Author: Bradley Martinez
When it came to re-imagining two of Converse’s most iconic silhouettes, Converse looked towards an animal theme. No stranger to this theme, they took to looking at the different patterns and effects that come within the reptile world. Converse decided to deck both the Chuck 70 and Pro Leather in a reptilian style effect. Adding to the effect of when the sun hits a snakes scales, they have both been finished in an all over sequin upper adding to that shimmering look which when light strikes against the upper, both shoes create a stand out look.
Take a further look at the three styles below.
launching in-store and online on Friday 25th October, sizes range from UK5 – UK12, priced from £80 – £90.
The Air Jordan 1 iterations keep on coming and as we approach the Autumn season, the Jordan Brand are keeping it strong with the return of a familiar colourway.
The black and orange colour blocking is familiar as far as traditional holidays go in particular with Halloween but in Jordan Brands history it’s related to Michael Jordan’s backboard shattering dunk whilst participating in an exhibition game in Trieste, Italy. Whilst wearing a jersey with black, orange and white colours as well as “Chicago” AJ1s on foot MJ simply took a powerful dunk to the rim and in turn shattered the glass backboard.
With a “Shattered Backboard” iteration already released in 2015, 2016 saw a “Reverse” version and in 2018 a women’s exclusive “Satin” make up was introduced to the line-up. With the Shattered Backboard series being a fan favourite, 2019 sees the return with this latest iteration.
Keeping the black and orange colour theme similar to the Bred colourway amongst the upper, the midsole features a sail midsole and outsole. The standout element of the shoe is the patent leather on top of a pre-crease aesthetic to give a shattered glass effect.
The Air Jordan 1 High is now SOLD OUT.
In celebration of the 10th anniversary of Michael Jordan’s 2009 Basketball Hall of Fame inauguration speech where he famously closed the speech saying “Limits, like fears, are often just an illusion”.
The ‘Fearless Ones’ series focusses on the stories of those who exemplifies the symbolic power of the AJ1 and follows the theme by highlighting communities and collaborators across the globe who continue to inspire people to reach new heights.
With that thought in mind, we kick things off where it all began with the Air Jordan 1 and an exclusive for all those female Jordan collectors out there. This AJ1 in particular has been decked out in an all over dot texture, flipping fear upside-down with an inverted colourway which shimmers with a rose gold metallic and black colour-way across the entire upper harking back to the OG colour-ways with an all-white midsole sitting below.
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Following on from the second release of the Nike x Sacai LDWaffle, we have a new iteration of the Blazer.
Known for her technical ability, Abe has become well known for taking garments and reworking them, often creating a single garment from different cuts of multiple garments. Ever since her days as a pattern cutter at COMME des GARCONS and Junya Watanabe, Abe has become one of the most influential mens and womenswear designers with Sacai since its introduction in 1999.
Much like the LDWaffle, the blazer is a fusion of the Nike Blazer and elements of the Nike Dunk creating a hybrid of two of Nikes most iconic silhouettes. With this fusion of the two sneakers, the Sacai Blazer features a double lace set up on top of a double tongue with doubled up swooshs finishing off the design.
Sign-ups close at 10:00AM Wednesday 9th October. Winners will be contacted on 11th October and will be able to collect their pair in-store from 10AM Saturday 12th October, to 6PM Sunday 13th October. Good luck!
To enter for the BLACK/WOLF GREY raffle, Click Here
To enter for the WHITE/WOLF GREY raffle, Click Here
This fall sees adidas enter the outdoors world with a gardening inspired capsule collection. The pack has been filled with a tongue-in-cheek sense of humour taking a look at lawn-based activities.
Delving into a world of ‘avant-gardeners’, the adidas gardening club is a humoured, and fresh take on the modern hiking and outdoor trends that are seen on the streets of today showcasing adidas’ creativity and technical thinking.
The capsule collection sees three pieces of footwear as its main focus alongside an array of clothing. With their colour-ways taking inspiration from the outdoors, you get a perfect contrast between those earthier tones with sudden bursts of bright floral blues and yellow hues.
Taking that humoured approach to the collection, each piece has been named after a different type of gardening product, resonating with those true gardening heads. The specially created Response Hoverturf is a shoe ready for almost any terrain and will come to life in two iterations. A subtle grey version has been created for those everyday tasks whilst a black out iteration has been decked out with a lace cover panel for those dark winter covert gardening operations. The Novaturbo is another brand-new style to the range which has been designed for the ease of slipping on and off and has a distinct tech sandal design with straps and buckles on the rear taking inspiration from some of adidas’ more innovative designs within their archive.
