Bringing colour to your running, the adidas Energy BOOST adds new bold shades for Autumn Winter! Following on from their record breaking launch as the fastest selling debut footwear release, adidas have added new colours to their Energy BOOST range for Autumn Winter 2013. The original Energy BOOST launched in February this year [...]
Summer is finally here and so it’s time to get out the sneakers and look forward to a long hot dusty summer – well we can hope anyway. And if you take a look down at your feet and have that sinking feeling as you see your big toes poking out it’s time to treat [...]
Giant pandas Ri Ri and Shin Shin are the inspiration for a limited-edition collaboration between Japanese lifestyle brand Onitsuka Tiger and Tokyo‘s famed Mita Sneakers store. The bamboo-eating carnivores, whose names emphasis vitality and innocence, are national icons in Japan. To re-imagine Onitsuka Tiger’s classic FABRE BL-L basketball shoe, Mita looked to home to Ri Ri [...]
Let’s face it – there’s nothing more comfortable than trainers when you’ve got a fun filled (or work filled) day ahead of you. And SUPRA have just launched this range they are billing as the perfect day trainer. What better to do your feet a favour this summer? The OWEN is a super [...]
This year, adidas and Yohji Yamamoto celebrate ten years of Y-3, the iconic collaboration combining adidas’ sports technology and Yohji Yamamoto’s style aesthetic. At the foreguard of sports fashion when it was launched in 2003, the brand has led a wave of technical meets high fashion ever since. As part of its ten year anniversary [...]
With a collection inspired by medieval knights, the PUMA partnership with iconic British design house Alexander McQueen continues its rampage through the sports fashion battlefield this Autumn Winter. Always ambitious, the Puma McQueen trainer collection for AW12 fights hard for our devotion. And the theme, which is synonymous with McQueen, takes its cues from medieval warfare [...]
Flying out of Paris’s Colette as we speak, are the newly launched extreme limited edition of Missoni x Converse shoes created in amazing deadstock fabric from the Missoni Archive. The Converse x Missoni archive project of Converse Pro Leather high tops and Auckland Racer shoes mark the sixth season of the collaboration between the [...]
After six years producing their menswear line, Californian trainer brand SUPRA launched their first range for women this summer. Filling a fashion gap in the womens trainer market by aiming the shoes at fashion forward sneaker lovers, it’s great news that the iconic Supra silhouettes will be reproduced in women’s sizes. Plus they are especially [...]
Space Diver, the latest hi-top from adidas, has a real retro classic look about it. It’s a fashionable take on a basketball shoe and is being launched in conjunction with Foot Locker. To celebrate the launch they’ve just released a rather gob-smacking video starring none other than Snoop Lion (formerly known as Snoop Dog) and [...]
adidas reveals the launch of the adiZero Primeknit, its first one-piece upper performance running shoe, using a new seamless engineering technology. Knitted from the red and white adidas Olympic colours, a limited run of 2,012 individually numbered pairs will be available to buy for a limited time only. Using the latest design tools with a [...]
We’re excited about the launch of the Footpatrol for Converse Pro Leather collection – the latest Converse First String collaboration. From their initiation into the sneaker brotherhood in 2002, Footpatrol have gained credibility as a sure fire source for exclusive, underground sneaker launches. Today the store retains its position as one of the country’s premiere sneaker retailers. [...]
Fashion Article by Daniel Lennard PONY & Ricky Powell Capsule Collection Summer ’12 Ricky Powell has given us some of the images that have defined the world of rap and hip-hop. He famously blagged himself onto the Raising Hell Tour Bus back in 1985 with up and coming hip hop acts The Beastie Boys and Run-DMC. [...]
Hussein Chalayan is flying off the blocks with his latest sports fashion trainers for PUMA. The Turkish designer who became creative director for the sports fashion label some three years ago. And we’re seeing his narrative design approach to the PUMA by Hussein Chalayan collection resulting in a range of amazing luxury sports fashion styles that [...]
Footlocker have announced their new in-store collections for Spring this year and they’ve been very busy collaborating with the top brands to come up with some exclusive new trainers in colours ready for the sunnier seasons. Neutral and perfect for this season, the formula is a mono palette of silvery-grey, black and white with splashes of brights on vintage shoes across [...]
The most famous thing about French tennis shoe brand Spring Court is the really rather impressive fact that John Lennon got married in a pair! Now for Spring Summer 12, they collaborate with Still Good for a range for Colette. From their launch back in 1936, Spring Court revolutionised tennis with their natural ventilation and [...]
If you’re a sneakerhead you’ll no doubt go all dewy eyed at the news of this new PUMA release. The secretive organisation otherwise known as The PUMA Shadow Society have announced that the third and final drop of their series will be the classic GTX States. This now classic suede sneak has been reinvented [...]
A wishlist of super good looking trainers, classy not kooky, sleek black and stand out would get you these Deep Black high top trainers – absolute beauties from M by Monderer. The range is all black leather, stitched and eyes to the n-th degree to give a look that is pure understated darkness. These are great [...]
Thursday 15th December sees the launch of PONY’s sneaker collaboration with New York designers Dee & Ricky, at Paris’s best known fashion boutique, Colette. If you like your sneakers off beat, bright and fancy free this is a new collaboration for you. Dee & Ricky are the well known hyperactive New York fashion designer twins. [...]
If trainers were superheroes, this new limited edition range by Ellesse would be the ultimate fashion superhero gang. This autumn the eighties trainer brand has teamed up with five of the ultimate European fashion retailers to create the Ellesse Fab Five and bring a new look to their classic styles. Offering a different style to each [...]
This is an intriguing collaboration if ever we stumbled across one mixing fast French cars with fast Manchester fashion. The first fashion collaboration for Citroen, they have teamed up with the iconic Gio-Goi for a trainer collaboration for casual fans, urban masqueraders and trainer connoisseurs. The result is the DS3 Racing Shoe – a high [...]
This season we are loving the new collectable sneaker from Pierre Hardy pays tribute to the dark and hybrid disco of the 80’s. The allover black sneaker is punctuated by 3D metallic streaks evoking 80s videos somewhere between futuristic disco and cyber punk. The unisex high top with laces and velcro ankle straps has a [...]
The latest in the line of collaborations from the Japanese creators of Hello Kitty see’s Italian designer Gio Forbice’s FORFEX scattering mini Sanrio characters over his famous Space Boot. Making an appearance on the white backdrop are Hello Kitty, My Melody, Baditz Maru and KerokKeroKeroppi. The FORFEX universe created for the Sanrio 50th anniversary also [...]
The Summer Solstice is upon us and to celebrate the longest day of the year, the hordes will be descending on Stonehenge and other spiritual sites to watch the sunrise. In their own form of sungazing, Los Angeles based trainer brand SUPRA twist the words of the great English bard to chant, “the eye of man hath [...]
Ian Brown – for those of a certain age and disposition - continues to be an indie god, beating pretenders like Liam Gallagher, Bobby Gillespie and that guy from the Verve hands down. Now Japanese designer and long term friend, Kazuki Kuraishi, has come up with the Ian Brown ObyO KZK for adidas Originals and the [...]
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