The Paraboot Michael has to be one of the weirdest leather shoes to hit the big-time. The squat, moc-toed lace-up turned 80 in 2025 and celebrated by only amping up its sublime strangeness through collaborations with partners as disparate as workwear labels and Canadian skaters.

And, with Dover Street Market, Paraboot makes the Michael that much weirder.

Fur-topped Michaels are a certified, if undersung, classic in Paraboot's wheelhouse and they've been available long before the modern Michael renaissance.

But Dover Street Market Ginza tapped into something special with its special-edition Michael.

Not only is the toe topped by contrasting light-colored rabbit fur, but the shoe itself is cut from sumptuous green leather and suede, making for a particularly earthy end result.

The Michael, already an appreciably unusual character, only looks that much stranger when it's dressed up like a stuffed animal. But by going hard on the odd, Dover Street tapped into something special.

Better to lean into the freakiness than tone it down, as Paraboot itself knows. It marked the Michaels' big birthday with limited-edition makes of varying bizarr-itude, including an all-fur cow-printed variant fantastically fantastic.

The right way to make a weird shoe weirder, as Dover Street well knows, is to lean into it. There's nothing worse than an outsider culling their unique characteristics to blend into the crowd. Stand tall! In rabbit fur lace-ups, no less.

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