How Clarks became the hottest shoe brand— again

No longer simply the spot for school shoes.

Clarks, internationally renowned thanks to the Wallabee — a shoe beloved by everyone from David Bowie to Florence Welch, Liam Gallagher to Lebron James — celebrates its 200th birthday this year, as well as its return to the height of fashion. Searches for the Wallabee are up 382 per cent on TikTok, while a new campaign sees Gallagher front the brand in a pair of Desert Rain shoes, a rare Clarks silhouette which originally launched in the early 2000s.