If you overlooked these footwear choices during the fall-winter 2025/2026 fashion weeks, allow us to guide you. Creative directors have started to reimagine shoes offering stability and ease for pursuits like hiking, camping, and energetic travel. Indeed, hiking boots represent an unforeseen, emerging trend of the moment. And it's stunning!
Bally autumn-winter 2025/2026. Photo: Launchmetrics
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Generally speaking, trekking boots are a more lightweight and condensed variant of boots once primarily donned by factory personnel, workers in metallurgy, and soldiers. These shoes needed resilience, warmth, and resistance against humidity, coldness, and intense heat, with comfort being a must. Given that functional and military-inspired clothing articles occasionally infiltrate our closets, such as cargo trousers and skirts, it's now worthwhile to examine shoes more thoroughly. An ideal starting point is the well-known lace-up boots, which also graced the fall-winter runways: Bally showcased leather boots stylistically akin to ski boots, while Rabanne presented tall boots.
Rabanne fall-winter 2025/2026. Photo: Launchmetrics
More refined versions also exist. Ankle boots with flat soles were displayed by Cecilie Bahnsen and Lacoste. These are characterized by their ease and adaptability – it is easy to picture an ensemble integrating them alongside both sweatpants and a delicate midi skirt. Conversely, Louis Vuitton presents to us a more athletic model, featuring a textile upper in a khaki hue contrasted by an oversized white sole.
Cecilie Bahnsen fall-winter 2025/2026. Photo: Launchmetrics
Lacoste fall-winter 2025/2026. Photo: Launchmetrics
Louis Vuitton fall-winter 2025/2026. Photo: Launchmetrics
It remains uncertain at this juncture whether this mini-trend will evolve. Certainly, a number of fashion enthusiasts may have already possessed similar footwear, but it remains premature to ascertain if they will become a widespread trend. Nonetheless, we continue to embrace traditional hiking boots and sneakers, making it undeniably worthwhile to keep in mind.
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