The material that is at the forefront of the collection is a ripstop nylon that has been built for breathability and features across the footwear and the clothing.
Coming soon to Footpatrol…!
Chinese sports athletic goods brand Li-Ning was founded in 1989 by former olympic athlete Li-Ning himself.
Li-Ning specialise in sporting footwear in particular basketball and have endorsed a host of former all-star athletes such as Shaquille O’Neal, Baron Davies and Dwayne Wade respectively. Currently they sponsor Portland Trail Blazers shooting guard CJ McCollum.
Aside from athletic footwear and apparel, Li-Ning have ventured into lifestyle fashion too and their latest silhouette, the ‘Furious Rider Ace’ have been brought to attention.
Featuring a ‘chunky’ aesthetic with a suede and mesh combination in earthy tones along with hits of blue and orange hues on the medial and lateral side of the shoe. The midsole also features a trail-like design with speckle detailing.
Additionally, a few iterations have also been designed featuring a mesh and leather overlays rather than suede. Li-Ning branding in a translucent finish located on the tongue and heel as well as a double-lace system. Finished off with a translucent cage on the medial and lateral side of the foot.
Li-Ning Furious Rider Ace is Now available in-store and online. Sizes range from UK6 – UK11, priced at £125.
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Following on from the initial release of the Nike ZoomX Vaporfly NEXT%, we bring you the next colour-way in the NEXT% family.
The NEXT% is your entry to record breaking speed. That is the main reason why you will see these on most elite athlete’s feet. With key innovations and technology, the NEXT% has become Nike’s fastest shoe.
With the use of an innovative carbon-fibre plate, the NEXT% helps propel every kind of runner to the finish line first. Sandwiched between Nike’s most responsive ZoomX foam, the carbon fibre plate works in tandem to deliver the propulsion needed for every single stride.
The Pink Blast upper has been constructed from Nike’s new VaporWeave technology which has been designed to withstand any abuse it’s given but to also be as light as possible.
Launching online on Thursday 3rd October, sizes range from UK6 – UK12, priced at £240.
Last week saw us host events in both our Paris and London stores in celebration of our latest collaboration.
This recent coming together saw us team up with fellow Le Marais residents, Paperboy. Known for their experimental food, Paperboy have managed to build a menu fusing together worldwide influences. Much like their menu, the collection saw the merging together of both our logos. The instantly recognisable Paperboy ‘Running boy’ logo found himself being equipped with the equally recognisable Footpatrol gas mask.
The evenings events saw the guys from Paperboy join us and supply some of their specially crafted food and drink for a coming together of both our brands and both of our communities who we’d like to thank for those who took the time and managed to come down and celebrate this with us, whilst also turning the streets of Le Marais into a road block!
The Footpatrol x Paperboy capsule is now available in-store and online in select sizes. Prices range from £30 to £60.
This seasons adidas SPZL collection features 4 shoes and a range of ready to wear with it’s significance being more personal connect to Gary Aspden himself.
The footwear that feature within the range are the adidas SL80 SPZL which is dressed in its iconic navy, yellow and red colourway with a mix of mesh and suede uppers making this a 1:1 retro of the original model.
The adidas Winterhill SPZL takes inspiration from the Reinhold Messner signature mountain boot. Being the more harder wearing model from the range the Winterhill comes in adidas’s newly revived adi-tex technology making them water resistant, a raised mudguard for increased durability with subtle adidas branding on the side wall and tongue. Also included in the range is the adidas Hoddlesden SPZL, taking design cues from the Freizeit series which follows on from predecessors such as the adidas Albrecht SPZL keeping it in line with adidas’s leisure shoes.
The Final model and focal point of this seasons SPZL range, the adidas Blackburn SPZL. Named after the Lancashire town from where Gary Aspden grew up the Blackburn is the first of its kind. With the colourway inspired by the Lancashire Rose, the shoe is constricted in a green suede upper and red stripes, navy sole and MOD Trefoil branded tongue.
To round off and complete this FW19 SPZL collection is a host of clothing. The earthy toned Belthorn anorak and the Rossendale parka melds both durability and style, are the standout pieces from the collection. Along with the jackets, a Spezial liner vest which fits seamlessly into the Belthorn, 2 t-shirts in both short and long-sleeve completing the look with 2 pairs of adidas Spezial socks.
Coming soon to Footpatrol.
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Introducing the second instalment from our Frequent Players Guest Mix series, we welcome Dance System.
