With toe shoes on the runway, we discuss whether footwear's latest felony is a step too far. We try to figure out whether ‘ugly as cool’ is still news in 2018. And we question whether we’re witnessing the rise of the next big footwear trend, or the thing to finally push ‘ugly’ design into the realm of flat-out parody. i-D Arts and Culture Editor Matthew Whitehouse is joined by i-D Deputy Editor Felix Petty and Rebel Royale, creator of ugly shoe Instagram account @CrimesAgainstShoemanity.
