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These Sneakers for Horses Go For $1,200. Per Shoe
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By Meara Isenberg
With holiday shopping season officially under- way, you can now splurge to get Ruby or Chestnut a gift they'll treas- ure forever: ver- sions of popular sneakers that fit horse hooves.
Horse Kicks, a sneaker retailer for horses, repur- poses branded shoes for equines. You can
custom order a pair of horse- friendly shoes on horsekick- slex.com.
But because a single shoe starts at $1,200 (about £1,070, AU$ 1,916), it'll cost you to get your horse ready for the fashion races. A portion of the sales will be donated to an event called Sneaker Ball Lex, which gives back to local minority
organizations.
The kicks are crafted by Marcus Floyd, a Lexington, Kentucky-based shoe artist. On his Instagram account, @infinite kustomz,
Floyd posted mul- tiple images of full-size sneakers next to horse-size ones. "These are wearable art designed over a medical horse boot and covered with repurposed
sneakers," Floyd wrote. He also listed the shoes in the images: the Court Purple Jordan 1, New Balance 650 and Yeezy Boost 350. These appear to be the shoes in the debut collec- tion of Horse Kicks, which will be donated and auctioned during Sneaker Ball Lex.
"One of the crazi- est collaborations to date for me," Floyd wrote. "It
was a dope process trying to figure out what a horse sneaker would look like while using as much from the 'REAL' shoe as possible."
Horse Kicks has posted one video to its TikTok account so far, and it's glorious. A horse dramati- cally plops a white, blue and black Nike sneak- er on the ground. Then more horse-
ready shoes, which really just look like compact versions of Yeezys and New Balances, flash on screen.
You work that sin- gle sneaker, Stella. I haven't watched it a sin- gle time without laughing.
Anyways, the horse sneakers are already a hit on social media, with people bring- ing the jokes. "Nah these stal- lions about to be mad boujee now," one commenter wrote on an Instagram post about Horse Kicks by Complex. "Imagine a horse roll up on you with better shoe game than you," wrote another. The shoes are fun, but if you don't have a wad of cash to drop on your horse for the holidays, something tells me he may just be fine with a bag of carrots.
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