Hailing from London, James Connolly has moulded himself into one of the most recognisable faces in electronic and dance music. Working under different aliases such as L-Vis 1990 and Dance System, as well as co-founding the label Night Slugs, James has managed to re-shape the British club scene during their 10 years into what we know it today.
In an attempt to breath a new sense of life into the electronic/techno scene, Dance System was revived bringing with it a new sound, and seeking out new inspirations. James looked towards influences from Dance Mania and to Chicago, taking dance music back to its very core.
Before he took to the decks, we sat down with James to discuss where he gets his inspirations from and where he’ll be taking Dance System too next!
Alongside our latest guest mix for Frequent Players, James has been busy creating a remix of A-Trak ‘Work it Out’. Make sure to check it here!
Footpatrol – Taking you away from music for a moment, could you give us an insight into where you find inspiration when trying to create new music?
Dance System – Early summer last year I felt kind of lost as an artist and a bit disillusioned with the scene I was in. It’s weird when you have been in the game so long and you see the cycles of music come around over and over again. I didn’t really want to be part of that UK club music conveyor anymore and I was really uninspired. One morning I decided to pop into a record shop in my neighbourhood in Tottenham, the place only sold Dancehall and UK Street Soul & RnB. I took a punt on couple of records and found some diamonds.. Tracks on those records became the samples for the return of Dance System. Now whenever I need inspiration for new tracks I just have to go digging for records. I find inspiration and can build tracks around the smallest of loops.
FP – Where did the idea come from to move to another alias and create away from L-Vis 1990/Night Slugs?
DS – Dance System alias was born in 2014 with a release on Clone Jack For Daze series, This was a year after my Ballads EP on Night Slugs. I had always done house music as L-Vis but I felt the direction I was moving in was bit more abstract, so I wanted to make a definition between these two musical sides of me. It makes even more sense now that I moved more into vocal productions with L-Vis. House music has been my number one love since I first Started DJing in ‘98 so felt right to make an alias more specific. Funny thing, the name Dance System came to me in a dream! I was so shocked when I looked on Discogs in the morning and it hadn’t been taken… seems so obvious!
FP – We see you have a few fashion orientated clients like Prada, Nike and Opening Ceremony under your belt, can you tell us how these partnerships came about?
DS – A friend of mine put me in contact with this director Thomas Traum, he was looking for some composition and sound design for a job he was doing for Kenzo. I had never done anything like that, but I like to throw my-self into these things to push myself. I never knew how intense thirty seconds of sound design could be, but I actually really loved the process of finding the sounds to fit the images. I come from a Fine Art and Video back ground so it came quite naturally to me. Thomas Traum and I built a great working relationship over the next year working on massive campaigns for the likes of Prada, Nike, OnRunning, Cartier and from that I started picking up other clients including North Face and even KFC! They say ‘its all about who you know’ and it’s true. All of my connects in the industry have come through knowing people.
FP – Do you find there to be a big connection between fashion and music?
DS – Yeah of course! The connection is massive on so many different levels down to what people wear in the club to the music on the runways of the shows. I think the two-go hand in hand, constantly influencing and enhancing each other. I’ve made runway music for Opening Ceremony and Nasir Mazah, I love working with fashion as inspiration for music, it’s really fun to imagine the worlds these clothes live in.
FP – Is there any other type of media that you would love to have the opportunity in creating music for?
DS – I’d love to score a feature film or TV show at some point. A couple of years ago I wrote a theme for a Documentary about the plight of some Syrian refugees called ‘Diamonds Backpacks and a Match Box’. Was incredible to see how my music could elevate and emphasise the emotions within the film, would love to explore that more with some Fiction.
FP – We couldn’t not squeeze in the obligatory sneaker question in here somewhere… What is your go to when it comes to what is on your feet?
DS – At the moment I’ve been living in my all black Nike Air Monarch’s, they are so durable and comfortable and go with any outfit. I go through phases with sneakers. I basically wear one style until I’m bored and move on to the next. My last obsession was Footscape Chuckers, I bought two pairs of the rainbow ones when they came out because I loved them so much!
FP – Lastly, any shout outs, and what can the people expect from Dance System in the near future?
DS – Loads of stuff still to come this year from Dance System. My new remix for A-Track drops today then in October my third EP of the year drops on Mella Dee’s Label Warehouse Music. I also have a remix for Nina Kraviz in the works and bunch more releases bubbling. I’ll be pushing the Dance System project solidly over the next year and eventually drop the album when the time is right.
