Got Her: Strolling Mott Street with her man on the most gorgeous fall afternoon.
Stalked Her: A denim dress done right always catches our eye. Plus her cute knit hat’s the kind of thing you need to properly transition from one season to the next.
Shot Her: It’s technically Fashion Week somewhere, so bring on the models. Her little red bag matched her nails (and her cell phone case!) and we never fail to fall in love with sneakers paired with little dresses (again, when done right).
She Said: “I’m all about comfort.”
We Say: So says every model, and yet all of you always look perfect (not to generalize or anything).
Mark and Samantha Ronson have obviously caught the design bug from their sister Charlotte (and maybe Sam’s getting ideas from Lindsay?), as both have entered the fashion game in the footwear division. First we heard about Sam’s high-tops for Supra. They’re tough and cool in black leather with a gold stripe, and are now available at Factory 413.
Now, WWD has reported that Mark is designing for Gucci’s planned traveling sneaker pop-up store. It’ll be coming our way this October, with the first location in SoHo, then jetting away to Miami Beach, London, Paris and Tokyo, among others. For each location, he’ll be designing a different unisex shoe.
We’ve become frequent visitors to Need Supply Co. this summer, and we’ve just spotted the cutest pair of sneakers.
I love high top sneakers, but often when I see a pair I like, they’re kind of puffy, for lack of a better word, and I feel like they’re overwhelming my tiny feet. So the Jackie, made by Zuriick, calls out to me with with its sporty sleekness.
Have you made plans for the Fourth of July yet? We hope you’re going to be catching some awesome fireworks or grilling out at a sweet barbecue. The American patriotic spirit has even gone global, thanks to Obama-mania.
The latest in the ever-growing category of Obama-inspired fashion (see: Rodarte for Sonia Rykiel) comes from Italian shoemaker Cesare Paciotti - an Obama Tennis Shoe. It’s very simple: a white sneaker emblazoned with the good ol’ stars and stripes.
We don’t mean to be anglophiles, but in the past if we thought about wrapping a flag around our bodies, we’d usually choose the Union Jack.
But now we’re thinking twice about it thanks to Cesare’s cool American look. While the president served as inspiration, the flag detail pretty much embraces the whole country.
So come the Fourth, let’s wave—and wear—our flags proudly.
There are some online rumblings about the TMZ video, at left.
In it, Kanye claims to be wearing Louis Vuitton sneakers, and for whatever reason, viewers have decided that these are the Louis Vuitton shoes Kanye is supposed to have collaborated on some months ago (he does appear to say something like “these aren’t coming out til June” while walking away from the creepy paparazzo, but we don’t hear him clearly say that they’re the exact shoes he designed… just saying.)
Either way, it’s fun that he answers “clothes” when asked what his plans for 2009 are. Though if those all-white sneakers really are the fruits of his first design efforts, well, we hope he does land a good internship soon.
Puma turns 60 this year, and they’re making sure nobody forgets.
In addition to releasing a celebratory line of shoes, they’re hosting a string of events nationwide (parties, shopping events, etc), including concerts with Chester French, Lady Gaga, The Bravery and more (full concert schedule after the jump.)
Best part? All the concerts are free and open to the public, just make sure to pick up tickets at Puma stores in participating cities starting… today!
Over the weekend, Reebok opened a pop-up store, called Flash, at 169 Bowery.
The store exists for just one month, and they’ll rotate limited-edition kicks and clothes each week, which will surely make it a frequent stop on the way to L’asso.
All the merchandise is supposed to be “never before seen”, but we think they’ll still squeeze in the Monopoly sneakers they created a couple months ago - which we’ve yet to see in person - between the dozens of limited-edition designs the company consistently cranks out.
We suggest checking out the store before December 15 - that’s the day it closes and the Bowery address returns to its, well, Boweryness.
Keds were our sneaker of choice in grade school, but they haven’t been since - and we’re sure we’re not alone in this.
But have you seen the sneakers they had some GenArt kids design?
At left, is the limited-edition design by artist Anne Faith Nichols, of British Columbia. They’re blue, there’s a bird, they’re $60 and they even come in half sizes - in short, they’re kind of perfect for jeans on the weekends and printed mini-dresses for Spring.
Plus, wearing them around would be a little like time traveling - and who didn’t want to do that in sixth grade?
