FKA Twigs set aside her surreal platform streak for Tom Ford’s precision on Wednesday, arriving at the house’s spring 2026 show in Paris in a pair of 105mm patent leather pumps.

The design — a pointed-toe style with a wide-cut vamp and lacquered ankle strap threaded with wraparound ties — is a past-season piece, no longer available through the brand but circulating on resale. Its slick finish and knife-like line cut neatly against Twigs’ fall 2025 minidress, also from Ford, a black chain-trimmed column silhouette accented with a sweeping cape.

The choice marked a clear turn from the extremes she’s leaned into this month. Just 24 hours earlier, Twigs stepped into Matières Fécales’ spring show in block-heel boots with squared vamps and towering platforms. At the VMAs at the beginning of September, she pushed further in distressed Windowsen thigh-highs reaching nearly eight inches in height. And at Pandora’s Talisman launch, she opted for Christian Louboutin’s collaboration boots for Matières Fécales — a curved-back platform engineered for theatrical scale.

By contrast, the Tom Ford pumps were stripped back to precision. Their 105mm rise kept proportion taut, while the cutout ankle strap echoed the house’s ongoing exploration of tactile hardware — recently updated with T-Latch sandals and tortoiseshell-heel variations, as seen on Kylie Jenner walking into the show.

Styled by Billy Lobos, the artist’s look aligned neatly with Haider Ackermann’s sophomore outing at Tom Ford, which WWD’s Samantha Conti described as “light, dark, strong, fragile.” The collection opened with a cinematic spotlight on patent mesh dresses, then shifted into gelato tailoring and sculptural gowns, a mix that had Janet Jackson calling Ackermann “a genius” from the front row.

For Twigs, who has spent much of 2025 testing the limits of scale and fetishistic form, the stiletto reads as both archival and corrective — a pivot into sleekness at a show designed to reframe Ford’s legacy for a new era.