Astro Boots “The Big Red boot is a realisation of a specific sort of cartoonish abstraction of a shoe," MSCHF co-founder Daniel Greenberg told style website Highsnobiety. “In (the) cartoon world, representation works with reduced information to immediately imply an object, rather literally depict it.

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The anime character Astro Boy. Astro Boy's fresh eye

Dubbed the Astro Boy boots thanks to their similarity to the footwear favoured by the Japanese manga character, the Big Red Boots are rubber footwear created by the Brooklyn art collective MSCHF.

Style note MSCHF is an art collective known for its wild drops - physical art, performances or simulations.

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Astro note Astro Boy, known in Japan by its original name Mighty Atom, is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Osamu Tezuka.

Serialized in Kobunsha's Shōnen from 1952 to 1968.

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