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Some shoes are made to walk in — these were made to make you stop scrolling.

TheThings Celebrity’s countdown “10 Crazy Shoes You Won’t Believe” pulls together ten of the strangest, most sculptural, and least walkable shoe designs ever put into production, tracing a line from wearable art galleries to red carpets. The video leans heavily on the intersection of high fashion and pure spectacle, spotlighting designers who treat a shoe less like a garment and more like a sculpture with a foot-shaped hole in it. Front and center is Israeli designer Kobi Levi, whose surreal footwear has jumped from gallery pedestals straight onto pop culture’s biggest stages.

• Kobi Levi’s “Chewing Gum” pump turns a stepped-on wad of gum into an actual stiletto heel, stretched into a pink strand beneath a sneaker-style upper.
• Levi, a Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design graduate, built his reputation on wearable sculptures inspired by everyday objects — work that led to Lady Gaga wearing his custom “Double Boot” in her 2011 “Born This Way” video.
• The countdown also features Alexander McQueen’s Armadillo Boots, alongside novelty designs like hammer heels, hoof-shaped heels, a heeled ballet sneaker, and shoes fashioned to look like meat and chicken feet.

Kobi Levi’s Object-Shoes

Levi’s “Chewing Gum” shoe is the kind of design that makes you do a double take on a shelf before you realize what you’re looking at. The sneaker-style upper looks ordinary enough until your eye hits the heel: a stretched, glossy pink strand meant to mimic gum pulled taut off a sidewalk, doubling as the literal structural support of the shoe. It’s disgusting and clever in equal measure, which is exactly the reaction Levi has built a career chasing.

That career started at the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, where Levi developed his signature approach — turning mundane, often overlooked objects into wearable sculpture. His portfolio has since ballooned into dozens of pieces that reimagine everything from banana peels to piano keys as heels and uppers, each one designed to be photographed as much as worn.

A sneaker upper with a stiletto heel stretched out like real chewing gum — that’s the whole joke, and it works precisely because it looks disgustingly real.

Lady Gaga’s Runway Connection

Levi’s biggest crossover moment came when Lady Gaga wore his custom “Double Boot” in the 2011 “Born This Way” music video, putting his object-inspired designs in front of a global pop audience overnight. Gaga’s own history of heel-less, architectural footwear made her the natural face for this kind of extreme design — she’d already spent years proving that a shoe could function as a headline-grabbing statement piece rather than a practical accessory, not unlike the kind of record-chasing novelty stunts covered in the world’s longest T-shirt launch. That pop-culture stamp of approval is a big reason the countdown treats Levi’s work as the centerpiece rather than just another entry.

The Rest of the Countdown

Beyond Levi’s gum heel, the video runs through nine other entries built around the same idea: take a familiar object or texture and force it into shoe form. There’s a “Chicken Feet” shoe out of Japan playing into the country’s kawaii aesthetic, hoof-shaped heels styled like an elongated deer leg, and a ballet-heeled sneaker that grafts a pointed-toe, ribbon-tied ballet flat onto a towering stiletto.

The list also digs into more aggressive designs — hammer-shaped heels, an industrial “Headcrusher” shoe built to look like a torture device, and Alexander McQueen’s Armadillo Boots, arguably the most famous entry on the list thanks to their sculptural arch and extreme height. Rounding things out are a “Scary Paws” shoe styled after demon claws, a hand-sequinned “Bubble Wrap” pump, and a pair of shoes literally constructed from meat — the kind of extreme material choice that puts this list in the same conversation as other over-the-top design showcases, including the world’s most expensive royal wedding dresses, where cost and spectacle matter more than practicality.

The Design Philosophy Behind the Chaos

What ties all ten entries together isn’t comfort or wearability — it’s the same impulse that drives concept cars and haute couture gowns nobody actually wears down the street. Designers like Levi and McQueen use the shoe as a canvas precisely because it’s such a rigid, functional object; twisting it into a hoof, a hammer, or a stretched piece of gum forces a reaction. Whether that reaction is admiration or disgust seems to be beside the point.

None of these ten pairs are heading to a shoe store near you, and that’s exactly the appeal — Kobi Levi’s gum heel has spent years as a gallery and internet curiosity rather than a retail item, and it’s stayed there by design.