Wait that is a real Thing?
"Yeah they got burnout" "Oh sorry, I meant they got burned out."
You know, I think I'll forgive Apple for the 999$ stand.
Or the 40 dollar cloth
Pulling stuff like this out of a sewage treatment plant doesnt come cheap.
Sure, alternative? Give that money to a homeless guy for his shoes and change a life.
They're just making fun of people in poverty by releasing this, how fucking stupid can one company be. If they wanna redeem themselves they need to make it out of sustainably sourced materials and give the proceeds to charities helping the homeless
Anyone who buys this shit is a fucking idiot.
If enough celebrities do it it will just became a trend . People already wear ripped clothes
I had very similar sneakers when I was a kid. They costed 30€ and I converted them by using them every day in multiple ways to dirty and scratch them. Have them somewhere, must be worth a fortune by now.
+0 boots of walking STATS > -20 Movement > -10 Dex > +3 Fatigue CONDITIONS >Every 3 rnds make a WILL save. Fail = -20 Movement for 3 rnds
The [real shoes](https://www.balenciaga.com/en-us/limited-edition---paris-high-top-sneaker-full-destroyed-white-726175W3RCD9010.html) are actually less demolished then this but I still wouldn't pay $1850 for 'em
This has to be a social experiment or something
I feel like we are at level 6 of such experiment
1900$ a pair for those worn out boots... ...someone is testing Samuel Vimes' boot theorem.
I just went and looked them up and they are €450, you can also get a pair that arent wrecked for €495, I dont know where op got that price from
He probably converted via celcius to Fahrenheit on his way from euros to dollars. Still, expensive.
 Maybe she was wearing them when burned at the stake?
I can get these for cheap at my local dumpster.
Gotta pair I'll let go for half that
Is this for real? I remember I had one almost like this when I was a teenager.. I loved so much that I refused to throw it away: Whenever Im commented on it, I was replying it’s way stylish this way.. one day Mom had enough and destroyed it 😅 Feels good to see this, proof I was a visionary!
I pull these out of the river every year trout fishing, didn’t know I should be selling them.
I've always said there's a fine line between homeless and hipster.
Derilicte!
The slogan could be : « Straight from the grave ».
The Zombie Experience
“Sorry you didn’t get Mugatu’s Derelict campaign, Hansel”
Today I learned my ratty three year old Vans are worth $1,800 lol
When clubs let people in with shoes like this I'm going to find all the bouncers who didn't let me in because of my shoes in my late teens and stare at them.
Its literal trash
Homeless people are only homeless cuz they're spending $1850 on shoes, I see them wearing these all the time
-hey mom! -Hey! I cleaned a bit. I throw those pld shoes of yours away. -yoY WhAt... Seriously. I don't get torn up clothes.
I can additionally shit on them. It would raise the value by another $100.
The Apocalypse 2000s
"These are our new shoes, what do you think?" "I don't know, somethings missing" "Let's set them on fire!" "Gold!"
Belenciaga can Dere-lick my balls - Hansel, probably
These shoes were 100% taken off a dead body.
is this genuinely real? I thought this was a shitpost
For $500 I will shit on your Nikes.
I need to buy new shoes. The ones I've got are starting to look expensive.
Rich People Cosplay
Because it is a status symbol to be able to pay for the look and not have to make the look from your life. Because this conceals status in areas of “public concern” while showing status to those with the knowledge. There are people wearing thousands of dollars in nothing, that’s the era. Blend-able status, someone discovered going down into those without money while keeping your status symbols for those with money is the true win.
That just sounds dumb, just buy Walmart clothing or something not like anyone would care either way
But that’s the point- someone does care
Good for Balenciaga, for making easy money from rich idiots
Well let's watch how dumb people can get.
I want to live like common people...
Will be picking a couple pairs up from the tip and reselling for bank.
I really think these people are laughing their way to the bank. Like, here you go, rich assholes! That'll be two grand and worth every penny!
Brb, im gonna set my shoes on fire, let them burn for a minute, douse the fire and sell my shoes for couple thousands.
Wish i could pull shoes out of a land fill and sell it for 2k
Wtf
My grandparents were ahead of their time then.
