Supreme x Dr. Martens Split Toe 5-Eye Shoe
Supreme vs. Original
Supreme version
Original — Dr. Martens
2046 Vintage Smooth Leather Oxford Shoes
About the original
The Supreme x Dr. Martens Split Toe 5-Eye Shoe is a derby built on the Dr. Martens 2046 last, a five-eyelet archive silhouette from the 1960s with a tapered almond toe and the brand's AirWair cushioned PVC sole. The SS21 collab added apron-style split-toe stitching across the vamp and arrived in three colorways: vintage smooth black, vintage smooth orange, and pony-hair zebra. Dr. Martens was founded in 1960 in Wollaston, Northamptonshire, where the 2046 is still assembled on the original factory's Goodyear-welt tooling. Retail was $178. Dr. Martens' standard 2046 Vintage Smooth Leather Oxford (no split-toe stitching) retails for $140 at drmartens.com: same last, same sole, same leather.
About Dr. Martens
Dr. Martens is a British footwear brand whose air-cushioned sole was invented in 1947 by Dr. Klaus Maertens and Dr. Herbert Funck in Seeshaupt, Germany, after Maertens rebuilt his army boots with a rubber sole made from reclaimed tires. R. Griggs Group of Northamptonshire bought the UK patent rights in 1959 and produced the eight-eyelet 1460 boot in cherry-red smooth leather on April 1, 1960, at its Cobbs Lane factory in Wollaston. The 1461 shoe and 2976 Chelsea followed. Permira acquired the company in 2014 and floated it on the LSE in 2021. Supreme has collaborated with Dr. Martens on co-branded 1460 boots and Chelsea silhouettes.
