blazers

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blazers, blazers, blazers... they are different to most other high tops, defined by their rigid upright heel patch. at first they may look uncomfortable to wear, if you weren't wearing high enough socks they could rub against the back of your heel. i would say this would probably be true for the cream coloured, pink eyelet panel with maroon laces blazers that i have(pic. 3). i have actually never worn this pair, i paid a stupid AUD$200 for them and decided after i got them that they were too horrendously coloured to pair with any piece of clothing. however my black ones, with the bright yellow laces and white swoosh are one of my staple shoes. i often wear them sockless, and because of their parachute material it gives the shoe alot of flexibility - easy for dancing in! i got these black blazers for only AUD$80, i managed to get them in the biggest kid size from foot locker in perth so they were way cheaper:D 


the second pic features the nike blazer hi electrolime, they came out in december last year and i think has the sickest colourway for a blazer. i love the black border detail above the heel, on the midsole. really cool, never seen these in any store though. i can't say blazers have the most appealing structure or look about them but if nike were to come out with more colourways like the electrolime i would definitely be interested in seeking more out...

time to give air

spizikes yo!

i lusted after these shoes for a long, long time. i saw them first on a youtube clip of damon dash's sneaker collection(show me your sneaker collection vol. 12). i had full faith that they were deadstock -  unattainable. then i went to the foot locker in munich one saturday, i saw them on display for 140 euros. i thought i could pull out money and get them the next day, not knowing that everything in munich is closed on a sunday. i was due to be in berlin on monday. so, i had 2 options : 


a) catch a 39 euro, 9 hour bus to berlin leaving at 9.45am or
b) pay 115 euros for a train leaving at 2pm


obvs the first option was the way to go, HOWEVER.. foot locker only opened at 10am. so i had to pay about 70 euros extra to go by train just so i could buy my first pair of jordans ever! i managed to hustle the price of the shoes down to 127 euros though:D i love everything about these sneakers, they are my most bad ass pair. the varsity colourway is tasty as fuck, the shoes are a re-release from 1985, back when the campaign featured michael jordan and mars blackman(spike lee). do you know do you know do you know? air jordans air jordans air jordans!

i just like sneaker

a shoe within a shoe

i saw these adidas stan smiths yesterday evening. yes what you see at first is a fairly nondescript black high top. unzip it and BOOM it's a low top. they share the same laces so all you have to do is unzip, untie the lace of the high top and re-tie it to the low top. both shoes however are pretty average for stan smiths, though i think the concept kills it, and it'd be awesome to see better designed shoes-within-shoes!

so many colour

you may have noticed by now that i like alot of bright colours on shoes, palettes that stand out but aren't too garish. my sister got me these onitsuka tigers that were a collaboration with japanese designer tokidoki. the shoe is very animated, the cartoon characters spanning the sole, lining and exterior of the shoe. pretty nuts. you can't wear these too often if you don't want to get the sole of the shoe dirty - underneath the clear rubber sole is some more animation. this designer obviously went balls to the wall with this line but i think they are awesome to look at and definitely a pair to keep on the rack and not on your feet! the shoes hail from berlin, where my sister got them at one the many sneaker stores there.

the second pair are, in contrast, my overworn ZLX adidas. i died when i noticed the delicious colourway on the shoe. apparently they're a guys' model as these a boy's size 7 and they didn't have any smaller, though i can't see many males rocking these without getting cussed out. i love this pair to death but they are so dirty and i can't clean the mesh on the toe box! i've tried drid maize, a cloth and water.. any suggestions let me know!

adidas..gives you wings

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this right here is sex in a shoe. these jeremy scott-adidas-pegasus-incredible-creations by the hand of god are my new holy grail of shoes. the swarovski encrusted and multicoloured mindfuck models are dropping sometime this year(spring 2010), if not out already. talk about the offspring of high fashion mixed with street culture, these shoes are the BOMB DIGGITY. some of the models come with wings on either side of each shoes, giving you a total of FOUR WINGS on your feet!! close your jaws now, i've seen a pair of the black ones in sole what in gardens last year, but they were outrageously overpriced. i will continue to eat, sleep, drink and generally exist but these shoes will be housed in the back of my mind until i obtain them.

