FKA Twigs Brings Industrial Drama in Custom Windowsen Boots to VMAs After Party

FKA Twigs closed out the 2025 MTV Video Music Awards in New York on Sunday with one of the night’s most avant-garde footwear statements.

The artist arrived at the after party in distressed thigh-high boots that appeared to be a customization of Windowsen’s Metal Dragon silhouette. The pair — cut in polyurethane with a sharply squared platform measuring 3.8 inches and a stiletto heel reaching a staggering 7.9 inches — carried an industrial patina of scuffs and greenish undertones across their surface.

Twigs has a history with the silhouette, previously wearing the style in brown last August while promoting “The Crow.” Retailing for $1,073 and available in purple, black, brown, highlighter yellow and red, the Metal Dragon boot has become one of Windowsen’s most recognizable designs, known for exaggerating scale and structure.

She styled the boots with a mottled orange set of shorts and a semi-sheer top, layered beneath a cream textured coat. The look carried a distressed palette that echoed the boots’ weathered finish, further sharpened by a deep oxblood lip and bleached brows.

The night marked a shift from the functional direction of her recent shoe collaborations. In June, Twigs unveiled her codesigned Spring Training collection with On, a Swiss sportswear brand. The capsule included the Cloud x FKA sneaker, a dance-inspired silhouette made to support the artist’s practice-based lifestyle. That launch followed a string of campaigns under the banner The Body Is Art, where Twigs explored movement as a medium across footwear and apparel.

Windowsen itself has carved out a niche in pushing footwear to theatrical extremes — square proportions, stacked soles and architectural exaggeration that blur the line between stage costume and couture. She returned to the Metal Dragon silhouette in a distressed finish, pushing its exaggerated proportions further into industrial territory.

At a night where red-carpet looks leaned heavily into gothic codes, Twigs’ boots cut in another direction — oversize, eroded and cyberpunk in effect.