Kermit Tesoro's Perverse Fashion: Shoes That Defy Gravity and Convention

Key facts

• Kermit Tesoro is a young Filipino designer.
• His shoes are bizarre and nearly unwearable.
• Designs include super-high heels shaped like the Leaning Tower of Pisa.
• Some shoes feature a cement bridge with a white impaled skull behind the heel.
• Tesoro specializes in high heels without a heel, defying gravity.
• Some shoes are covered in a solid tar cast.
• Others replicate a saber-toothed tiger skull with open jaws.
• Some shoes are hyperrealistically indistinguishable from a horse hoof.
• His masterpiece is 'Polyposis' (2015), a blue marine tangle of octopus tentacles.
• Lady Gaga is a fan of his impaled skull shoes.
• Tesoro says he translates people's biological or psychological deviations into fashion.
• The article was published in Artribune Magazine #38.
• The article was written by Ferruccio Giromini.