At just 13 years old, Jaden Smith hit the 2011 BET Awards in Supra Skytops. Nearly 15 years later, he’s wearing unreleased croc-textured New Balances to the Met Gala and reworking Louis Vuitton’s women’s boots into front-row statements.
While he was recently named Christian Louboutin’s first men’s creative director, he was both a longtime New Balance ambassador and co-founder of MSFTSrep — the streetwear label he launched with Willow Smith and friends in 2012 — Jaden’s shoe choices are never just about style. They’re about self-expression, disruption and, yes, a little bit of theater.
Whether he’s tucking oversized denim into combat boots in Paris or pairing a 3D castle headpiece with his sneakers at the Grammys, Smith leans into contrast: soft and sharp, classic and strange, masculine and not. Check out Jaden Smith’s standout shoe moments to date.
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Jaden Smith Shoe Style
Image Credit: WireImage Jaden Smith attended “The Karate Kid” photo call at Proyecciones Cinema on July 2010 in Madrid, Spain wearing Supra Skytop sneakers in gray.
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Jaden Smith Shoe Style
Image Credit: Getty Images In June 2011, an 11-year old Willow Smith and 13-year old Jaden attended the BET Awards held at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles. Both siblinggs opted for boots, with Jaden wearing a pair of Supra Skytops for the occasion.
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Jaden Smith Shoe Style
Image Credit: FilmMagic Jaden Smith attended the Variety’s Power Of Young Hollywood at NeueHouse Hollywood in August 2016 in Los Angeles. He wore Emerica’s The Romero Laced Shoe in black and white.
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Jaden Smith Shoe Style
Image Credit: Allen Berezovsky Jaden Smith attends the 5th Annual Beautycon Festival Los Angeles at Los Angeles Convention Center on August 2017. He wore a classic pair of Vans Sk8-Hi Skate sneakers in black and white.
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Jaden Smith Shoe Style
Image Credit: Getty Images Jaden Smith attends the “Skate Kitchen” New York premiere at IFC Center on August 2018 in New York City. He wore the Jaden Smith New Balance 1700 x Louis Vuitton Archlight, which was a custom, one-off sneaker designed by Jake Danklefs for Smith. The sneaker combined the upper of a New Balance 1700 with the chunky sole of the Louis Vuitton Archlight.
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Jaden Smith Shoe Style
Image Credit: WireImage Jaden Smith attends the CFDA Fashion Awards at Casa Cipriani in November 2022 in New York City. He wore Thom Browne’s Longwing Duck shoes in black.
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Jaden Smith Shoe Style
Image Credit: Getty Images Jaden Smith attends the photo call ahead of the Louis Vuitton Cruise Show 2024 at Isola Bella in May 2023 in Stresa, Italy. He wore the Louis Vuitton Archlight sneakers.
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Jaden Smith Shoe Style
Image Credit: Gilbert Flores for Variety At the 2024 Met Gala, Jaden paired Thom Browne tailoring and a pleated skirt with sleek New Balance sneakers, while Willow balanced her Dior Haute Couture jacket with pointed black patent leather stilettos.
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Jaden Smith Shoe Style
Image Credit: Aitor Rosas Suñe/WWD Front row at Louis Vuitton cruise 2025, Smith wore women’s LV Beaubourg ankle boots in smooth calf leather, featuring silver buckles, chunky heels and contrast stitching — a bold nod to gender fluidity.
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Jaden Smith Shoe Style
Image Credit: GC Images In Tribeca in August 2024, Smith wore an unreleased light blue version of his MSFTSrep 0.01 sneaker — a New Balance collab that reflects the gender-fluid, self-expression-driven ethos of the label he co-founded in 2012.
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Jaden Smith Shoe Style
Image Credit: Getty Images for Academy Museum Jaden Smith attends the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures 4th Annual Gala in Partnership with Rolex at Academy Museum of Motion Pictures on October 2024 in Los Angeles waering the Louis Vuitton Berlin Ankle Boot.
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Jaden Smith Shoe Style
Image Credit: Linnea Stephan/BFA.com At Louis Vuitton and Tyler, The Creator’s spring 2024 dinner in L.A., Smith wore the brand’s Archlight sneakers — a chunky favorite he’s styled repeatedly, including with combat boots and tucked denim in Paris last fall.
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Jaden Smith Shoe Style
Image Credit: Getty Images Jaden Smith attends the Diesel fashion show during the Milan Fashion Week Womenswear Fall 2024 in February 2024 in Milan, Italy wearing an acid-washed look complete with white sneakers.
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Jaden Smith Shoe Style
Image Credit: Gilbert Flores At the 2025 Grammy Awards in Los Angeles, Smith paired his New Balance sneakers with a cinched-waist Louis Vuitton tuxedo and a full 3D castle headpiece by Abodi and Szilveszter Mako.
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Jaden Smith Shoe Style
Image Credit: Gilbert Flores At the 2025 Met Gala Celebrating “Superfine: Tailoring Black Style” held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in May 2025 in New York, Smith wore an unreleased croc-embossed New Balance 1906L with a custom Ozwald Boateng look. A longtime New Balance ambassador, he’s previously worn his Vision Racer and 0.01 models on the Met steps.
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Jaden Smith Shoe Style
Image Credit: Getty Images In March 2025, Jaden Smith attended the LVMH Prize as part of Paris Fashion Week at Avenue Montaigne in Paris, wearing Louis Vuitton boots.
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Jaden Smith Shoe Style
Image Credit: Stéphane Feugère/WWD At Louis Vuitton’s Cruise 2026 show in Avignon, Smith wore soft gray women’s slouch boots from the fall 2025 collection with a voluminous maroon parka and lantern-shaped LV bag — a nod to Pharrell’s gender-fluid vision for the house.
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Jaden Smith Shoe Style
Image Credit: Swan Gallet At Louis Vuitton’s fall 2025 show in Paris, Smith wore black dress shoes with a block heel and no visible hardware, pairing them with baggy jeans and a new trompe-l’oeil Petite Malle bag from the brand’s spring 2025 collection.