Author: Jake Archer
After their recent reveal of the Balenciaga x adidas collection, you could very well assume that the latest ‘Roverend’ was part of this launch. With its heavy trail inspired approach and its over exaggerated design, the ‘Roverend’ is definitely an eye catching silhouette. From heading out on your next adventure, to stomping through the city streets, see it as a silhouette that has you covered for anything thrown at it.
The main focus point of the ‘Roverend’ has to be the 3D textured midsole and outsole with its layered approach resembling a heat map, staying true to the ‘Adventure’ on the heel. Arriving in two very contrasting pairs, the ‘Roverend’s most eye-catching rendition is a ‘Pulse Lime’ that bursts with neon energy. Don’t feel left out though if you fancy a more laid back approach as adidas also has you covered with a host of blacks and carbon greys across this multilayered upper.
Shop the adidas Originals Roverend in-store and online, priced at £160.
Recently, Jordan collectors and consumers alike, have slowly seen a resurgence on the Air Jordan II. Designed by the late Peter Moore and Bruce Kilgore (designer of the Nike Air Force 1), the AJII epitomised elegant aesthetics by being Made in Italy, along with faux lizard skin and sleek lines.
As of recent, we have seen collaborative projects from OFF-WHITE and Union LA, offering their vision on the silhouette. Coming off the back of successful takes on the AJIII and AJ1, we see James Whitner’s A Ma Maniere lend their hand and story.
The upper features cracked leather suede which is an ode to their previous collaboration on the AJ1, whilst Burgundy Crush is used on the heel and line details along the medial and lateral parts of the shoe. Black eyeleys, waxed lacing, tongue tab and lining offer contrast whilst faux scale print is used on the midsole. White A Ma Maniere branding on the heel finish off ‘Your Airness’.
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The LONDON IN-STORE draw is now CLOSED!
ONLINE draws are live over on the Footpatrol app, CLICK HERE to download!
To enter, you’re required to sign up via the above forms, these WON’T be available in-store to sign up on.
In-store winners will be contacted via email informing them of their win. Within this email, winners will be given a set of dates in which they must collect their win from our London store. To collect, you will need to provide the winning email and a valid photographic government ID matching the winners name. NO ONE can collect on the winners behalf. Failure to provide this, or failure to collect within the given dates will mean failure to purchase your win.
To sign up to the Online raffle, you will need to download the Footpatrol Launches app and complete a pre-authorisation payment of the retail price of the product plus shipping costs. This will be held until raffle completion. Those successful will have their raffle win posted out to the address entered during sign up. Those unsuccessful will see a return of their funds, this can take up to 5 working days from when the winners have been drawn. The raffle is limited to one entry per household! Multiple entries will be cancelled!
Putting sneakers aside for 10 minutes, another thing we love at Footpatrol is the world of art. Much like sneakers, art offers an endless world of possibilities and allows everyone and anyone to be a part of it whether you’re the creator or a viewer at an exhibition.
Last week, we visited our good friends at The House of St Barnabas who had an exhibition by hyperrealism artist, Gabriella Anouk. Always having a drawing pencil in her hands since her teens, Gabriella uses her frankly ridiculous drawing skills and takes the everyday mundane objects to create the most intricate, eye-catching drawings. Never missing an opportunity to connect with the artist and their work, before her opening night we invited Gabriella down to Footpatrol to talk to us a bit more about her work and where her passions all began.
Take a closer look below and make sure to check out her website for more information!
Footpatrol: Gabriella before we get into anything, it’s so great to meet you! Starting things off as simple as can be, how are you?
Gabriella Anouk: I’m good, thank you! I’ve been wanting to up my ‘shoe game’ for a while now, so I’m really glad we got to do this. Please teach me all you know! Plus the sun is shining, so happy days.
FP: For people who are not familiar with your work and what you do, could you tell us a little bit about yourself ?
