Fashion Today: See the $727 distressed sneakers sparking backlash online, with critics saying they “mock poverty”

These shoes cost a small fortune and they’re certainly making a statement... but plenty of people are furious about the design.

There's nothing fashionable about mocking homelessness.

Nevertheless, high-end Italian streetwear label Golden Goose is facing backlash for its new Superstar Taped Sneaker, an intentionally filthy and distressed low-top that’s been patched with duct tape.

Critics say the result is an insensitive glamorisation of poverty.

The shabby sneaks are selling at Nordstrom for $530, boasting “crumply, hold-it-all-together tape” and a “grungy rubber cupsole”.

There are people in the world wearing plastic bags as shoes because they can’t afford any, but these HIDEOUS things are selling for $500 the fashion industry is truly so [f — king] stupid it pisses me off like what the actual hell ??????!” one Twitter user fumed, garnering almost 50,000 likes.

Nothing truly says you are a worthless [person] than spending [lavishly] on shoes that mock poverty, writes another critic.

I don’t get it, another user declares.

Golden Goose, meanwhile, apparently doesn’t get the outrage.

The brand set off a similar footwear flap in 2016 with its dirtied-up Distressed Superstar kicks.

At the time, company reps claimed the beat-up look was an homage to West Coast skateboarding culture, not an appropriation of poverty.