The pointy-toed thigh-highs shown at Hood By Air today weren't exactly what you'd call sensible. And yet New York-based musician Hirakish, an HBA regular, made walking in them look easy, stalking the runway with a certain raw grace. The fire-engine red boots also recalled the style of certain gender-bending icon: Rick James. The risk-taking rocker took to the cover of this 1981 hit album Street Songs shod in a pair of bright red over-the-knee boots that would become the marker of his signature l...
The pointy-toed thigh-highs shown at Hood By Air today weren't exactly what you'd call sensible. And yet New York-based musician Hirakish, an HBA regular, made walking in them look easy, stalking the runway with a certain raw grace. The fire-engine red boots also recalled the style of certain gender-bending icon: Rick James. The risk-taking rocker took to the cover of this 1981 hit album Street Songs shod in a pair of bright red over-the-knee boots that would become the marker of his signature l...
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