clodhopper

She wore a marble-dyed mesh shirt, tight jeans, clodhopper heels and a bounty of rings and necklaces.

After all, her Chloé, which was synonymous with a certain cool girl attitude, sending a generation of young women into baby doll dresses and clodhopper wooden wedges, looked nothing like her Celine, which she imbued with a kind of radical maturity, elevating the nude leotard and the oversize navy cashmere sweater to desirability and kick-starting the trend for luxury Birkenstocks.

The role of fashion in elevating the highbrow cultural status of sneakers by bestowing design legitimacy is another focus of the show, with styles including the 1999 Zoom Haven by Junya Watanabe Commes des Garçons, the 2002 introduction of the Y-3 Adidas line by Yohji Yamamoto, the Balenciaga $1000 Triple S Clodhopper and the Martine Rose hot pink Nike Air Monarch IV, made by putting a size 18 mold atop a size nine sole.

One line confirms what the audience suspected: The clodhopper is in fact a shrewd judge of character.

It started with Jeffery Campbell Litas in 2010, the hipster girl’s platform clodhopper of choice.