World Cup Dunks

I'm facing a bit of a dilemma, for Christmas last year my wife let me design a pair of shoes on the Nike Id site. I was never able to pull the trigger on a design mainly because my first choice was the air max I which wasn't available. The Air Max I was made available on the nike id site last week, i've already come up with a couple of sweet colorways but now I'm thinking I should wait for one specific reason.
The World Cup begins this summer, last time the World Cup was played(2006), nike got behind the U.S. team in a big way. Part of Nike's push involved offering a Dunk low on the id site that allowed you to manipulate the colorway based on the team colors. The icing on the cake was that the heels were stitched with the words "Don't Tread", the advertising slogan for the team. I got a pair of these and have worn them more that any other pair of shoes I've ever owned. At this point I'm hoping that Nike does a world cup dunk again so do I wait or not?

NB Jp 575 Horse Hair

My "summer shoes" finally got here... kinda.
You may remember that back in May I ordered a pair of New Balance 574 in the Air Mowabb colorway from Crooked tongues. Due to some delivery mishaps the shoes made it to my door but not into my mailbox before being sent back to London. Sadly at that point the shoes were lost somewhere in the warehouse, so much for those.
Thankfully in the interim these NB Jp 575 Horse Hairs in the black colorway made their way onto the sale section of Crooked Tongues. These are listed on Crooked Tongues as a Japan only release which is a little surprising because I thought this shoe had just been released in the states. Upon closer inspection the "Black Horsehair NB Jp575" that was recently been released in the states has brown leather surrounding the horsehair panel on the side while my "Japan only" version have a black/dark charcoal color. Both versions sport black horsehair on the side panel, a 3M reflective "N", leather laces and a speckled outsole. This is a perfect winter shoe so the timing worked out in the end.
Let me just say that I am more then pleased with Crooked Tongues, they are faultless in all this delivery confusion. Sure they lost the shoes in the warehouse but the shoes never should have gone back in the first place. All of my contact with them was great, they answered my emails promptly and gave me several options to remedy the lost shoes problem, I will be ordering from them again.

FreshJive article

My friend, Anna, writes for the Downtown Los Angeles newspaper and did a really interesting article/profile about the man behind the FreshJive label. It's a great read, check the article here

Generic Surplus

Birthday kicks! The moccasin style in gray from Generic Surplus, purchased at UNDFTD Silver Lake. Subtle, understated, perfect for fall in L.A.

Cyclope vs. Veja

This nice collaboration between The Cyclope bike shop in my neighborhood and Veja showed up on Highsnobiety yesterday. The Veja shoe is really popular in Paris but normally they are seen in single colors. I'm pretty excited about this shoe, it's simple but colored up real nice. On top of that it has a really cool connection to my area. I haven't heard anything on the price, usually they are fairly cheap but these have been beefed up for fixed gear abuse. Drop date is January 2010.

Jordan I Celtic

I really like this Boston Celtic colored Air Jordan I. Get rid of that fuzzy material on the swoosh and this would be a amazing shoe. Like most people who watched the NBA during it's glory days i've long had a soft spot for the Celtics and the styling of the Jordan I brings to mind that era. Can you imagine Bird rocking these instead of those Converse weapons? It dazzles the imagination to even consider it. These are subtle enough that they would be perfect everyday shoes, even in Paris where black on black is king.

Update: The Nike Store at Chatelet has a pair of these in a size 13 and 12 for half price.

DQM bacon again

DQM has gotten with nice to color up a pair of the air max 90 current huaraches(that's a mouthful). DQM has used this "bacon" colorway before and it looks good. I suppose this colorway could get played out pretty quickly but it's fits so perfectly with the DQM theme that I see why they came back to it.