{"id":392797,"date":"2026-04-15T04:49:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T04:49:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/392797\/"},"modified":"2026-04-15T04:49:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T04:49:08","slug":"birkenstock-and-australias-song-for-the-mute-team-up-for-collaboration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/392797\/","title":{"rendered":"Birkenstock and Australia’s Song For the Mute Team Up for Collaboration"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tSHOE SQUAD: Birkenstock<\/a> looked further afield for its next designer<\/a> tie-up.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe German footwear brand has tapped 16-year-old Australian brand Song for the Mute for a four-strong capsule that will make its debut Thursday.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe collaboration is the culmination of a long-held affinity for Birkenstock<\/a>, \u201ca brand that has so much history, has come from so far and has so much backbone,\u201d said the fashion label\u2019s creative director Lyna Ty, who cofounded Song for the Mute with brand director Melvin Tanyana.<\/p>\n

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\t\t\t\t\tThe Gardener<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tCourtesy of Birkenstock<\/p>\n

\n\tAs early as their 2011 runway presentation, where they won Australia<\/a>\u2019s National Designer<\/a> of the Year gong, Birkstenstock footwear has appeared on their runways and look books, occasionally zhuzhed up with their fabrics, with prints of even hand-painted sketches by the brand\u2019s design director Karim Gaaloul.<\/p>\n

\n\tWhile these experiments were not for commercial purposes, it garnered attention from clients, retailers \u2014 and Birkenstock.<\/p>\n

\n\tFast-forward more than a decade, the two brands are now formally coming together for a four-strong cast of character archetypes that sees Song for the Mute imagine full looks \u2014 Birkenstocks included.<\/p>\n

\n\tCue The Artist, which pairs distressed denim overalls with a paint-splattered London shoe; The Gardener in a washed drill crochet flower jumpsuit worn with SuperBirki2.0 reimagined in tan-colored rubber with grass-printed insoles; The Rebel, wearing a rugged short-sleeve jumpsuit with Birkenstock\u2019s Paris in black pony hair, and The Collector, whose tailored felt overalls called for Amsterdam shoes in black polished leather with a yet-unseen welt stitch detail.<\/p>\n

\n\tTy told WWD she felt that \u201cas a human being, you probably will gravitate toward one of these four characters\u201d and chose jumpsuits as garments as this matched the function-first vision she and Tanyana have of Birkenstock.<\/p>\n

\n\tAll shoes feature a metal rivet bearing both brand names, a detail changed for the first time in Birkenstock\u2019s 250-year history, according to the footwear company.<\/p>\n

\n\tThis marks the first time Birkenstock has collaborated with a brand from Australia<\/a>. Its previous fashion hookups have spanned the likes of Dior, Valentino, Rick Owens and, most recently, Etro.<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\"Tola<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\tTola Adefioye, founder of London-based vintage furniture specialist Old Old Woods, wearing the Collector design.<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tCourtesy of Birkenstock<\/p>\n

\n\tPriced between 190 euros and 320 euros, the footwear will launch at selected retailers worldwide as well as on the websites of Song for the Mute and 1774, Birkenstock\u2019s Paris-based creative studio for design, innovation and partnerships. The T-shirts featured with each look will also be available on both sites.<\/p>\n

\n\tMeanwhile, the clothing will launch Thursday on the Australian brand\u2019s website.<\/p>\n

\n\tThis collaboration comes as the German footwear specialist acquired in October its longstanding distributor Birkenstock Australia Pty, through its 100-percent-owned Asia-based subsidiary.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe Australian company, which has around 60 employees, recorded an annual revenue of 88.6 million Australian dollars for the 12 months to June 30, 2025. It counts more than 300 business-to-business partners and operates two owned stores in Melbourne, a monobrand partner door in Sydney and an online store.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SHOE SQUAD: Birkenstock looked further afield for its next designer tie-up. The German footwear brand has tapped 16-year-old…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":392798,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[972,186884,20984,186885,146,85,46],"class_list":{"0":"post-392797","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-australia","9":"tag-birkenstock","10":"tag-designer","11":"tag-designer-collaborations","12":"tag-entertainment","13":"tag-il","14":"tag-israel"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392797","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=392797"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392797\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/392798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=392797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=392797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=392797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}