“If Robocop ate nothing but All-Bran and tyres, this is what his turds would look like . . . It’s so burdened with superfluous nobbly bits that it’s positively baroque. If this shoe was the only artefact to survive the nuclear apocalypse, what would future civilisations make of us? Possibly that we imbued walking with shamanistic significance, or that we used to plug ourselves into our mainframes by our feet.”

— Justin McGuirk, Why is outdoor gear so ugly? The weird world of performance outerwear