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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
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Victoria Moss

Kim Jong-Un’s surprisingly fashion forward fisherman sandal moment

What do Hailey Bieber, Taylor Swift and North Korean dictator Kim Jong-Un have in common? A taste for this summer’s most fashion forward sandals, the humble fisherman, offered by all from Prada (neatly calling it a “cage shoe”) to Church’s and Marks and Spencer.

While Birkenstock and Croc battle it out for every unimaginative pedestrian’s favourite ugly tread, the elegant fisherman has emerged as an alternate style leader, ideal for anyone with ennui over these prior stalwarts of the summer-shoe scene.

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