It’s baffling to think that it’s taken until the year 2013 for Hasbro and Nike—two of the most powerful brands from the 1980s and 1990s—to finally team up and pay proper tribute to one of the best cartoon bad guys of all time. And while this isn’t the first Nike and Transformers mashup, this amazing Megatron-themed set of shoes are the first that self-respecting Decepticon fans might actually want to wear.
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First and foremost, a good pair of snowboarding boots should get you down a slope safely and with a good measure of comfort. But Nike also wants you to be noticed, particularly if you’re competing and need to impress a bunch of judges. So with its latest snowboarding boot—the LunarENDOR QS—Nike’s enhanced its iconic swoosh logo with 30 glowing LEDs so that when you’re pulling a spiralling Double McTwist 1260, you’ll be an impossible to miss swirl of blue.
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Not every girl can have her fairy tale ending, but every girl can have a pair of shoes that were inspired from stories that had happily-ever-after endings.
Designer Charlotte Olympia’s line for her Fall 2013 collection is aptly called “Once Upon a Time,” no doubt in reference to the classic tales that inspired her designs. From princessy pumps to more casual but still girly loafers, it seems like Charlotte’s got most bases covered.
Unfortunately, only women with royally loaded wallets can afford these designer shoes, considering a pair of shoes from Charlotte’s line normally costs several hundreds of dollars.
But still, it doesn’t hurt to admire and dream, right? I’ve got my eye on yellow sandals with the bejeweled crown. What’s your favorite?
[via TAXI via Incredible Things]
Are you tired of just sitting around the house after you’ve given yourself a home pedicure while you wait for the nail polish to dry? Oh, sure, you have the toe separators to keep your toes from touching one another and ruining your paint job, but if you have to get up you end up lurching about on your heels like Frankenstein on a bender while trying to keep those little piggies perfect. You may just need a pair of Tip Flops.
Aly and Beth Khalifa have a vision: to “establish the new cutting edge of sustainability.” They’re doing it by creating products that can be easily broken down, repaired, or recycled and they’re starting with a simple pair of shoes. Called LYF, these odd-looking clogs are completely recyclable and can be repaired by anyone with a rudimentary grasp of fabric cutting and whittling.
These $150 shoes have one solid piece – a main connector – that holds down the outer shell and holds on the sole.
“Having worked in footwear, I have been exposed to nasty solvents like Toluene, which are used to assemble most footwear. These glues are bad for factory workers, bad for the planet, and ultimately prevent the shoes from being recycled,” said Aly. “We decided to address this head-on with a mechanical assembly and were inspired by Japanese Joinery which creates famously strong structures without glue or fasteners. Once we established the modular mechanical approach to making shoes, it allowed us to escape the centralized manufacturing model all together. In fact it allows us to make shoes in places as small and intimate as a retail shop.”
The company is based in Raleigh, North Carolina and aims to sell their shoes online and in stores. Their Kickstarter page is live now.
“Our product is made on-demand for the consumer and establishes the new cutting edge of sustainability. Our process utilizes the latest digital techniques to make truly custom footwear. Not only do we reduce our waste and carbon footprint in the way we make our product, but it is designed for disassembly so that we can keep it out of the landfill and allow them to be LYF-Cycled into new shoes,” said Aly.
If you wanted to repair these shoes you’d simply find the patterns and cut out, say, a new upper or build a new sole (eventually) on a 3D printer. While full recyclability is still a long way off, Aly sees these shoes as a way to empower small business to create, customize and maintain LYF Shoes. While I doubt these kicks will hit Air Dunk levels of popularity, it’s nice to know you can take these into the machine shop and come out with a nearly new pair.
Last year we checked out the Skora Form,
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Forget Red Bull, Shwing sneaker accessories give high-top lace-ups real wings in a wide variety of colors and patterns. Simple to install and remove, Shwings kick your flighty fashion sense to a new, higher level and are also a great way to add new dash to well-worn footwear.
Look. Your adult self is pretty much a failure to your 8-year-old childhood self. You don’t buy toys for yourself anymore. You don’t remember the last time you gorged out in the candy aisle. You try to eat healthy. You talk about things like politics and the economy and lumbar support. You basically lost everything you enjoyed doing as a child. So do yourself a favor and remember the good times by creating your own LED shoes that light up when you walk.
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Here are the jewels that’ll adorn the feet of the world’s greatest basketball player LeBron James for the upcoming basketball season. They look like they’re brilliantly cut like a diamond. They look like something Iron Man might wear in his future. They also look like something an outer space alien version of The Thing would wear on his feet. Basically, they look nothing like how most basketball shoes are supposed to look.
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Nike’s impact on both pop culture and the shoe industry is unrivaled. It’s consistently one of the most popular brands in the world and has an insane sneakerhead following. But of all the hundreds of shoes released since the 1970s, what are its most iconic designs?
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