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The Shark Pinch Boot Is About to Take Over Every Fall Closet on This Side of the Atlantic

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Sarah Burton has taken a Givenchy house favorite and given it a sharper edge for fall 2026, and the runway made its case in six separate ways. The Shark Pinch boot builds on a shape that already had a following, which is no small thing in an industry that reinvents for reinvention's sake. Seeing it repeated across six variations in a single show reads less like an experiment and more like a house betting on a sure thing. For a category as crowded as the fall boot, that kind of conviction tends to be the tell.

With reporting from WWD.

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