GA: This question always makes me feel like I’m on a date. So, I’m an artist, my favourite colour is pink (which you’d recognize from seeing my work), I’m half Dutch half Welsh.. super random mix I know. I’m one of five kids, which I guess is kind of cool, and I love to draw. I currently work with colouring pencils to create pieces that play on scale and the manipulation of shapes, which for my recent series I did using slime.
FP: When was the first time you realised you had a love for art?
GA: I’ve always enjoyed drawing since a very young age, but I only fell in love with it last year when I started to create the Slime Series. It was the first time I felt like I had total creative freedom and control over my practice. The drawings just poured out of me, it was like an out of body experience, once I started I couldn’t stop, a total blur. As cliche as that may sound! For so many years I had no idea what I wanted to do, and that’s a pretty scary mindset to be trapped in.. so I think that’s why I’m extra grateful for these experiences and for the work I’m now able to create.
FP: Some of your work is focused on hyperrealism. Have you always been into that style?
GA: This is a super interesting question and topic for me. I haven’t always been into hyperrealism, no, and when I set out to create this series, it wasn’t my intention – it just kind of happened.. Although, I personally feel a little uncomfortable with the term. I don’t particularly like categorising my work as hyperrealism because I’m not sure it really falls into that ‘style’. I’ve never really been a fan of labels to be honest, I like to just go with the flow and focus on the experience and the challenge of drawing something in lots of detail rather than trying to achieve a certain style. The subject matter is at the core of my work and how I get there is just part of the journey.
FP: If there is any, who has inspired your art form?
GA: Dali has been a huge underlying influence for me from a very young age and I fell in love with his work all over again recently when I went to the Dali Museum in Figueres. Seeing the work up close and personal is just an incredible feeling.
FP: You have your most recent series of work on show at the House of St.Barnabas, which look so nice altogether. Could you tell us a little about the slime series and how that came about?
GA: I’m so grateful to the House of St.Barnabas for hanging the series in their beautiful house for the summer period and to be involved with such an incredible charity is wonderful. The series came about roughly a year ago to be exact! As it was a national lockdown I was limited in what I could use so I turned to my household objects. I’ve never been super interested in still life, particularly fruit bowls, so I decided to put my own spin on it by adding the slime element. I loved using slime because it can change a mundane object into something sculptural. As the drawings themselves can take up to 200 hours to create I have to be really ‘into’ what I’m doing or I’ll get bored! I love all the interesting reflections the slime creates and how it manipulates the fruit’s shape and colourings. Plus the juxtaposition of the synthetic slime contrasted against natural flesh is pretty fascinating.
FP: Is this the first time you have tried to create something like this?
GA: Yes. Before this I was a commission based artist for three years, so my hands were pretty much tied behind my back for that whole time. I enjoyed it the first two years but toward the end I felt like a conveyor belt, I’d finish a commission and then it was straight onto the next and so forth. One day enough was enough! It’s worth noting that there was nothing fancy about how I got the idea of the Slime Series. I just woke up one day, stumbled downstairs, made a coffee and was about to eat my favourite breakfast – avocado toast (yes I’m basic) – and you know when you cut open an avocado and it’s a perfect colour and the stone to fruit ratio is just right? Well that happened and I thought, I just have to draw this! And the Slime Series was born.
FP: Did you have many struggles when creating this latest series? And if so, how did you overcome them?
GA: There are ups and downs throughout each drawing. Starting a piece is super tough for me but once I get into a rhythm it’s fine, until I get close to the end of the drawing, which is when I start to torture myself with plenty of self doubt, ‘is it good enough?’ ‘Did I just waste 100+ hours?’… I recognise this pattern now and just try and push through it.
I did however have covid while drawing the last piece in the series, ‘Pomegranate Amour’ – but it sort of worked in my favour. I ended up spending the 10 days of quarantine in my studio and drew the pomegranate while being very kindly looked after by my partner who served me my meals through the door.
FP: If you could pick one favourite piece that you have created, which one would you choose and why?
GA: The avocado, without a doubt. It was the first piece I drew and the catalyst to the whole series. I owe so much to that piece.
