Bring Out Your Inner Rock Star With These Boots

Musicians—not just big-name ones—love Modern Vice, maybe because the shoes are inspired by the stars themselves. Every shoe, since the beginning, has been named after a rock star.

Lightning bolts and stars are one of Modern Vice's signature looks. Courtesy of Modern Vice

NEW YORK—All day, people stopped and stared. They gave compliments, or pointed and flashed a thumbs-up. It was the shoes: I was wearing these David Bowie-meets-Johnny Cash boots, exuberantly bright red and shot through with a white lightning bolt and stars. Let me say right off the bat: they are far from the kind of shoes I’d normally wear.

I’ll admit my regular shoe wardrobe consists of fade-into-the-background, don’t-call-for-attention neutral cuts and colors—metallic bronze is as crazy as it gets.