Feng Chen Wang took her collaboration with Ugg to the next level at her spring/summer 2025 runway presentation at the Palais De Tokyo in Paris on Wednesday.
During the show, the Chinese-born and London-based menswear designer known for her bold conceptual designs, showed her upcoming collaboration with the Deckers-owned footwear brand – this time tackling the Tasman shoe.
Inspired by her love of ancient artifacts for her latest tie-up with Ugg, Wang cleverly incorporated the crackled glaze elements of porcelain along with the unique abstract outline of clay on to the upper of the Tasman. The style was seen in four colorways – white, black, a light mint green, light brown and ashy grey.
“Bound by an ardent love for ancient artifacts, Feng is a collector,” the show notes said. “She often falls under the spell of their incredibly detailed texture and crafts kill. Each enchanting item tempered by time, its glaze softening and deepening, narrating a beauty sculpted by time.”
Aside from the new Tasman runway moment, Wang debuted a new removable molded sole that can be added to the upcoming Ugg style. The sole, dubbed “The Feng Sole Series 1,” is an other-worldly concept that takes the shape of an alienlike platform sandal. When styled with the Tasman, the integrated shoe becomes on major statement-making shoe moment. It was featured on the runway in white, black and brown colorways.
This isn’t the first time Wang has created a removable molded sole for a shoe collaboration. In her fall/winter 2024 show, the designer developed the “Chahu” sole to go along with the Chuck 70 2-in-1 sneaker that released earlier this year. This molded sole was inspired by the shape of a deformed teapot with irregular edges and curved three-dimensionally.
She has also teamed up with Ugg multiple times in the past. For their fourth tie-up in October, Wang reimagined the Ugg Tasman shoe as a three-in-one design that can be converted into a sandal and a slipper.
As for the rest of her spring/summer 2025 collection, the lived-in charm of her Ugg collaboration translated across the line. Bamboo crafts and dyeing techniques such as “yuzi xie,” a form of micro tie-dyeing that creates a waffle texture in addition to the patterning, were other ideas that Wang blended into her design.
