Kenneth Cole’s shoe empire just got a whole lot bigger.
On Thursday, the much-billboarded designer will team with Knicks broadcaster and “Today” show correspondent Jill Martin to break the Guinness Record for World’s Largest High Heel Replica Shoe Commercially Available.
Standing 73 inches tall and 77 inches long, the shoe is an exact replica of Cole’s “Otto” bootie ($225).
“This was our national ad shoe this season, so we figured we’d make an even bigger statement about it,” Cole tells The Post.
The Otto stomps on the former record, set in 1996 by Edmund Kryza of Poland, whose pump measured a mere 44 inches high and 72 inches long.
The path to greatness began two months ago when Martin, 38, wrote herself a bucket list of all the things she hoped to accomplish, including “break a world record.”
“I’m not the tallest, I’m not the shortest, I don’t have the longest tongue or hair,” Martin says of her search to find the perfect record to break. But there was one thing she did have — a love for shoes.
Martin began calling designers who might team with her for the challenge, and was ecstatic to learn that “quirky and fun” Cole was game.
“Footwear in and of itself might be one of the most difficult products to bring to market because it’s not just about designing,” Cole says. “It’s about engineering and it’s about sculpting, and ultimately it has to be a perfect proportion in order for it to fit and hold the weight of its inhabiter. And then to take it and change its scale is an even greater feat.”
He and Martin solicited the help of Izquierdo Studio — a specialty prop and costume company for theater and film sets — to construct the big boot, which is made from 6,000 square feet of calfskin and hand-cut foam and weighs nearly 150 pounds.
The buckle was created with a 3-D printer, and the zipper is fully functional.
“I’ve never had kids, but I feel like I just had one,” Martin confessed upon seeing the finished product. “It was stressful, exhilarating, random. It was a real labor of love.”
Beginning Friday, the sculpture will be on public display at Lord & Taylor’s flagship location on their newly renovated shoe floor.
From 10 a.m. Thursday to 6 p.m. Friday, a portion of the sales proceeds from the regular-size “Otto” heels on kennethcole.com will go to NYC charity Garden of Dreams Foundation.
So what’s on Cole’s bucket list?
“Making the other half of the pair.”