British menswear designer Nigel Cabourn has as soon as once more teamed up with CAT Footwear on two boot types for AW23, launching right now, having first collaborated with the model for AW22.
Nigel Cabourn’s web site at present hails what it calls the “excellent match” and a “shared ardour for sturdiness, operate and on a regular basis utility”, and this latest collaboration is impressed by Caterpillar Inc. equipment from 1941, when the corporate was a “right-hand associate for the US Navy Seabees” – embracing the Seabees “Can Do” motto.
Authenticity and industrial heritage are key to the brand new designs, with protecting metal toe options nodding to conventional Caterpillar work boots.
As per the primary collaboration, the 2 types, ‘Utah’ and ‘Omaha’, are named after D-Day seashores cleared by the Seabees utilizing Caterpillar equipment. However, there are new design particulars for the second iterations, ‘Utah Zip’ and ‘Omaha Lace’.
Built atop the outsole of the CAT work boot staple ‘Holton’, the ‘Utah Zip’ introduces a zip-up lace cowl to the silhouette. Concealed draw-cord lacing beneath the zip brings extra heat and safety.
Complete with a protecting metal toe and conventional Goodyear welt round its periphery, the brand new boot additionally has a basic padded collar and higher, this time completed in blended supplies providing defence towards the weather. Finished with twin Caterpillar and Nigel Cabourn branding, the silhouette is available in ‘black olive’ and ‘bison’.
‘Omaha Lace’ is impressed by the drawcords and webbed waist-ties of Nigel Cabourn’s iconic ‘Expedition Parka’. The lace spans all the instep, crisscrossing backwards and forwards all the way in which to the mudguard. It’s then fed by means of signature quarter-webbing loops earlier than wrapping and tying across the boot cuff. It’s a function “designed for its hyper-functionality”, whereas being aesthetically interesting with it.
The silhouette maintains the unique Omaha’s over engineered outsole, in addition to its distinctive industrial 3D moulded toe cap and protecting mudguard, with the brand new addition of a quilted technical nylon for optimum insulation. It’s a boot that’s heavy-duty and resilient, but additionally light-weight and versatile, “providing ultimate wearability on all terrains”.
It additionally is available in two colourways; an all-out black, and a multi-toned olive, each full with twin Caterpillar and Nigel Cabourn branding in CAT’s signature yellow.
The ‘Utah Zip’ fashion is now retailing at £220 on the Nigel Cabourn web site, whereas the ‘Omaha Lace’ is priced at £190.
