Michelle Obama makes a splash with $4,000 designer boots

Michelle Obama’s footwear is causing a fashion frenzy, after the former first lady sported sparkling $4,000 designer boots.

{mosads}The “Becoming” author stepped out in the eye-catching pair of Balenciaga boots on Wednesday at a Brooklyn stop on her nationwide book tour. Former “Sex and the City” star and fashion designer Sarah Jessica Parker served as the celebrity guest moderator for the chat about Obama’s best-selling memoir.

The gold, thigh-high boots retail for $3,800, and several sizes were sold out or low in stock on at least one site selling them after Obama’s appearance.

Multiple fashion gurus and first lady watchers went wild for the lux look:

GOOD GOOGA MOOGA.

MICHELLE DID NOT COME TO PLAY WITH YOU. SHE CAME TO SLAY. pic.twitter.com/vmKtGWFVuU

— Brittany Packnett (@MsPackyetti) December 20, 2018

I Pledge Allegiance to Michelle Obama’s Sparkling Gold Balenciaga Boots
+ + @MichelleObama =https://t.co/wMobcdeaHd

— Erika Brown Ekiel (@ebekiel) December 20, 2018

Michelle Obama!! You are beautiful and Lord the boots are https://t.co/DpVcpZJU1m

— Katrina Voss (@Voss_lady1) December 20, 2018

Okay Michelle, touché! Wearing thigh high glittery Balenciaga boots at her age and looking FABULOUS is another level! pic.twitter.com/fTR8RPApf7

— Zala Glavic (@zalaglavic) December 20, 2018

Be the Michelle in gold thigh-high boots you wish to see in the world.

— Dawn Huckelbridge (@dhuckelbridge) December 20, 2018

But not everyone was a fan of the glittery foot fashion:

I have seen Michelle in some very gorgeous gowns. But this horrible Yellow Gown and those boots look hideous on her. Who dressed her in this Big Bird costume. Not flattering at all.

— sandra (@italianmom555) December 20, 2018

Michelle Obama Slays on Her Book Tour, Wearing Thigh-High Balenciaga Boots via @TMZ https://t.co/PYxzRbn5R0 not a good look, at all pic.twitter.com/I1w0htls8z

— Sheila Whisman (@SheilaWhisman1) December 20, 2018

I’d have thought Michelle Obama wouldn’t succumb to the American peer pressure of wearing horrific boots.

But no. Her too. https://t.co/h6aaWA6HDm

— Molasses (@ChendGolden) December 20, 2018

The current first lady has also drawn attention for her footwear. Last year, Melania Trump’s press office slammed the media for focusing on her high heel shoes as she boarded Air Force One to head to Texas to visit areas damaged by Hurricane Harvey.

In a headline, The Mirror called the stiletto-style shoes the “most inappropriate clothes imaginable.”

Stephanie Grisham, Trump’s communications director, said in a statement to CNN at the time, “It’s sad that we have an active and ongoing natural disaster in Texas, and people are worried about her shoes.”

Grisham also knocked the press for another instance of homing in on what Trump was sporting on her feet in a CNN op-ed last week, writing, “When Mrs. Trump invited children from a local Boys and Girls club to help plant vegetables in the White House garden, the media chose to focus on the cost of her shirt and the fact that her shoes were clean.”