I never really liked the concept of the Yo MTV range of Puma Trainers. I dont listen to enough rap and I always find that any rap fashion I try on makes me look silly - really silly. Someone who’s far too old and is trying to be ‘down with the kids’. Anyway this weekend I found a pair of DJ Cash Money Pumas from the Yo MTV range. And they’re great. (more…)

Just quick post about the service available from Nike iD. Text a pic from your mobile phone, assuming you’re in the UK here, to 88247 - with the message ‘Dunk’. Nike will take the image and use two of the colours in it to build you a pair of trainers. You’ll then be emailed with info on how you can purchase your bespoke Nike iD. Will post my trainers from the gig I was at last week when I get home and get the pic off my phone.
More info available @ http://www.akqa.com/nikephotoid/. You may need to use Internet Explorer to see the video - Firefox took a dislike to it and wouldn’t play it.

In the same way that I evolved from Takashi Murakami prints into those by Chiho Aoshima my tastes in trainers is developing. I still have my mad cultural fascination with everything from Japan but my tastes are altering over time. Gone is my fascination with the neon-day-glo styles and increasingly I’m being interested by the more subtle expressions of culture, architecture and design I’m finding. My recent new desire is for the trainers designed by Jhung Yuro.
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One of the most fantastic things in the entire universe is trainers (if you’re living outside the UK you may call them ’sneakers’). Trainers - along with Marlboro and rum - help to block the entire world out. My personal predeliction is for Puma trainers. Retro styling, the calm simplicity of them, elegant lines and the variation on the design is almost endless.
Today I discovered my new lover - Reebok Reverse Jam Trainers. These are even more beautiful than my black/orange Pele’s, my multi-coloured Clydes or even my most beloved Adidas Adicolor Y2. If anyone knows where I can these in the UK I will worship you forever.