'Why not?': This Japanese designer creates shoes that come with metallic teeth

For the shoes with metallic teeth that Shintaro Yamamoto designed for the Japanese label Doublet, he hand-stitched the upper “jaw” so that it stayed open. Photo: Kentaro Takahashi/The New York Times

Like the tagline of a horror film, the shoes... had teeth.

At the Japanese label Doublet’s fashion show in Paris in January, models tramped out in dress shoes with their toes angled upward, like the ajar maw of a bass at feeding time.