FP: What advice would you give to people trying to make it in the creative industry?
GA: Never give up! If it’s your true passion it will come at the right time for you. I was 26 when I finally knew what I wanted to do and before then I was super lost. But, I really believe in spreading positivity, you get back what you give out.. karma type stuff. So keep grafting, try everything and your time will come.
FP: Gabriella, we would like to say thanks so much for spending the time with us today! Is there anything you would like to share with the Footpatrol friends and family to sign everything off? A message of positivity, whatever you like.
GA: Haha I guess a repeat of what I said in the previous answer. I’m a firm believer in spreading positivity and kindness. It costs nothing to be kind! Top tip, make your bed in the morning and keep ticking off little tasks throughout the day and it will have a positive ripple effect on your life. It’s all in the little things!
P.s. Thank you for the trainers, I finally feel cool.
Frequent Players has always been a way of bringing the sneaker community closer to those within the world of music. For our latest guest mix, we link up with London based OS Community. Whats been built from the ground up by a group of friends and creatives, each one of them brings the enthusiasm and passion to the table for music whereby everyone can be a part of.
We sit down with ‘Baron’ aka Luis Sabogal Ceballos, Colombian born, London raised who co-founded this fresh community.
Take a read below and make sure to check out Baron’s mix now live below!
Footpatrol: OS Community, welcome! We have been looking forward to this one, how are you?
OSC: All good! Always grateful to be alive and healthy! We’ve also been looking forward to this 🙂
FP: For our community members that may not have had the honor of meeting you, could you tell us a bit about yourself?
Luis: My name is Luis Sabogal Ceballos. I was born in Colombia and raised in S.E London, around the Walworth Road/Peckham area. I’m a co-founder of the collective The OS Community. I DJ under the name Baron, and I love Arsenal 🙂
FP: So what exactly is OS Community?
LC: The OS Community is a London-based collective that showcases underground electronic music and artists, curates music-focused content, and prides itself on creating a sustainable honeybee-like network and community of friends and family within the scene.
FP: What was it that spurred you on to want to do this?
LC: It all started with a group of friends who all had a mutual love for electronic dance music and a good party. We’d typically go to the park with a speaker during the summer, and it would eventually turn into a party. With this happening, we just thought we could do this ourselves, so we started finding different cool locations and putting on free raves. These places included an abandoned kid’s nursery, a skate bowl, and underneath a bridge. We built our community this way, eventually moved more into clubs, and officially organized these events. A place I will always big up, that played a big part in our growth is Venue MOT in Bermondsey, a proper grassroots music venue. They allowed us to hold parties in a good club, which allowed us to book artists we thought were cool, and our own DJs, myself and Joseph, also co-founder of OS. So we owe a lot to them 🙂
FP: One thing I like about you guys is your name; the fact you have a community in there already says to me that there is a larger scope with what you guys set out to achieve other than DJing at events. Could you tell us a bit about the community element to what you do?
LC: So that was mainly spurred by my perspective on electronic dance music, mainly house & Techno, and after seeing how it had impacted my own life. When I was young, I grew up around Walworth Road/Peckham, and I used to get into a lot of trouble to the point I was incarcerated for a year. When I came out, I was introduced to this music and scene and I had found something that let me be myself. So with that outlook on it, we felt we should try and use it as a tool to help young people because if it impacts someone from a young age, it could help them avoid making inevitable mistakes.
FP: Do you guys always work as a collective or do you do these sessions individually as well?
LC: Initially, it was with a youth program called Alchemy that operates in Goldsmiths University on Saturdays. They allow young people from the local borough to create music using the university’s music facilities. When we started, Joseph, a friend Tomas and I organized it. But this was just before the pandemic, so we couldn’t carry on with the sessions. Luckily, I ended up enrolling at the university to do a course called Applied Social Science, Community Development & Youth Work. I ended up working on the Alchemy programme, and while it was virtual, it was mainly mentoring, but since we’ve been back, I usually take my decks in and teach them how to DJ, which has been unreal seeing how quickly they learn. So at the minute, it’s just me as Joseph has now gone to LA to do a master’s degree in Film.
