Peter White/Getty Images. Some fall trends, like suits, are straightforward. Others, on the other hand, ... “They’re like elf shoes!” he told Vogue backstage. “They were humorous.

Then again, the elf shoes at Loewe shouldn’t have come as such a surprise given that Anderson had already debuted these mop-like, macramé-covered shoes at his eponymous label J.W.Anderson’s ...