Today our Retro Super Trainer comes all the way from the 80’s (omg vintage) with Ellesse’s reissued basketball boots The Assist 1. Originally a intended as a basketball boot, The Assist 1 sneaker was, like many an empty swimming pool and public handrail across the US taken over by a…
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Tags: 80s, Ellesse, menswear, Retro Super Trainer Week, Skateboarding, streetwear, vintage
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So we’re feeling trainers, since our trip to Bread & Butter in Berlin a couple of weeks back. There’s something very HASHTAG-NOW about a chunky running sneaker, and it;s a great antidote to OTT-heritage £440-a-pair leather boots that take 2 months to break in, and £5 Brick Lane plimsolls [these…
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Tags: '90s, boots, fila, hiking, retro, sneakers, trailblazer, trainers
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When we got a look at the latest winter collection from Adidas Originals recently, we saw some rather lovely things. While it’s a little more toned-down than our Fashion Director’s fave (Jeremy Scott, who else?), it’s full of wintry sportswear with a twist – that twist coming from Japanese streetwear…
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Tags: adidas, b. snowboards, kazuki, kuraishi, originals, skiwear, winter
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Continuing examining London footwear designers, in our weeklong accessory special we talk to women’s shoe designer Tracey Neuls. Tracey has recently migrated East, opening a new store on Redchurch St. Neuls has also collaborated with graphic designers LEGUN to create a new line of shoes to accompany her Tracey Neuls…
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Tags: Chelsea boot, east london, graphic designers, LEGUN, minimal silhouettes, Tracey Neuls
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It’s the third day of talking with London’s most coveted accessory designers and today our obsessions turn to footwear. Marc Hare, menswear shoe designer and master orchestrator of love affairs below the ankle talks Planet Notion through the details and inner workings of his gorgeous leather creations.
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Tags: 80s, christmas!, Hari Kiri, Mr Hare, Orange Vonneguts, Orwell Struzzos, Rude Boy, south london
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There was once a period when ethical fashion rarely struck us between the eyes with desire and when it occasionally did, the highly covetable pieces were highly overpriced. Thankfully those are times of yore with the likes of Esprit, Christopher Raeburn and Ada Zanditon, to name but…
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Tags: ada zanditon, ASOS, Christopher Raeburn, Dover Street Market, Esprit, france, Harvey Nichols, Okini, trainers, Twins For Peace
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The reverence of Asics’ innovative new styles render all those painful memories surrounding the discomfort and dowdiness of school P.E trainers defunct. Bridging the gap between fashion and sportswear trainers, Asics presents each trainer with an individual appeal through unique silhouettes and, unsurprisingly, we cannot get enough of them.
The…
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Tags: Aaron, Asics, Asics Gel, Biku, Christmas list, Gel Saga II, GEL-Lyte III, GT II, trainers
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That tantalisingly menacing fashion giant ASOS has given us another reason to count down the days until sunlight survives past four o’clock in the afternoon and for when we can leave the house chapped-lips free wearing less than five layers of turtlenecks.
Their bolshie Neo Circuit collection, in all its…
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Tags: ASOS, blocking, hi-tops, Neon, perspex heels, playsuits, sports, ss12, Stripes, tees, zips
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Want to inject some wildly exciting pizazz into your Autumn/Winter wardrobes? Then look no further than one of Britain’s leading fashion brands - ye ole faithful Gio-Goi. For AW11 the brand offers a new more premium line-Contraband, which is inspired by the London scene to create this flawlessly dishevelled dynamic.
For the…
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Tags: gio goi, Gloves, Printed Tee, Scarf, trench, winter
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French brand Palladium have come a long way since their years of layering canvas bands underneath vulcanized rubber to make tyres for the fledging aviation industry in the 1920s.
Since honing their footwear expertise for the past sixty years after aircraft manufacturing and the demand for tires decreased, Palladium…
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Tags: espadrille foxing, Liberty, Palladium, trainers
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