FP: What has the response been like during the courses you’ve been running?
LC: Well, in the beginning, we would introduce ourselves, relate with them and then speak about the history of House/Techno and show them that this music can also be an option for them. The response was great because once they got a bit more comfortable with us, we got them to approach the decks and just let them do their thing and guide them. I would say not every young person there was super interested, but the ones that were for us, that’s a lot, and of course, you can always build with time.
FP: Is there a wider aim with what you guys have set out to achieve or do you think you have reached that target already?
LC: We don’t think we have reached the target. This is just the start because these young people still have to grow up and experience life. So it’s also about guiding them. We also feel that the history of House and Techno should be magnified a lot more, especially within the inner city lower-income areas where the demographic is predominantly black and minority ethnic. Drawing from my own experience, I found that the whole world of this music was utterly foreign. Still, once I knew that this music also came from the struggle created by Black and Latinx people. I could relate to it a lot more, and we feel that this is super important. So it’s all about creating that bridge and accessibility to it. Whether it be DJing or producing and starting from there. The more people we can get through the door, the more opportunities.
FP: What would be the ideal set up for one of your community events?
LC: An ideal setup for us would be to have a space that allows us to bring in young people and offer them opportunities to get involved in music and not only music but also other multimedia skills. We reckon that by accomplishing this, we’re able to create our community and maybe even some sort of conveyor belt where we’re leading young people to succeed in whatever sort of musical direction they go in. I always like to reference Youthville in Detroit, where Mike Huckaby, RIP, used to do a lot of his work by going in and offering his knowledge and experience with music production workshops.
FP: OS team, thank you so much for spending the time with us today. Before we let you go, we like to sign everything off with anything you guys would like to share, that could be gassing up an event, a message of positivity, whatever you guys want really?
LC: I just wanna big up our mix series called ‘The ExpOSe Mix Series.’ What we do is we get an up-and-coming or lesser-known artist and pair the mix with a more established one. This way, the more established artist’s fanbase is introduced to the lesser-known, creating exposure. We just recently released the latest one featuring Call Super and Kiernan Laveaux and should be releasing our next instalment around mid June so keep an eye out.
The YZY FOAM RNR, which is made in the U.S.A., features injected EVA foam to provide lightweight durability. This model is made using algae harvesting technology that helps to keep lakes clean. The soft top layer in the footbed offers immediate step in comfort. The strategically mapped vents around the foot provide air flow and breathability. Additionally, the YZY FOAM RNR will usher in a new box construction that requires less material, which leads to less cardboard material waste.
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The London In-store draw is now CLOSED!
The ONLINE draw for the ‘STONE SAGE’ is live over on the Footpatrol app, CLICK HERE to download!
To enter, you’re required to sign up via the above forms, these WON’T be available in-store to sign up on.
In-store winners will be contacted via email informing them of their win. Within this email, winners will be given a set of dates in which they must collect their win from our London store. To collect, you will need to provide the winning email and a valid photographic government ID matching the winners name. NO ONE can collect on the winners behalf. Failure to provide this, or failure to collect within the given dates will mean failure to purchase your win.
To sign up to the Online raffle, you will need to download the Footpatrol Launches app and complete a pre-authorisation payment of the retail price of the product plus shipping costs. This will be held until raffle completion. Those successful will have their raffle win posted out to the address entered during sign up. Those unsuccessful will see a return of their funds, this can take up to 5 working days from when the winners have been drawn. The raffle is limited to one entry per household! Multiple entries will be cancelled!
Cactus Jack and Nike are back… Their latest footwear silhouettes reinterpret the brand in a new state as CACT.US CORP. They’ve reimagined, designed, and built this Air Max 1 for the unpredictability of everyday exploration. Simply put, this sneaker is made to thrive wherever it happens to be, and it carries CACT.US CORP’s unique aura and durable designs.