I have a pair of Chucks that I adore. They cost me $80 and I got them at a vintage shop after a 12-hour work day assisting a photographer. The $100 bill he handed me lasted for a whopping six hours before I pulled these beautiful black, high top Converse sneakers onto my feet. I love them, but they’re kind of bothering me. I feel like they’re not really mine.
I mean yes, I paid for them from my hard work, but these shoes are worn in, deliciously and beautifully beat up and special, not through my own hard wearing, but through somebody else’s. This might sound crazy, but I feel like I’ve stolen someone else’s coolness.
The truth is, I wouldn’t have bought them if they’d been brand new. Their discoloration and wilted state were part of their appeal, all thanks to the street pounding of their first owner, the length of their life (and my mother’s would-be reaction) be damned.
I’m not sure if this has to do with the fact that they’re shoes (insert proverb here) or the fact that I receive so many compliments on them whenever I wear them (my standard thought: “They’re not really mine!”), but I just feel like a phony wearing Converses I didn’t beat up myself.
Have you ever experienced guilt at not having worn in your vintage shoes? Or is my existential shoe dilemma totally unfounded?
One the one hand, they’re beautiful. Black and white embroidery on leather is not something we would have previously considered for casual footwear, but somehow, it works, and we want it to work with gray jeans and worn sweaters right now.
On the other hand, they’re sneakers, and they’re priced between $240 and $400, which almost makes them criminal if not dangerously fun.
The idea of wearing couture (we are using that term so loosely, yes) sneakers is kind of layered - we think it might feel fun, funny, but maybe a little tool-ish, too (we are using that term so childishly, yes.) Because really, couture sneakers? Has the high/low really brought us kicks designed with 19th Century French baroque embroidery and gilded bullfighter-inspired paisley prints to wear while shopping for milk?
We’re not usually ones to get in the way of something potentially ridiculous for people to wear (we’ve been trying to figure out how to DIY the Giles Pac-Man heads all weekend!), but we’re not sure even we can wrap our heads around sneakers in the mid-hundreds.
Everybody was pretty upset last week when Hasbro finally shut down Scrabulous, so it looks like they’ve found a way for everybody to kiss and make up -
They’ve teamed up with Reebok to create a line of shoes based on Monopoly, the first wave of which comes out later this month, retailing between $75 and $85.
We appreciate the funny collaboration, and really do have fond memories of our brother getting us to set up the entire game of Monopoly when we were kids, then turning the entire board over and declaring “Game Over!” before it had even begun, but could we please get a little RIP Scrabulous and get some kicks that spell out funny words in Scrabble tiles, too?
We’re predicting cute ballet flats and not-so-high stilettos - kind of like the look for less blisters.
The two are collaborating in both design and marketing but New Balance is slated to provide the materials while Nine West brings their good looks.
As long as this doesn’t mean a batch of sneaker wedges or performance peep toes, we’re all for cute shoes that feel good - so long as Nine West stays away from knock-offs.
—KYLE HAYES
Walking down Fifth this weekend I saw not one, not two, but three different girls dressed in a variety of outfits accompanied by sneaker wedges.
Yes, sneaker wedges.
Each time I saw a pair walk by, I stopped and watched them stomp past me and thought to myself, “Why?”
Sure, they’re a combination of the most comfortable shoe out there with one of the cutest, but let’s face it, it’s a high-heeled sneaker, which is a little like slapping a heel onto an Ugg and calling it evening wear.
They could be cute underneath a pair of wide-leg jeans, but only because you wouldn’t see the entire shoe. This is literally the only instance we can think of.
We just plain don’t get this one - Are they meant for Posh Spice-wannabes in Phys Ed? Or are rubber triangles under otherwise normal sneakers the new Croc? As in, something hideous that we better get used to seeing around anyway?
Margherita Missoni and Damon Dash are working together to create a new line of sneakers for ProKeds to benefit Orphanaid Africa.
The line will consist of six pairs of sneaks covered in collages of Africa-inspired prints (we’d kill for shoes with a tiger on them), and will be sold at Barneys and Colette.
No word yet on a launch-date, but we’re willing to bet the event will merit an in-store visit from Damon himself - but will Margherita fly back from her new home in Paris for an appearance on Fifth?
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