Showing posts with label shoes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label shoes. Show all posts

Tuesday, June 3, 2025

Color-changing Nike soccer cleats



$260

Thursday, February 13, 2025

The moon soles on the new Nike Kobe 9 Low Protro Moonwalkers



($210 list price)

Saturday, November 2, 2024

De'Aaron Fox's new signature sneaker features a strap in the shape of a fox tail

Thursday, September 19, 2024

Jets' Quincy Williams had some extremely sparkly shoes today



Saturday, July 20, 2024

Nike decided brown was the color to feature in a showcase moment




They look like they're covered in flow-viz:



Wednesday, July 17, 2024

Josh Naylor's glittery baseball shoes







Here's what they look like getting stomped on:

Monday, March 11, 2024

The Godzilla-heeled shoes are by Hazama







And yes, they do other exotic heels:

Sunday, March 10, 2024

Godzilla heels at the Oscars



Wednesday, December 27, 2023

Game of Death Bruce Lee-themed Sabrina 1s



*Previously: Jason Scott Lee (as Bruce Lee) vs the marines

Monday, December 18, 2023

Some fun looks at the sneakers of the year

This account has posted nominees in several categories. My loved ones vetoed my favorite sneakers of the year*, so I settled for some Ionescus.



*Not to mention price, availability.

**More photos of the delightful, intricate lunacy.

Tuesday, November 21, 2023

Owner of a high-end sneaker business alleged to be at the center of and international money laundering scheme



WSOC:

IRS investigators say he bought athletic shoes and apparel from a major un-named sneaker company. Authorities said the contract forbid him from selling those items to other retailers or selling them outside the U.S.

But agents claim the business owner did both, selling them to a Chinese national who then resold the items -- at least $32 million worth -- over a five-year period.

Investigators said the group didn’t report cash payments over $10,000 like it was supposed to, lied to U.S. banks, and potentially broke federal anti-money laundering law.

Complex:

Nike, which is headquartered in Oregon, is [the owner]’s largest collaborative partner. The brand regularly works with [his] stores on special-edition releases, the kind that are sought after and resold on the secondary market for well over their suggested retail price. This year alone, Nike plans to release 12 different sneakers in collaboration with [his] stores.

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In response to the complaint, the Whitaker Group highlighted its work to help people of color tell their stories and said that work was under now attack

Saturday, May 28, 2022

"A large sneaker reseller in [Oregon] has collapsed owing millions of dollars to customers"

Oregon Live:

Zadeh Kicks’ founder ... called the Eugene Police Department asking for police protection. [He] was apparently afraid for the safety of his family after a number of furious customers showed up at the Zadeh Kicks warehouse in an industrial section of West Eugene demanding their money back.

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the FBI has launched a criminal investigation, trying to figure out what happened to the enormous sum of customers’ money that has gone missing.

Complex:

Zadeh Kicks was established in 2013 as a sneaker resale company. Over the years, it became known for offering preorders for hyped sneakers far in advance of their official release date. The price points for the sneakers were often considerably lower than their expected market values, creating an enticing model for both resellers looking to stock up on product for lower-than-normal and average customers who wanted to avoid paying the high-end value.

When reports and rumors of new sneaker releases would leak, Zadeh Kicks would offer them for preorder almost instantaneously. This meant that there were sometimes cases where the shoes would never materialize as a retail release (e.g. Futura x Off-White x Nike Dunk Lows) or would be exclusively offered from one source (e.g. Fragment Design x Travis Scott x Air Jordan 1 Highs on SNKRS). In these cases, Zadeh Kicks would be unable to provide the sneakers and would instead offer buyers store credit or heavily taxed refunds, terms that were clearly stated on the website.

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One of the elements that made Zadeh Kicks so appealing to flippers and wearers alike was that despite their “low” ticket price, all signs pointed to the shoes being real.

Monday, July 26, 2021

Nike is suing a shoe customizer

Nice Kicks:

According to the complaint that they filed in a federal court in Oregon on Monday, Nike and Converse claim that Waskowiak and his company KickRich LLC are liable for damages for making custom shoes that “combine purportedly genuine Nike shoe soles with uppers fabricated entirely by the defendants,” and that include “reproductions of Nike’s famous Swoosh design and other protected trade dress,” and then selling them for “hundreds or up to several thousand dollars each.”

Nike and Converse allege that the defendants acquire genuine Nike and Converse footwear, such the Air Jordan 1 and Air Force 1, as well as Converse’s Chuck Taylor All Star, and then, “without authorization, alter them in such a manner that constitute new, unauthorized products” over which Nike and Converse “have no control” even though their trademarks “remain intact” on the “custom” shoes. While these allegedly “customized” shoes “may use pieces of genuine Nike and Converse shoes,” the plaintiff argues that the genuine parts are “so altered and combined with non-genuine parts or other brands’ logos that they can no longer be meaningfully considered Nike or Converse shoes.”