sneaker lit 101

my first sneaker book was sneakerfreaker the book, a compilation of all their mags from 2002-2005. i think the magazine in itself offers really interesting articles about errrthing sneaker related, and it features a few female writers too. pretty much have gone through this book a few times from cover to cover. 'art and sole' is my second favourite sneaker read, more of a lookbook of the craziest styles of sneakers, mostly customised - all delicious:) i LUST for the pair in the 3rd pic above. nike vandals customised by an artist called claw money, i would murder a good friend for a pair of these, for real. 'where'd you get those' by bobbito garcia is more about the history of the sneaker craze, from its origins of basketball and hip hop. he's also interviewed in the sneaker documentary 'just for kicks' which incidentally kicked off my whole sneaker passion - this guy knows his shit.

vandalism

these are my peppermint green nike vandals. i got them for my 21st birthday present last year from solid perth mates:) reallllly stoked to have gotten these, i saw them at the mt lawley highs and lows store in perth on my birthday, and they were super expensive - $250. that night my friends(you know who you are!) happened to get me a sneaker voucher for the same store. i went back the next week to get them, thus only paying a stick's worth for it! ($25). i love everything about the colourway of this shoe, the peppermint green is fresh as fuck paired with the white. the straps look great, but i took them off because with wraparound velcro straps, they move too much when you walk so it doesn't always stay around the outside of the shoe and you need to pull them out of the shoe. these are a women's model, and it was awesome getting a shoe that fit and still looked really cool though they aren't made for boys. personally i don't think there's enough cool girl kicks out there, and it's frustrating always buying in boys' sizes. sneaker companies defs need to vamp up their women's collection...

rock steady

these dunks have been my travelling shoes for the past 4 months. i've literally walked errrrwhere in these shoes! they're really sturdy but obviously have still taken a beating from being overworn. they're an athletics east x nike collaboration, and were my first pair of hi dunks ever. when they were much cleaner, the print kind of looked like a starry night.. i tried lacing them batman style with wings, but they came out lattice laced and i think i much prefer it that way. only problem is it's a bitch to tighten the laces! i got these from the nike store at the curve, though the current stock they have is pretty average. i don't normally go for black on black shoes but i think these are pretty delicious:)

nike air troupes

so i've just come back from backpacking around europe for four months. that place has ALOT of really cool sneakers. when i was in amsterdam i made friends with some fellow german sneakerheads whose house i stayed at in bonn(near cologne - home of haribo candy and beethoven!). they told me there was a sneaker outlet nearby that has super cheap stuff. i had my eye on these nike air troupes already when i was in cologne, i saw them in a shop on sale for 52 euros. i saw the same pair in this sneaker outlet for only 30 euros and was soooo overjoyed.

this outlet is pretty cool, but are fairly limited in sizes and you have to search through alot of crap to get to the good stuff. but it's really fun going through all the stacks of shoeboxes that they have - each box has a different pair of sneakers:D these air troupes are pretty crazy, and i think the eyelet at the back of the heel is being used more and more by nike. love love love this pair, i was pretty obsessed with the galaxy print and was fucking stoked to find the print on a sneaker! the laces they came with were black but i changed them to to purple to match the collar. if you are ever in germany, hit up römerstr. 49 in 53111 bonn.

cheap cheap kl kicks

i picked up these 2 pairs from a super cheap adidas sale in KL 2 years ago. we had to wait in line for 2 hours, the queue was ages and they were only letting 20 people in at a time. the americana 76ers pair are one of my favourite, the colourway makes them real easy to wear with anything, and they're super comfortable. i think it's the adidas basketball line and this pair is for the philadelphia 76ers. the bottom of the soles have 7ers on one side and 6 ers on the other but i can't photograph it - way too filthy!

i love the stan smiths, and how they don't have the stripes on them but are still very adidas. i think the geometric shapes are real cute but i think they're a pretty bi-sex shoe? they're a bit too big, so my guy friends have worn them more than i have..

i think each pair was only rm 120 each= AUD 41 = EUR 29