{"id":416,"date":"2026-11-09T23:01:59","date_gmt":"2026-11-10T04:01:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hiphopstories.media\/?p=416"},"modified":"2026-11-09T23:02:01","modified_gmt":"2026-11-10T04:02:01","slug":"first-look-yes-yeezy-and-ian-connors-sicko-link-up-on-a-hiking-boot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hiphopstories.media\/?p=416","title":{"rendered":"First Look: Ye’s Yeezy and Ian Connor’s SICK\u00d6 Link Up on a Hiking Boot"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

A high-top hiking boot linking Ian Connor’s SICK\u00d6 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 \u2014 Connor’s cult streetwear label and Ye’s footwear line \u2014 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Ye
The @cop.em cover graphic for the SICK\u00d6 x Yeezy hiking boot, showing Ye and Ian Connor with the boots. Photo via @cop.em.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"All
All six colorways of the SICK\u00d6 x Yeezy hiking boot. Photos via @cop_o_clock \/ @cop.em.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The branding is unmistakable once you look closely. The pop-up pairs carry a winged \u201cYS\u201d monogram on the side panel, \u201cYZY\u201d lettered vertically on the heel tab, and a small \u201cYZY\u201d label on the tongue. On the black and dark brown pairs, yellow \u201csick\u00f6\u201d 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Triple-black
Close-up of the triple-black pair, showing the yellow \u201csick\u00f6\u201d script on the toe. Photos via @cop_o_clock \/ @cop.em.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"Black
The black pair’s sole and heel tab, with \u201cYZY\u201d lettered vertically. Photos via @cop_o_clock \/ @cop.em.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"Cream
Close-up of the cream\/off-white pair’s side panel. Photos via @cop_o_clock \/ @cop.em.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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 \u2014 high-cut and worn with the laces loose or tied depending on the shot \u2014 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Tan
The tan\/green pair with red laces, worn on a bench. Photos via @cop_o_clock \/ @cop.em.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"Light
The light grey\/taupe colorway, close up on foot. Photos via @cop_o_clock \/ @cop.em.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"Tan
The tan colorway on foot on a red carpet. Photos via @cop_o_clock \/ @cop.em.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"Tan
Ankle close-up of the tan\/green pair with red laces, outdoors. Photos via @cop_o_clock \/ @cop.em.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"Tan
The tan\/green colorway with pink laces, on a bench. Photos via @cop_o_clock \/ @cop.em.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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 SICK\u00d6 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 SICK\u00d6, and Connor’s long association with Ye gives the collaboration a backstory that a one-off leak would not have.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Ian
Ian Connor holding the dark brown pair at the Atlanta pop-up. Photos via @cop_o_clock \/ @cop.em.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"Dark
The dark brown pair laid out on concrete. Photos via @cop_o_clock \/ @cop.em.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"Dark
The dark brown pair on foot, with untied laces. Photos via @cop_o_clock \/ @cop.em.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"Brown
Side close-up of the brown boot on foot. Photos via @cop_o_clock \/ @cop.em.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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 \u2014 neither of which matches the pairs seen at the pop-up, which carry the winged \u201cYS\u201d 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Early
EARLY LEAKED RENDERS (Oct. 21, via @05blur): an earlier version of the boot, with a different side badge and a multi-colour sole on the cream pair \u2014 not the pop-up pairs.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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 \u2014 six colorways, a distinct set of SICK\u00d6 and Yeezy marks, and a collaboration that, if it reaches shelves, will arrive with plenty of attention already attached.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ye and Ian Connor have surfaced a SICK\u00d6 x Yeezy high-top hiking boot in six colorways, first seen at Connor’s Atlanta pop-up. Here is a first look at the design, the branding, and what has \u2014 and hasn’t \u2014 been confirmed so far.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":399,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","video_url":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/hiphopstories.media\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/05-onfoot-closeup-redlaces.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hiphopstories.media\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hiphopstories.media\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hiphopstories.media\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hiphopstories.media\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hiphopstories.media\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=416"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/hiphopstories.media\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":420,"href":"https:\/\/hiphopstories.media\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416\/revisions\/420"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hiphopstories.media\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hiphopstories.media\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hiphopstories.media\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hiphopstories.media\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}