Garde Slip: Rick Owens X Birkenstock

The Avant handles a classic.  Rick Owens, the rogue American designer whose avant garde designs have a serious tenured cult following, has teamed up with the cozy earthy footwear camp at Birkenstock to rework two of their classic styles, the Boston and the Arizona.  The uppers are a textural exquisite suede and features a contoured logo-stamped footbed, extended adjustable strap, matte grey logo-debossed hardware and an EVA sole.  It's a bit of laid-back easiness comfortably from the hands of a brilliant designer that doesn't reinvent the wheel but just makes it more cool to drive.  Both suede versions are available now and also in the additional black Arizona styles at Barneys.com.