HOKA’s Tor Summit sneaker, the brand’s Alpine-inspired silhouette that riffs on a classic hiking boot, has had quite the last 12 months.
And now, alongside Chicago-based streetwear label Hidden Characters, HOKA is dropping another take on the chunky sneaker that comes fully-equipped with a luxe nubuck leather upper and the shoe's archetypal ultra-grippy rubber mudguard.
Since its inception back in 2022, the Tor Summit has been one of HOKA's most talked-about shoes — and one that’s proven so popular that it’s perpetually out of stock.
Such is demand for the Tor Summit, HOKA released a follow-up evolution of it earlier this year with the aptly-titled Tor Summit 2, a slightly chunkier variation.
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The Tor Summit is big, it’s chunky, and it’s seriously robust, so the fact that it keeps selling out as fast as HOKA is restocking them is a testament to both the shoe’s practicality, but also down to the overall look itself.
This season, though, Hidden Characters has reinterpeted the HOKA Tor Summit in an artful yet moody way— including stark black and white uppers and an ice blue outsole below.
The result? The Tor Summit Hidden Characters, a shoe that takes the HOKA Tor family’s hiking heritage and reinterprets it for the city streets – remixing it with performance-meets-style design elements like zig-zag stitching and sturdy metal eyelet hardware.
The Tor Summit Hidden Characters, available online at HOKA now for $220, is the latest in a long line of objectively great-looking sneakers to have come off of HOKA's consistent conveyor-belt of late including silhouettes like the Mafate Three 2, the Ora Primo Mule, and the Kaha Low.
However, when it comes to the Tor Summit and anything to do with it, HOKA just cannot be beaten.
