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Chances are the “Chlorophyll” Nike SB Air Trainer 1 won’t land on any year-end recaps of best releases. Understandable, considering the decades-old model doesn’t align with today’s footwear tastes. But in terms of historical relevance, few sneakers better capture Nike’s early DNA as industry leaders, problem-solvers, and purveyors of cool. The Nike Air Trainer 1 […]
If a sneaker doesn’t resell for more than its original retail price, does it even matter? Don’t answer that question. Of course that’s not the sole way to judge a piece of footwear these days, but it often feels like it. The resale market is a multi-billion-dollar industry and sneakers are often available on the […]
With Black Friday and Cyber Monday in the books, it’s officially holiday shopping season. For anyone who has a sneakerhead on their list, these might be some of the pairs they have their eyes on. New colorways of retro Air Jordans, Yeezy restocks, and Nike SB collabs are all up for grabs this week. Things kick […]
A Reebok collaboration with a popular internet series, Adidas collab celebrating a superhero’s new video game, and a Nike collab with one of streetwear’s most popular brands at the moment highlight this week of sneaker releases. The drops kicks off on Wednesday morning with the CPFM x Nike Dunk Low dropping exclusively via the brand’s web store. On Thursday, […]
“By fah, this is the dumbest, and weirdest, most off the wall thing we’ve done.” That’s how Concepts creative director Deon Point describes the storied boutique’s latest Nike SB collaboration, a Dunk High nicknamed the “Turdunken.” But how is a sneaker, whose inception Point credits to a, “combination of Spungie’s brain, Nike SB dinners, and Modelos,” […]
When Nike quietly purchased the Portland, Oregon-based skateboarding sneaker start-up Savier in 2001, the entire sneaker industry was wading in a massive sea of change that few predicted. Launched independently in the fall of 2000, Savier’s role in skateboarding footwear’s canon is a story about design and marketing, and even folklore, that’s steeped in the hazy […]
It’s impossible to neatly pack the summer of 2020 into a clean, coherent lede sentence, so let’s just move on to the meat of this topic. This is a sneaker site, and summer’s nearly over, so what was the sneaker of the summer this year? Every year when we put together this story, there’s a […]
The Complex Sneakers Podcast is co-hosted by Joe La Puma, Brendan Dunne and Matt Welty. This week the guys host Concepts’ Creative Director, Deon Point. He started as a store manager in Boston in 2005 and went on to help shape the shop into one of the most respected retailers in the country. After a […]
The Complex Sneakers Podcast is co-hosted by Joe La Puma, Brendan Dunne and Matt Welty. This week they have on the legendary jeweler Ben Baller who started his lengthy career in the music industry before becoming an early name on the streetwear scene. In this interview, Baller talks about sneaker shopping with Missy Elliott in […]
There’s a ton of excitement around Nike SB’s new collaboration with the Grateful Dead. A follow-up of sorts to the Ben & Jerry’s “Chunky Dunky,” this is the next pop culture-driven sneaker in the Nike SB line that transcends the usual consumer and reaches a whole new community. This time, it could be one of the […]
