Are men ditching their derbies and oxfords for ballet slippers?

For Spring/Summer 2020, Dries Van Noten presented slip ons that look like ballet slippers. Photo: Dries Van Noten

A good hour's walk down the street is enough to realise that the boundaries between men and women in terms of clothing are becoming increasingly blurred. Even if retailers' shelves still stock collections according to gender, man or woman, girl or boy.

These distinctions could eventually disappear, or at least be reduced, with the explosion of unisex collections. But while ready-to-wear finally seems to be adapting to the 'non-gendered' movement, what about the shoe segment?