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Vans Sneakers Design Contest
Vans launched this March a new sneaker design contest called “Vans Custom Culture”, aimed at US high school kids. One of the goals if the program is to grow the awareness or high school art programs, especially now when the budgets or art are shrinking so much, and also inspire emerging talents.
The contest will culminate [...]
Vans Releases Suicidal Tendencies Sneakers
Vans recently added Suicidal Tendencies to its list of bands they pay homage by creating custom sneakers and other apparel items.
This spring’s collection includes T-shirts, shorts, trucker hats and even a wallet, but the centerpiece is the Limited Edition Suicidal Tendencies Sk8-Hi top sneaker which features drawings inspired by the bands albums artwork.
Suicidal Tendencies was [...]
Snoop Dogg Launches Adidas Originals Star Wars Collection
Just browsing the net the other day, I ran into this piece of news that really made my day. Looks like Snoop Dogg joined the dark side of the force and made it into a parade with Darth Vader through midtown Manhattan to promote the launch of the new Adidas Originals Star Wars collection.
He left [...]
A1 Sneakers Undergoes Major Redesign
If you’re a common visitor of A1-Senakers.com, you sure have noticed the drastic changed to the appearance that I’ve brought within the first days of 2010. That’s because I just moved all the old static html pages into a fresh and dynamic WordPress blog.
It really was time for a change. The site’s been running with [...]
Energie Fall Winter Shoe Collection
I haven’t checked Energie in a long while, so it was just about time to take a look what they’ve done lately. Energie is one of the coolest fashion brands and a great Italian sneakers manufacturer.
They’ve got a new campaign for the Fall Winter 09/10 Collection starring Jonathan Rhys Meyers, an Irish model who’s also [...]
Converse Releases Tokyo Police Club Sneakers
Another band Converse wanted for their Hund(Red) product line was the Canadian group Tokyo Police Club, formed in Ontario in 2005 by four high school colleagues.
They caught the attention of the Converse mangers thanks to the numerous praises from top magazines, including Rolling Stone, for their 2006 EP, A Lesson in Crime.
On their blog, they [...]
New Balance 769 Breast Cancer Awarenes Shoe
October is the Breast Cancer Awareness Month and a number of manufacturers of all kinds of goods have turned some of their products to pink to raise public awareness for it.
These range from household items to pink M&Ms. Well, New Balance released a special edition of their New Balance 769 running shoe for women with [...]
Skechers Shape Ups to Take Over MBT
Looks like Skechers is up to take over MBT in the athletic/orthopedic shoe niche. They recently released their line called Shape Ups for which my first impression was that it was a complete MBT rip-off.
However, at a closer look, the Skechers Shape ups are different and the only thing that resembles the MBT sneakers is [...]
Puma Cell Voltra Jamaica
Keeping it in the same line, the new Puma Cell Voltra Jamaica sneaker is also ready to capitalize on the fame that Usain Bolt brought to Jamaica by wining the Gold in Berlin, after breaking the world record ad 100 meters.
In that match, he had a relaxed victory against Tyson Gay, his main competitor who [...]
Puma Street Yaam
Puma released the sneakers that Usain Bolt wore in his 100 meters Berlin sprint this year when he became the fastest man on the Planet.
They come in two models, the power sprint one, identical to the ones Usain wore, which feature spikes for best grip on the track and a second more street friendly version, [...]