On Sale at eLuxury.com: Dior Homme Radioactive Denim
These pants are too radioactive… LMAO
No, you are not ready for this. If you plan on getting these $600 pair of jeans (are they really jeans?) please get some smooth sneakers. No light bright silver or gold Converse’s that you can get from either Converse.com or at Zappos.com (if you can find them cause they came out last season)
I’m actually trying to figure out what sneakers the model is wearing cause that works really well.
Anyway, they still got a few sizes left IF YOUR LOOKING FOR SOMETHING DIFFERENT. And believe me, this is something different.
Converse Chucks x Purcells: Do A Little Something Together
Another great sneaker related post from the bloggers at Luxist.com. I never EVER heard of Purcells put apparently its because I have no class lol. Apparently the original news came from a High Snobriety network site called Selectism.
Now I did a search on the site for them and I couldn’t find them at all and it says that they should start shipping worldwide and at a store near you. The post on Selectism was made on May 2nd so they have to be for this season. They show the low tops and the high tops as well.
Very grown and sexy. Adults ONLY lol.
Oh and guess what I found while browsing Selectism other interesting stuff on Kayne West (boy that Kayne West really trying to be the first black billionaire rapper).
You guys might also want to check out this right here too. Some real casual Perrys along with some Vans and another sneaker I don’t recognize lol For the full effect of what is called Court Legends, click here.
Sneakers and Shoes… BRINGING HEAT lol
Fendi Lets You Design Your Bag… Just Like adidas-Color Does
Fendi Says: Design it yourself beeaacheszzz!!! lol
In a move that could be looked at is copying (lol ok, ok, I’m just kidding. I am sure this is not that original of an idea) Fendi lets you design your own Baguette of which Baguette must be the high society way of saying bag.
The bag is found at eLuxury.com but I first found this on Luxist
Has it really been ten years since the Fendi baguette? To celebrate the popular slim bag Fendi has released a new version in ten bright Pantone colors. They’ve also created a kit so you can create your own custom Fendi. The kit contains a bag of coated canvas with a removable belted shoulder strap with buckle attachments, polished gold metal logo-engraved appliqués on each side and an acrylic double-F logo on the front.
Yall already know what it is… lol I am waiting to find the first picture of some star wearing (using I guess) the bag and what they design for it. Personally i would go all out and get a artist to put something real nice on it. So on top of the 1300 dollar price tag (way more than the adidas color LOL) you will add the 200 – 10,000 dollar cost for the art work depending on who you have do it.
I think Beyonce has been seen in Fendi so I’ll look there first. Ya’ll help me out if you see anything. Send pics of any celeb with the new Fendi bag with a original drawn design on it if you catch it (or if you buy it and make an original design then send that in too) to thenewthing {at} sneakersandshoes.com
Hell… any new sneakers or shoes, original, hot, custom or otherwise send it to that email addy.
In Sneaker News: Phil Knight Getting His Retirement Ready – Sells His Nike Stock
I read this in Newsday (a NYC newspaper) and on the Huffington Post. I’m not mad at this. The guy is like in his 90′s or something lol so why not start taking out his money so he can do his thing? I know people are gonna get mad that he is taking his stock out of his company. “Doesn’t he believe in his company anymore?” I can see someone saying or maybe “He’s just etting rich like all those other CEO’s”.
What I say is what exactly would you do? You start a company, you spend 60-70 hour weeks, end up in debt to investors and lay most of the money you have on the line endorsing your first athlete (you know him… Micheal Jordan), so I think after retiring almost 3 years ago, he can take his money out and start investing other things AND put his money in the bank.
The 70-year-old Nike founder has done hundreds of separate stock sales since mid-April, collecting $1.05 billion – well ahead of his $780 million cash-out of shares in 2007. That’s the year he placed 14th in Vanity Fair’s ranking of windfalls made by the rich from selling stock or family empires.
At Knight’s current pace of selling his shares, the one-time track star at the University of Oregon is likely to pass reigning cash-out king Bill Gates, who topped Vanity Fair’s windfall rankings last year at $2.8 billion in stock sales.
Source: Huffinton Post and the AP
Now that is a good look. Makes you think to yourself how can I make the millions?
In Sneaker News: Babylon collecting sneakers for Nike to recycle
It looks like the town of Babylon has decided to do something for Earth Day many day ago. Hey I don’t think its to late to blog about something like this.
As part of the Earth Day celebration, the town of Babylon employees (all the employees of the town??? are we talking about city workers or everyone who works there?) have collected what would have just gone to the trash and taken it to the Refuse A Shoe program. I never heard of this program so I am glad to have found out about it. Anyway they took the shoes to an area Nike store and Nike will turn it into what they call Nike Grind.
Here is a quote from the Newsday.com story:
As part of this year’s Earth Day celebration, town employees are collecting old sneakers that otherwise would go into landfills for donation to Nike‘s Reuse-A-Shoe program, which uses the recycled material in different parts of sport surfaces in communities across the United States and around the world.
