So i'm really into shoes. I haven't been for that long however. It was the summer of 2006 when i went into one of those vintage (expensive) thrift stores and picked up my first pair of Dunks (Nike Hi-Tops). About a month later i walked into a room and one of my friends almost fell out of his chair. "Sea Crystals!" Turns out the shoes i bought, which i just thought were super dope looking, are crazy rare and expensive. This opened my eyes to a new world of shoes and live hasn't been the same since. I know, I know, it's crazy materialistic. It's my biggest vice. I'm really battling it lots of the time because I kind of stand for a person to not need something like that to feel good about their self. For now, however, it's a hobby and i'm obsessed with it. Here's some pics of my latest additions:
These babies right here are in my top 2 favorite pairs that I own. They're called the Undefeated No-Liner Stussy World Tour LA Dunks. Long names make things sound fancier. So Stussy did this collaboration with Nike a couple years ago and released a different pair of Dunk Hi's for about 5 cities across the world. Paris, London, New York, Tokyo and LA were some of them, I'm exactly sure of any others. So these ones are the LA ones, which I thought fitting, because in my mind it's kind of cool that I live in LA. It's always been kind of a fantasy of mine to have an apartment in a big city and do the cool things there which i'm now doing.
These babies right here are in my top 2 favorite pairs that I own. They're called the Undefeated No-Liner Stussy World Tour LA Dunks. Long names make things sound fancier. So Stussy did this collaboration with Nike a couple years ago and released a different pair of Dunk Hi's for about 5 cities across the world. Paris, London, New York, Tokyo and LA were some of them, I'm exactly sure of any others. So these ones are the LA ones, which I thought fitting, because in my mind it's kind of cool that I live in LA. It's always been kind of a fantasy of mine to have an apartment in a big city and do the cool things there which i'm now doing.Next pair:
These babies are my first pair of Air Max 1's. These are the very first shoe that Nike made with the air bubble showing on the outside of the shoe. The inspiration for their design came from the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris. It's a bulding that has seemingly no exterior walls and it's pipes with which it is covered are painted bright bold colors. The running department didn't want to put these shoes out, but the designers won the battle to get them on shelves. These 2008 remakes of this shoe were designed on nikeid.com. Air Max 1's are available in lots of stores but in pre-made colors and fabrics. At nikeid.com one can design their own shoes with their choice of color and fabrics on each specific part of the shoe. DOPE. Okay, my disclaimer is though, that I got these shoes in China. Some kid must have chose some rad colors, because i bought these there, not from the website, from a sort of catalouge of shoes that a certain vendor had. It took me 3 weeks of searching for the perfect pair. It was 4 days before I was to leave the country that I found this guy in a shopping place I'd never been to. He ordered them for me and we picked them up right before I left, along with the 11 pairs of laces that come with each pair of Air Max's from nikeid. Bayam! I still wear them only on special occasions.
Okay, i love you bye!
MC OZ
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