Paris Hilton took one of Coachella’s quickly emerging shoe trends and made it feel unmistakably hers.
For day one of the 2026 Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival on Friday in Indio, Calif., Hilton wore Demonia’s Camel-300 thigh-high platform boots in black stretch vegan leather, a lace-up pair with a chunky heel, heavy front platform and full-length side zip. The style retails for $133.
Paris Hilton wearing Demonia Rude Awakening platform boots during Day 1 of Coachella 2026 on Friday night.
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Hilton’s pair landed far outside the cleaner black boots already circulating across the festival on Friday. Hilton’s thigh-highs featured a rounded toe, a thick platform and a wide block heel. Front lacing extended nearly the full height of the pair, while a close calf fit and a slight release above the knee gave them a taller, more exaggerated shape than the black boots other attendees wore Friday.
A closer look at Paris Hilton’s Y2K-coded Demonia platform boots.
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The rest of the outfit stayed locked into Hilton’s own visual history. Styled by Joey Thao, she wore a custom upcycled Von Dutch top and skirt by Sew Bardi, cut from multicolored logo pieces and belted low at the waist with a pink crystal buckle. She also carried the I.Am.Gia x Von Dutch bowling bag.
Hadia Ghaleb sunglasses, stacked jewelry from En Route and Laser Kitten, a rhinestone choker and black fingerless gloves kept the look in the same loud, high-gloss register. The boots gave it a base that felt less desert-boho than clubby, logo-heavy and deliberately early-2000s.
Paris Hilton at Coachella
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That also set Hilton apart from the cleaner black-boot lane already visible across day one. Alix Earle wore Bared Footwear’s harness-trimmed Hillstar knee-highs to YouTube’s Backstage Studio, while Kendall Jenner chose Ann Demeulemeester’s pared-back Bente boots at 818 Outpost. Both pairs stayed substantial, but neither pushed as high, as thick or as overtly Y2K as Hilton’s Demonia platforms.
Demonia Rude Awakening Thigh-High Black Platform Boots. Retail price as of writing: $133.
Demonia
Coachella weekend one has already produced a strong run of sturdy footwear, from cowboy boots to moto shapes to black knee-high styles that feel better suited to festival ground than flimsier warm-weather options. Hilton’s version fit that broader shift, but in a form only she was likely to choose. Instead of smoothing the trend out, she pushed it back toward the platform-heavy, Von Dutch-era excess that made her one of the defining style references of the 2000s. Hilton returned to the desert the next day for Neon Carnival and to host her own event for her skincare brand, Parívie.