Babylon will deliver the donated sneakers to Nike’s store in Bellport, which will ship them to the company’s processing plant in Beaverton, Ore. That’s where the shoes are ground up into a material called Nike Grind.
According to Nike’s Web site, most of their synthetic surfaces include 10-to-20 percent recycled material – rubber from the outsole, foam from the midsole and fabric from the upper.Source: Newsday.com
This is good news for everyone. I am glad that companies are at least trying to do something about what is happening to our environment. Whether you believe in global warming or not, the bottom line is that we can NOT continue to treat our environment the way we do and thing NOTHING WILL HAPPEN. That, my felly sneakers and shoe fans, is just plain ignorant.
PEACE
Hybrid Nike Air Max 97 x Air Max Plus (The Tn’s) Pics On SneakerNews.com
Sneakernews got pictures of both colorways of the new hybrid between the Air Max 97 and Air Max Plus aka Tuned Air aka Tn’s. While Air Tuned aka Tn’s did not do to well on the market and officially you just do not see them any more on any Nike sneaker, Nike has, at least, brought back the best style and colorways of the Tn series.
I loved the Air Tuned aka Tn’s (I’ll admit I do not know how they preformed on the track… I hear people just didn’t like it for what ever reason… more research on that later) and I really loved the Tn’s that came out back in the day. Now they are mixing the 2 and using WAY better colorways for the men. Personally I think the womens Tn’s looked way better as far as colorway was concerned.
When it comes to the air pillow, it seems to be all Air Max and no Tuned Air (but I am not sure yet). This would be in line with other hybrids that only slap on the bottoms of one sneaker line to the upper of another.
I tell you boy, these look good. And the blue and white, while not as flashy, is for the more understated gentleman type lol.
These would seem to be Footlocker Exclusives but I have yet to see them online so I guess you have to go to the stores to get them for now. Footlocker is a national chain so it shouldn’t be hard to find one close to you.
PS
NIKE I wish you would combine the Tn’s with Air Max 360 please. You know how to do it! 360 on the bottom and the Tn’s on the top (upper) and make those colorways HOT thank you. Don’t forget to bring back some of the classic colorways that actually did well.
Nike Womens Blazer Hi and Low in Canvas or Tweed
A bunch of sneaker sites including sneakernews and sneakerfiles posted that these sneakers are coming out for the ladies. Check out the sneakernews.com posts:
- Nike Blazer Low WMNS – Tweed – Newark Eagles – Untold Truth 2008
- Nike Blazer Mid WMNS – Canvas – Olive Khaki
Plenty of pictures to take a look at so you ladies (and maybe some guys) can check out what is next for the Nike Blazer family of sneakers. I like the canvas olive khaki but I am more into tweed these days, so why can’t my woman have tweed too?
Based off of work done by the artist Piet Mondrian. I like Mondrian… I actually based some of my work off of his paintings including Broadway Boogie Woogie. Heck, I even have a Windowblinds skin based off of “Broadway” but explaining that is for another time.
EDIT
Nicekicks.com says that some of these Mondrian sneaker have been released. More info here.
On Sale: Puma Suede Mid Weave on Zappos.com
From Zappos.com: Puma Suede Mid Weave – Price $89.99
This caught my eye while browsing for those casual shoes that I can’t remember the name of… anyway, they style is cool and I like how they made it “weave” (I can’t tell from the pictures if it really is weaved) its weaved, just saw the close up d’uh. That’s one thing I can say about Zappos is that they really take pictures of what you are getting. Front back left right bottom… LOL They could use a couple more close up shots I guess, but they pretty much got the sneaker covered.
From what I see on the site, the sneaker has 2 styles. Both pretty much stand out but have a cool quality too. I haven’t seen these on other sneaker sites so I don’t know when they first came on the scene but there here now.
On Sale: Nike Mad Jibe on Finishline.com
As seen on sneakernews.com, you can get these quite nice casual sneakers at Finishline.com (it is also available at Proper too). Not bad for $89.99
I think they look pretty nice. My Mom commented on them and was wondering if they came in a wide, but OF COURSE NIKE doesn’t make sneaker with widths (watch for a rant on this in the coming weeks) so she probably won’t be able to fit in them comfortably. As for me,I have been looking for a casual sneaker/shoe that I can chill in while still looking grown AND sexy and these might be it. They sort of look like those… man I can’t remember what they are called. Well, anyway, they are smooth and you can go to work in them and it won’t be a problem.
The Mad Jibe will have to wait for next year for me though, I already have those Vans for my chillin set and a pair of Creative Recreations will round out my sexy casual look. Although I do need a pair of sneaker shoes like these Mad Jibe’s though… I’ll have to think about it (probably get a mid-top timbo dress casual sneaker/shoe).
