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There is trouble afoot in the fashion world. UGG Australia and Jimmy Choo Ltd have joined forces to create a hideous, illegitimate love child — UGGS by Jimmy Choo. This calamitous combination of footwear genetics produced a child with a severe identity crisis. The entire line looks as if they took a potato, wrapped it in zebra print, and shot it up with a bedazzler. It was a valiant effort, but in the end, a potato is still a potato. After more than a decade of fabulous, sky-scraping stilettos, the House of Choo has stumbled and smacked its head hard on the runway.

The collaboration has sent some in the fashion world reeling while others, like Nicky Hilton, happily post "UGG-shots" on her twitter. Her pair was probably gifted, but the thin-pocketed laity will have to pre-order their pairs online and shell out $495-$795 in the process.

Hopefully, the new line of CHUGGS will not reinstall the idea that abominable snowman shoes are back in vogue. If Jimmy Choo plays its cards right for the next seven seasons or so, perhaps we will restore the House to its previous status as the high priest of high heels, and CHUGGS will become a laughable memory of the past safely buried in the fashion faux pas graveyard between '90s hair and parachute pants.