In regards to the Air Max 1, the silhouette has been inspired by the ACG Pocket Knife, a drawstring Gillie lacing system, custom nubuck and mesh-patterned overlays on the upper recall the ‘90s utilitarian classic. This Air Max 1 features a rubberized Cactus Jack tongue logo and a custom CACT.US CORP outsole, and while the lateral side displays an unmistakable reverse Swoosh, the medial side of the sneaker’s design stays true to its OG Air Max 1 roots.
The Air Trainer 1 small zipper pocket on the heel lets you stash essentials, a removable shroud (stowable in a tongue pocket) snaps onto the upper to help keep the elements at bay, and the iconic forefoot strap locks in the fit.
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The ONLINE draws (AM1 NOW CLOSED!) are live over on the Footpatrol app, CLICK HERE to download!
To enter, you’re required to sign up via the above forms, these WON’T be available in-store to sign up on.
In-store winners will be contacted via email informing them of their win. Within this email, winners will be given a set of dates in which they must collect their win from our London store. To collect, you will need to provide the winning email and a valid photographic government ID matching the winners name. NO ONE can collect on the winners behalf. Failure to provide this, or failure to collect within the given dates will mean failure to purchase your win.
To sign up to the Online raffle, you will need to download the Footpatrol Launches app and complete a pre-authorisation payment of the retail price of the product plus shipping costs. This will be held until raffle completion. Those successful will have their raffle win posted out to the address entered during sign up. Those unsuccessful will see a return of their funds, this can take up to 5 working days from when the winners have been drawn. The raffle is limited to one entry per household! Multiple entries will be cancelled!
Over 20 years on from its original release and the Nike Air Kukini still to this day, looks like its been brought back from the future, not the past. That may be thanks to its origins and its birth from within the Nike Alpha Project. Having seen other famed silhouettes like the Air Presto, the Alpha Project was an opportunity for Nike to explore ambitious projects that pushed the boundaries of performance and sneaker design. Each of these sneakers were branded with five dots which for anyone who hadn’t noticed, can be located on the heel of the Air Kukini.
With the aim of pushing boundaries and seeing where sneaker design can take them, the Air Kukini uses a laceless system which with its webbed cage wrapping itself around the shoe, offers more stability and structure to its on foot feel.
Returning with a bang in 2022, the first release doesn’t hold back in its approach. Finished in an all-over leopard print pattern, it screams 90’s nostalgia which with the upcoming summer months, is the perfect footwear throwback. Take a closer look below and make sure to look out for the Nike Air Kukini SE ‘Kumquat/Action Red’ launching at Footpatrol on Thursday 26th May, in-store and online.
Coveted in her seams and redefining a new conceptual name for portraiture, Footpatrol has had the pleasure of joining creative forces with Tokyo based artist and illustrator Sayuri – undertaking her own individualised spin on our latest rendition of the Communi-T series. Utilising her impressive portraits into a sentimental narrative, we believe that Sayuri would be the perfect fit, paying true homage to the world of sports that has always been deeply ingrained into the sneaker culture.
For this Communi-T, Sayuri wanted to mirror what sneakers meant to her and how this can be seamlessly translated into a T-shirt form. Taking cues from Micheal Jordan’s game changing Air Jordan brand and its subcultural influences on basketball, coupled with the well-renowned Manga Slam dunk series created by Takeniko Inoue, this T-shirt will certainly be a seasonal standout.
This one opts for a plush cotton construction coated in a crisp white hue with a printed graphic in black adorned to the chest. Micheal Jordan quoting envelopes the portrait and reads: ‘Love is playing every game as if it’s your last’ – celebrating the legendary b-ball icon. This motivational t-shirt offering is completed with a detailed hem lined finish.
The Sayuri x Footpatrol Communi-T will be launching in-store and online on Thursday 26th May, priced at £35.
Get involved with our t-shirt design brief, and you could win a place on our third re.GENERATION workshop to screen print your design onto a t-shirt. Better yet, your design might be selected as our next Communi-T t-shirt release, winning you £500, a set of t-shirts for yourself and a warm glow of pride.
