First Look: Ye’s Yeezy and Ian Connor’s SICKÖ Link Up on a Hiking Boot
A high-top hiking boot linking Ian Connor’s SICKÖ with Ye’s Yeezy has surfaced in Atlanta, where pairs appeared at Connor’s pop-up. The first look, shared across sneaker pages including @cop_o_clock on Oct. 25 and @cop.em on Oct. 26, shows a rugged, chunky silhouette in six colorways: light grey/taupe, triple black, dark brown/chocolate, off-white/cream, olive-brown with red laces, and dark brown with black laces. It is the kind of unexpected pairing that fits both names — Connor’s cult streetwear label and Ye’s footwear line — and the photos, taken on foot and in hand at the pop-up, give the clearest view yet of what the two have been working on.
The branding is unmistakable once you look closely. The pop-up pairs carry a winged “YS” monogram on the side panel, “YZY” lettered vertically on the heel tab, and a small “YZY” label on the tongue. On the black and dark brown pairs, yellow “sickö” script runs across the toe. The soles on the pop-up pairs are plain and colour-matched to each boot, keeping the focus on the upper and its hiking-boot proportions rather than on a contrasting outsole.
The six colorways cover a deliberately earthy range, from the pale grey/taupe and off-white/cream pairs to triple black and two dark browns, with the olive-brown pair’s red laces providing the loudest accent. On foot, the boot reads as a true hiker — high-cut and worn with the laces loose or tied depending on the shot — whether on a bench, on concrete, on a red carpet, or outdoors. The tan/green pair in particular recurs across the on-foot photos, sometimes with red laces and sometimes with pink laces, showing how much the boot’s character changes with a lace swap.
The link-up has a history behind it. Ye and Connor were spotted together in Atlanta in July, and Connor styled for Ye back in the Yeezy Season era, according to @captaincreps, whose Oct. 27 post also notes that an earlier SICKÖ hiker dropped last year after a viral moment in which Connor wore Skechers to dinner. That context matters: this is not a first flirtation with hiking footwear for SICKÖ, and Connor’s long association with Ye gives the collaboration a backstory that a one-off leak would not have.
Readers should note that the design has changed since the first leaked renders appeared on Oct. 21 via @05blur. Those early renders show a different side badge and, on the cream pair, a multi-colour sole — neither of which matches the pairs seen at the pop-up, which carry the winged “YS” monogram and plain colour-matched soles. The grid below shows those early renders, and it should be read as an earlier version of the boot, not as the finished pairs from Atlanta.
For now, this is a first look, not a launch announcement. No release date and no price have been announced, and Yeezy has not publicly confirmed the collaboration, according to @cop.em. Until either side says more, the boots exist in the photos from the pop-up and the posts that shared them — six colorways, a distinct set of SICKÖ and Yeezy marks, and a collaboration that, if it reaches shelves, will arrive with plenty of attention already attached.