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2019 - Drew Henderson's Only registered users can see links on this board! Get registred or enter the forums! | barbershop, No Cuts No Glory, is representative of Chicago's de facto meeting places. Within the barbershop, sports, politics and more are debated. Preparations for celebrations are made. And, most important, bonds are forged across Only registered users can see links on this board! Get registred or enter the forums! | the community.
Henderson and his shop are also inspiration for the latest Chicago-specific Air Force 1, the AF-1 ALL FOR 1 – CHICAGO. The shoe incorporates a series of graphic and material elements that celebrate the barbershop, from a specially Only registered users can see links on this board! Get registred or enter the forums! | created tongue tag that transitions Chicago's skyline into the silhouette of a comb, to aglets based on traditional barber poles (but with an added Chicago-flag twist). On the heel, a pony-hair tab reminds of the daily hair cuts in the shop, while an inner graphic of two hands celebrates unity. Creative tweaks to the AF1 design have also been made Only registered users can see links on this board! Get registred or enter the forums! | specifically for barber shop use:Rolled edges make it easier for hair to be removed (there’s no exposed seams to get stuck on)Wax laces ensure that fallen hair doesn’t get trapped A specially designed ice-rubber sole features a black/white diamond Only registered users can see links on this board! Get registred or enter the forums! | pattern in an ode to classic barbershop flooring The AF-1 ALL FOR 1 – CHICAGO releases December 7 on nike.com and at select retailers in Chicago. 2019 - The end of the year marks Ekiden Season, highlighted by thousands of high school, university Only registered users can see links on this board! Get registred or enter the forums! | and pro teams competing in intranational road-racing relays. The country’s most-watched annual sporting event starts in Only registered users can see links on this board! Get registred or enter the forums! | October and lasts through the new year. The event’s massive fandom serves as the colorway inspiration for the Ekiden Zoom Pack, featuring five members of the Zoom family.
The colorways are pulled from the scaled teals of Japanese Only registered users can see links on this board! Get registred or enter the forums! | bullet trains, highlighting a nation on the move during the relay exchanges of the race, and following its path toward this summer’s premier sporting event in 2020.2019 - Converse has teamed up with PLEASURES, an LA-based brand known for Only registered users can see links on this board! Get registred or enter the forums! | irreverent graphics, to introduce a new side of the Converse Pro Leather. The collection emphasizes the silhouette as a vehicle for print, with black and white graphics protected by an outer transparent layer. Using Tyvek as the base layer, the graphics have a crinkled aesthetic that wears down over time, so each silhouette boasts its own unique, broken-in look.
“It’ Only registered users can see links on this board! Get registred or enter the forums! | s a classic shoe and few have really tapped it creatively, so we’re excited to add the PLEASURES design aesthetic to the DNA of Converse, giving our fans their own version of the silhouette, while attracting some new ones along the Only registered users can see links on this board! Get registred or enter the forums! | way,” says Alex James, PLEASURES co-founder.
The Converse x PLEASURES Pro Leather will be available on converse.com and global retail partners November 22.
The Ekiden Zoom Pack will be released on December 3 in Japan and January 2 globally.
"“ Only registered users can see links on this board! Get registred or enter the forums! | It means so much to me to be involved with the production of a shoe that represents some of the most important things in my life: Chicago, the barbershop and the community. It is an honor to shine a spotlight on the city, industry and community that made me who I am and motivate me every day. I share this with all of them,” says Henderson. |
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