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This literally rather sick pair of Vans are customized for CAMOUFLAGE of Portugal by Six Letter Word / Diogo Potes.

Via Core77.

The shoe above is the Nike Air Max 360 Air U Breathe designed by Kevin Lyons. It's part of Nike's latest efforts to inflect more art into their product line, with Lyons, Ben Drury and Hitomi Yokoyama on board, Nike Air U Breathe. That feature is off Freshness btw.

I got this email from The Gloss advertising their new webshop, which is pretty well stocked with good stuff and this shoe being part of it. (They're this Swiss shop that also has a branch in Shanghai, of all places.) What caught my eye wasn't the pretty graphic applique alone but the fact that it was primarily, a trainer, which typically gets zero love in terms of artist collaboration.

Perhaps trainers are finally on the cusp of a comeback.

After over a year of tantalising us with the Mongolian Shoe BBQ, PUMA have finally unleashed it online. At the moment, you can only customize one style of shoe, the RS-100. I like that they fully incorporate the Mongolian BBQ idea into the site, which is kitschy but cool. Had problems loading it with Firefox so I used IE (gasp!) but its well worth the wait. You get to select from 20 different components of the shoe in total. That translates into a high degree of personalization of your shoe. Above is just one of the 214 different designs I made and you can tell there's a good selection of materials and colors already.

Hot off Cool Hunting.

I feel like putting in an order for one of these String Republic slip-ons. The ones above are by zany SKWAK from France. Love the mouth on the foot there. You'll also find shoes by KOA DZN amont many others. At 30.90 Euros, its not exactly gonna burn a hole in your pocket either. Thank you productdose.

Why didn't I come across this before? Another in a long list of stuff that I should be more attuned to. Design your own Converse Chucks and Purcells. The flash format is exactly the same as Nike iD's.

Come to think of it... I remember Nike bought up Converse not that long ago...

Check out my "custom" Chucks.

Here's Jeff Ng AKA Jeff Staple's blog. A tribute to his old friend, Jeff is archiving a shoe every week
from his collection. Each shoe is up for grabs and you can also check out the little bits of Jeff's
everyday life, meeting people like Futura, KAWS, Stash, going to Timberland and NIKE offices, playing mahjong and telling it like it is.

Its nice to see all these names in pictures, presented through someone's honest eyes. Thanks to Cool Hunting for this great link.

Ps. That pic is NIKE's office lobby flooring made out of airbags.

Following Nike's iD and Puma's Mongolian BBQ Shoe, here are more color your own sneakers, this time from Reebok, RbkCustom. The pic is my own custo Reebok, lovingly entitled Yellow Fellow.

Informed by Freshness.