Our re.GENERATION workshop series covers four key areas in the life cycle of a creative campaign, culminating in the Communi-T release. We started with copy-writing in Workshop 1 before moving on to image-making in Workshop 2, where attendees used our winning slogan from the first workshop to explore ideas for t-shirt print designs.
Now, we’re opening up the t-shirt design brief so that anyone can enter online. The winners will get a place on Workshop 3, where they’ll learn how to print their graphic onto a t-shirt, and ultimately one winning design will be brought to life and immortalised as the next Footpatrol Communi-T release.
Read on for full details on how to enter.
THE BRIEF:
Create a design to be printed onto the back of a t-shirt, inspired by the winning copy line from Workshop 1: CHANGE YOUR MIND, CHANGE MINE
The theme of the phrase is change through dialogue. In a world of polarised opinions, we can make more progress if we’re willing to explore and learn from different points of view as well as explaining our own.
You can use this slogan to inspire your design in any way you choose. Explore the theme of dialogue, or follow your own interpretation of the phrase. Your design can be created digitally or by hand, and you can use any medium you like: illustration, photography, collage etc.
A selection of entries will be chosen to go through to Workshop 3, where the winning designers will learn the ins and outs of screen printing with Print Club London and use their graphic to create a t-shirt.
CREATING AND SUBMITTING YOUR DESIGN:
Please follow the guidelines below when creating your design:
Your graphic should be no larger than A3 portrait format (297mm wide x 420mm high)
The design can be any shape or size as long as it fits within the maximum dimensions
Please create your design in black on a white background
Make sure to avoid any extremely thin lines as they may be lost when screen printing (for digital artwork, lines should not have a thickness of less than 1pt)
Digital designs must be saved at full size in one of the following formats at 300dpi resolution: AI, PDF or TIFF
Designs created using physical media must be scanned at 300dpi resolution and supplied in TIFF or PDF format
Please submit your design to regeneration@footpatrol.com by 03/06/22.
Unfortunately we won’t be able to accept any submissions that don’t follow the guidelines above. All designs must be your own original work, and in the case of collage or mixed media you must ensure that no element infringes any copyright.
Unrivalled in shape and branching into lux territory, the famed household icon receives an innovative makeover in its latest collaboration with luxury footwear designer Salehe Bembury. Standalone in style and divided in opinion, Crocs continues to inspire with its water aptness, textured perforations and are always the comfortable footwear guise of choice. Previewed three intrinsic colourways : ‘Stratus’, ‘Urchin’ and ‘Crocodile’ there is every reason to be clog ready this summer season.
Crafted from foam, the fit is moulded into an unorthodox fingerprint design – its daring exploration of form is one that is reminiscent of Salehe Bembury’s signature branding. Concaved perforations throughout continues the theme of authenticity as well as keeping things ultra-lightweight. Paired with an adjustable heel strap for added personalisation, while underfoot, the part translucent outsole unit signs off the design with supreme durability made with everyday terrain in mind.
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The London in-store draw is now CLOSED!
All online draws are now housed over on the Footpatrol Launches App, CLICK HERE to download!
To enter, you’re required to sign up via the above forms, these WON’T be available in-store to sign up on.
In-store winners will be contacted via email informing them of their win. Within this email, winners will be given a set of dates in which they must collect their win from our London store. To collect, you will need to provide the winning email and a valid photographic government ID matching the winners name. NO ONE can collect on the winners behalf. Failure to provide this, or failure to collect within the given dates will mean failure to purchase your win.
To sign up to the Online raffle, you will need to download the Footpatrol Launches app and complete a pre-authorisation payment of the retail price of the product plus shipping costs. This will be held until raffle completion. Those successful will have their raffle win posted out to the address entered during sign up. Those unsuccessful will see a return of their funds, this can take up to 5 working days from when the winners have been drawn. The raffle is limited to one entry per household! Multiple entries will be cancelled!
