Ciara brought a futuristic edge to the Off-White spring 2026 show on Friday in New York, grounding her structured look with a pair of mint-toed statement boots.
The singer’s footwear came in the form of black leather thigh-highs with a rounded, inflated toe, set on an aqua rubber platform. A pin-thin stiletto heel balanced the exaggerated sole, creating an optical clash between bulk and precision that emphasized Off-White’s experimental approach. Close-fitting shafts zipped to the thigh, giving the boots a second-skin effect before ending in that mint punctuation.
Mary J. Blige, Ciara and Jada Pinkett Smith sitting front row at the Off-White show on Friday evening.
Her boots anchored a paneled black-and-white dress that nodded to motorcycle silhouettes with a zip-up bodice, padded hips and sharp contrasts of line. Together, the look doubled as a nod to sport utility and sci-fi fantasy — an alignment with Ib Kamara’s description of the collection as “sexy, romantic, American, street.”
A closer look at Ciara’s mint-dipped black sock-style knee-high boots at the Off-White show during New York Fashion Week on Friday.
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The show itself unfolded on the roof of New Design High School on the Lower East Side, where graffiti artists tagged corrugated walls and students joined the crowd. “I think New York is a boiling pot of multiculturalism and community. Which is the core of Off-White, it’s supposed to be for everybody,” Kamara said in preview notes, adding that his “Pop Romance” lineup leaned into color, maximalism and individual expression. WWD’s Thomas Waller called the collection “a good marriage between [Kamara’s] background and Off-White,” praising its ability to highlight the influence of Black culture in shaping global pop.
Ciara’s choice of exaggerated boots also slotted into her recent run of footwear statements. Just days earlier, she stepped onto the MTV VMAs carpet in Gianvito Rossi Plexi slingbacks, a mirrored update to the transparent trend embraced by Karol G and Camila Mendes. At Pandora’s Talisman launch on Monday, she turned to Jimmy Choo’s Anouk pumps in patent black, resurfacing one of the brand’s most elusive signatures.
In that context, Off-White’s mint-toed cuissards marked another deliberate pivot — away from the sharp lines of Rossi and Choo toward the industrial play and hybrid proportions Abloh’s label is known for.
The pairing reflects a throughline in Ciara’s style: a willingness to move between codes of polish and spectacle, often choosing shoes that sit slightly ahead of a trend curve. Where her VMAs Plexi tapped into a peak moment and her Anouks revived a classic, these boots carried the conversation forward into more directional territory.
Off-White’s spring 2026 show reinforced the point. Between crystallized denim, varsity jackets and covetable new sneakers, the label emphasized individuality as its currency.