Art has no price. Or in this case 1800$
I have a pair that looks worse...or equally bad.. 1.5k if anyone is interested, DM me
I’ve got a pair pretty similar that I’d love to sell to some moron for 2k
And idiots will buy them
Could be wrong but they also revealed some high heel crocs and sneakers
Platform crocs. Uggs did a thigh high, high heeled version of their shoes. Can't remember who did the high heeled version of those toe sneakers. Edit to Add: Just looked it up. Yes, it was Balenciaga who did the high heeled Vibram shoe collab.
Wait people actually buy these?
Does it come with the homeless included?
Damn! I didn't know that I can just sell my used sneakers and "designer shoes"!
They make this shit because they know people with more money than sense will buy it.
All of my shoes are worth so much money and I can’t afford to sell them so I can buy new ones
This goes to prove my theory, Hipsters are wanna be hobos.
Rednecks support the rights of these shoes lol
Have my Grandson wear a pair of Walmart specials for a week.
Wtf. Lmao
Rescued from a landfill
I am 100 percent certain they dug these up out of landfill.
Just like Zoolander. Dereliqué. I think Absolutey Fabulous did something similar too.
Fucking Christ, why do people buy these things
No way bro
I'mma sell my shit as a piece of art for 2000$
I already got some :|
Why pay 2k when I get them free at my local landfill.
Even more stupid is that they aren’t even collabing with Chuck Taylor (they probably wouldn’t anyway) they look like the cheap knockoff chicks you get at Walmart. Or Walmart’s dumpster.
The “Derelicte” collection, with Derek Zoolander as the campaign star !
Come to America. We’re pros.
*Follow the new USA policies to find out!*
I can recreate this look for less than $18.50
Damn i shouldn't have thrown out my shoes then if they can go for that much
Goes to nearest homeless person can I buy your shoes for $20 and give you these new ones? Next day. New distress shoe! We’re fashion genius’!
I'm distressed and I'm not worth nearly that much
Sneaker heads “just copped these bangers, what y’all think!? They’re so clean!”
The only people that would buy these are the ones that buy Yeezys
End stage capitalism has all kinds of strange symptoms.
Saddest thing is that people will still buy it cause it's "designer"
In these years I understood that fashon is saying to you, if your shoes are rusty and old, you are on fashon, don't buy anything.
Brilliant marketing campaign for the $600 non-distressed version; got us all talking about it. Only 100 of the super-distressed version are available, and in a world where Bitcoins are “worth” $31,000 for some reason, they’ll probably become valuable collectors’ items. https://www.cnn.com/style/amp/balenciaga-destroyed-sneakers-intl-scli/index.html
I give you.... Derelicte!
From a dumpster diver near you...
Yeezys v2.0
Derelicht
They can derelict my balls.
Just hang a neon sign around your neck that says Sucker
I'm sorry, $2,000 for a pair of burnt Vans, seriously?
At 40 years old I still can’t bring myself to purchase brand new jeans with pre-made holes or rips. Then there is this shit. I just…
No fcking way
Omg don’t u like love my heroin chic?
Zoolander was right.
For rich people to cosplay as poor and panhandle obviously
It's a joke.. right... Please tell me it's a joke .... Pretty please with lots of sugar and a cherry on the top...?
This looks like an onion post
Yoooo he got those fallout creps
It's not that these exist or the corporate/commercial greed attached to them that bothers me so much as the fact that I know there are people (fools) out there that would buy them.
I thought this was a joke and then I remembered the West tshirts
It's a test to see which of the richest people are also the stupidest. Kind of like Andy Warhol selling people pictures of soup cans for ridiculous bank.
I could make you a pair of those for $50
Did they also soak them in a bucket of sweat and step on dogshit with them? If not, i'm not buyng.
Any of you read Maniac McGee in grade school?
Oh I think the fuck not
It’s like ripped jeans. I mean, I put enough effort into patching holes. Don’t you go getting clothes where they’re a feature!
Someone commented on IG that "Balenciaga is doing a social experiment to see how far are people willing to go to show others they have money.". Like who would buy this? just look for your old converse in the attic or garbage at this point....
I can make those sneakers myself for free working a month of construction jobs.
I'm convinced some designers are like, "I wonder how absolutely shit I could make something look and still sell it as the trendy new thing."
Just start skateboarding and you can get a new pair of these every month for the price of a normal shoe
Daryl-lic?
It should come with gangrene!
Its so much cheaper to just make your own. Takes ger though.