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Unveiled by provocative New York-based art collective MSCHF — the same group responsible for Lil Nas X's satan sneakers and these eye-wateringly expensive "Birkinstocks" — the giant rubber boots are goofy, impossibly round and suspiciously similar to those worn by Japanese manga character Astro Boy. "Cartoon boots for a Cool 3D World," read the MSCHF press release. "If you kick someone in these boots they go BOING!"
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"Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, but 'ugly fashion' means 'not the mainstream' — it's not what everyone's wearing, it's not what the general population deems as 'in' right now," says Megan Collins, a trend forecaster from Trendera, a firm that analyzes trends through a generational lens.
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