Leave it to FKA Twigs to make an entrance in head-turning platforms. At Matières Fécales’ spring 2026 show, the singer stepped out in towering black boots with squared vamps and block heels cut to extreme height.
The silhouette leaned heavy and industrial, a familiar language for the artist. Crimson shredded pants trailed over the boots in strips. A fitted black top and oversize jacket finished the look, layering sharpness without softening the impact below the knee.
FKA Twigs attends the Matières Fécales spring 2026 show wearing black platform boots as part of Paris Fashion Week on Tuesday.
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Twigs has become one of Matières Fécales’ most consistent footwear allies. Just weeks earlier, she opted for the brand’s Christian Louboutin collaboration boots — curved, red-soled platforms made for its fall 2025 debut. At the VMAs after party, she pushed the scale further in distressed Windowsen thigh-highs on a nearly eight-inch heel.
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On Tuesday, the runway she attended carried a slightly different tone. Designers Hannah Rose Dalton and Steven Raj Bhaskaran filled Place Vendôme with roses and layered tulle, aiming to show “the prettiness” often overlooked in their Gothic-coded work. “A lot of people see us and maybe our community as very harsh, Gothic, scary, ugly,” Dalton told WWD’s Joëlle Diderich. “So for us, this was about just showing the prettiness.”
A closer look at FKA Twigs’ black leather platform boots.
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Still, their extremes were intact. Shredded tweeds, hourglass tailoring and Stephen Jones’ sculptural hats kept the drama alive, while Christian Louboutin’s fetishistic footwear proved a challenge for several models navigating the marble set.
Bhaskaran described staging the show in Paris’s most exclusive square as an act of reclamation. “In some landscapes — this environment of Place Vendôme — people like us aren’t really welcome, so it’s actually about taking that obstacle and turning it into something that’s beautiful,” he said.
Against that backdrop, Twigs’ boots landed as both a personal and brand echo — a goth-industrial punctuation that matched Matières Fécales’ balance of fragility and defiance. For one of fashion’s most experimental performers, extreme platforms still read as the most natural ground.