MSCHF Big Red Boot In EVA Foam, Astro Boy Inspired Cartoon Boots, US 10, Unused With Box
MSCHF Big Red Boot In EVA Foam, Astro Boy Inspired Cartoon Boots, US 10, Unused With Box
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The boots everyone looked twice at
For the collector who wants the most talked about shoe of 2023.
Best for: Streetwear and design collections
Condition notes
Unused, kept in storage.
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The MSCHF Big Red Boot, the viral cartoon boot of 2023 whose shape recalls Astro Boy's own, unused in US size 10.
The Piece
Each boot is a smooth, swollen form in bright red EVA foam with a rounded toe and a high shaft, set on a ribbed sole. The red is the exact colour of the robot's boots, and the joke is in the scale. The boots come in their fitted red box.
US 10, about 28 cm. Unused, kept in storage; date of purchase unknown.
The Big Red Boot
MSCHF, an art collective in Brooklyn founded in 2016, released its Big Red Boot on 16 February 2023: a rubber TPU shell on an EVA sole, its outsized cartoon shape widely compared to Astro Boy's boots.
Astro Boy, Mighty Atom in Japan, first appeared in 1951 as a side character in Osamu Tezuka's Ambassador Atom and was given his own series in April 1952 in Kobunsha's Shonen, where it ran until March 1968. Tezuka Productions describes the 1963 television version as the first commercial animation made by Tezuka's Mushi Production and the first Japanese television animation series, broadcast weekly in thirty minute episodes.
Other unusual pairs are kept in the sneaker vault.
Details
- Maker: MSCHF
- Model: Big Red Boot
- Colour: Red
- Size: US 10, about 28 cm
- Box: Included
- First released: 16 February 2023
Sizes are measured by hand; please allow a small margin.
Condition
- Unused, kept in storage.
- Every photograph is part of the description.
Condition grade S (unused) on the Japanese scale; see Japanese condition ranks, explained.
Authenticity & Care
Label, size and condition are given as described and as the photographs show; measurements are taken flat by hand. Examined and photographed in Japan before dispatch.
Delivery from Japan
Packed by hand in Japan with rigid protection and shipped insured and tracked by EMS or an equivalent express service. Import duties and taxes, where applicable, are payable on arrival. Every sale is final; please ask anything you wish to know before you buy, and see our published policy.
Japanese shoe sizes are given in centimetres of foot length, checked here by hand, and makers differ by half a size or more. Compare with a pair you already wear from the same maker and allow a little margin, the quiet safeguard on a final sale. Our shoe size conversion chart sets Japan beside US, UK, EU and Korean sizes, and for anything it leaves open the curator team replies within one Tokyo business day.
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