Rosalía’s Boots Are Not Exactly Made For Walking
Forget well-fitting boots. Rosalía has a more fabulous—and far less wearable—footwear preference.
On Monday, the star took to Instagram in a pair of boots that curled out to surrealist extremes. At the top, they adhered to traditional cowboy codes, with white embossing along the sides and utilitarian pull straps stitched on. Down by the front, however, things took a stretched-out turn. Instead of ending at the toes, the shoes narrowed and spiraled upwards in a gravity-defying crescent shape. Looking right at home in her Mexico City hotel room, the singer offset the absurdist design with a simple white pointelle bodysuit by Cou Cou Intimates. For extra personalization—and to ensure no one forgot who was wearing them—the sides were embroidered in bold with “LA ROSALÍA.”
Though they appear tailor-made for Rosalía’s recent stream of contortionist clothing, the boots are actually traditional Jugo boots or Mexican pointy boots. Originating in Mexico as part of the Tribal Guarachero male-dominated music scene in the early 2000s, they have evolved into more audacious fashion statements in recent years, taking on longer, pointier shapes and serving as an elaborate style choice for stage performers.
In 2014, they punctured mainstream fashion when Comme Des Garçons debuted an iteration of the designs on its spring 2015 men’s runway, under the creative direction of Rei Kawakubo. They became a signature design code for the label, and a decade later, the boots were reintroduced on the runway for the brand’s spring 2027 men’s show.
For Rosalía, they fit rather perfectly into her singular avant-garde aesthetic. In recent months, while on her global Lux Tour, the singer has been rewriting the rules of pop-star dress and testing the limits of archetypally feminine codes, from her underwear-baring latex minis to her punky, provocative tutus.
After concluding her multi-show residency in Mexico last week, she used her boots-first look to pay homage to the Latin American country. “Mexico, thank you for the inspiration 🤍,” she wrote in the caption of her Instagram post. “What a blast I had with you these past few weeks!!” You could say she’s boots down.
