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the day changes,
the shoe changes
with it

THYS is the world’s first luxury high heel with continuously adjustable height from 1.7″ to 4″ in one self-contained mechanism.

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Three people walking through a pale room, blurred in motion

One heel.
Every height.

Kitten heel to high heel.

Collapsed, it is a kitten heel. Turn it manually and it extends up to a full high heel.

PATENT PENDING

1.7″ The heel collapsed
Collapsed
4″ The heel fully extended
Extended
A woman in a long linen shirt dress rising from a wooden chair
Morning
A woman in a blazer pinning photographs to a studio wall
At work

Kitten height for the walk between meetings. More lift for meetings. Full height for the evenings that ask for it.

A woman walking down a city street carrying flowers wrapped in paper
Between meetings
A couple in evening clothes pausing on a marble staircase
Special evenings
A dancer mid-leap in striped, gathered trousers

Made for movement, not just a photo.

A foot in dark tights balanced on its toes on a polished steel sphere

Precision engineering.

2.5″

A polished mid-heel for the working day.

Luxury craft.

The THYS heel mechanism, fully collapsed, beside a U.S. quarter for scale
Collapsed heel, quarter for scale
  1. 01

    Infinite heights, one pair

    Any continuous height between 1.7″ and 4″.

  2. 02

    Manual or motorized

    Two adjustment modes on one platform.

  3. 03

    Self-contained mechanism

    Nothing to swap, carry, or lose.

  4. 04

    Engineered to endure

    High yield strength, stiffness, endurance and corrosion resistance.

  5. 05

    Comfort is the new luxury

    Wellness without giving up the silhouette.

  6. 06

    Category defining

    No direct competitors today.

N°1, The Rabbit’s Foot: a black leather ankle-strap sandal on the telescoping steel heel

No1The Rabbit’s Foot

$995

Height
1.7″ to 4″, any point between
Heel
Stainless steel
Upper
Leather, crafted in Europe
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Denise Kwong, co-founder of THYS

“I quit looking for the right heel and decided to make it.”

Meet co-founder Denise Kwong, Harvard grad, former tech investor and CMO.

She spent years running between meetings in heels that weren’t made for the whole day, then trained in handmade shoemaking in Florence to make one that was.

The limited first edition.

Join the waitlist for first access to preorders.

Flowers preserved in stacked blocks of ice