Respect The Architect: Tinker Hatfield

There is only one sneaker designer I have supreme reverence for: Tinker Hatfield. This guy literally INVENTED Nike's "Air Bubble" and almost every subsequent Nike Air shoe after that. Everything you see coming from Nike now came from Tinker's brain.

He designed sneakers to mimic the Pompidou for God's sake. The Air Max 95 was created in the form of the human body, specifically the spine. THE definition of genuinely inspired design.

Gear Up

Your semi-weekly update on new threads. The early summer edition.

Supreme Striped Parka
I like my gear to make you confused about whether I'm about to take my sailboat out or head to the Little Brother show. Keeps the shorties steady guessin.

ALIFE Saucony Shadow 6000 Package
I can't believe these are only released in 3 colorways of 200 each, because I swear these are the best release of the last 5 years in the entire shoe game. And I don't even usually like Sauconys.

Nike Dunk Nylon Pack
What will sneaker designers think of next? Teflon?
Nike must have a small village of designers & general slaves locked in an unknown basement with every material in the world at their fingertips and Pantone chips blowing all over the place while some Chinese official is shouting obscenities demanding a new release every hour. Make those out of Fiberglass! Pink! Bright yellow! More!

David White iPod Skin
Skins for your iThing are for 15 year-olds, except when you are rocking an original Dave White on that piece.

Frank TJ Fitted
This limited edition New Era has a quote from Thomas Jefferson on the underside of the rim: "If you would not be forgotten, As soon as you are dead and rotten, Either write things worthy reading, Or do things worth the writing". Working on it Thomas, working on it...

(Shouts to Julian).

99 Problems, and My Kicks Ain't One

New Air Jordan Olympics VI. These are officially scheduled to win the gold medal in Beijing in the event of "Asskicking."