Maison Margiela

Tabi Ankle Boots – Black

$1,490

Slot: Footwear
Formality: 4 / 5
Warmth: 3 / 5
Retail: $1,490

The Tabi Ankle Boots – Black is a shoe from Maison Margiela, $1,490 at retail. Split-toe calfskin ankle boot, the house icon since 1989.

It dresses up, and pairs badly with anything that reads like gym kit.

Tagged contemporary and tailored, and down for going out and work — those are the occasions the builder will actually put it in front of you for.

Look 07 · Architected

Tailoring is the loudest story on the FW26 runway and the quietest in the sales data — Italian menswear turnover fell 2.1% in 2025, to €11.2bn. Drôle's red virgin-wool peacoat is the counter-argument: made in France, priced in euros, and the only genuinely loud thing in an outfit that is otherwise all restraint. The Vince merino and the D Mirror turtleneck are both mid layers, which is the trick — turtleneck first, crew over it, so the neck is solved and the coat has somewhere to open. The Louie trousers are straight, not wide. And the shoe is the Tabi, the most architectural object in the catalog, a boot whose entire premise is that a foot has two parts. In a look about construction it is the only correct answer.

SkipVince's Suede Shirt Jacket at $1,598. The Nubuck Leather Trucker is the same money and does three times the work — suede is a fair-weather material in a winter issue.

The rest of the fit

One garment per remaining slot, chosen the way the builder chooses: occasion overlap, formality that holds across the fit, warmth that agrees with itself, and the layering rules that stop a collar ending up under a hood. Head to toe with the Tabi Ankle Boots – Black: $4,912 at retail.