{"id":828,"date":"2009-03-27T14:02:15","date_gmt":"2009-03-27T06:02:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dailydozencreative.com\/weblog\/?p=828"},"modified":"2009-03-27T14:02:15","modified_gmt":"2009-03-27T06:02:15","slug":"these-soles-got-the-right-soul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.deaconyu.com\/?p=828","title":{"rendered":"these soles got the right soul"},"content":{"rendered":"

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the right:<\/strong> don’t lost sight of the dna of your company<\/em><\/p>\n

we were more of a black or white converse all-stars person. you will see tons of all-stars on the feet of chain-smoking designers on 7th avenue and 40th street in new york. you know them: they wear really expensive clothes with the 30 bucks sneakers. always in black; never in jeans. yeah, we were one of them. how creative, right?<\/p>\n

adidas stan smith is another designers’ favorite too. other than the fact that adidas have been pushing that style to death every season and running it to the ground , it’s alright if you don’t mind that it really look dated now.\u00a0here comes the nike air elan pinnacle qs. it would look great with our pants (never with jeans) and we would still look like designers. it should be a future fashion classic, in the spirit of stan smith in the 90’s.<\/p>\n

the real lessons are how nike finally gets it. they wanted badly to create a converse all-stars of their own for a decade. failed miserably, they eventually bought converse for usd 305 million. at last, nike realized those fabrics sneakers are not in their blood. you simply can’t have coca cola making champagne.<\/p>\n

similar thing happened with stan smith. nike wanted their version of it. god, were those ugly;\u00a0those soles have no soul. it was just the same last with the\u00a0swoosh\u00a0perforation on it. this failure gave born to nike’s nike sportswear brand, and this kicks that we love. the quality is european. the leather screams fashion. the sole is fashionable thin. the details are designers’ (check out the leather in-set side sole). most importantly, the design reflects all the nike dna yet fashionably\u00a0minimal. this is what happens when you never give up and figure out how to apply your brand dna to a new territory of\u00a0aesthetics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

the right: don’t lost sight of the dna of your company we were more of a black or white converse all-stars person. you will see tons of all-stars on the feet of chain-smoking designers on 7th avenue and 40th street in new york. you know them: they wear really expensive clothes with the 30 bucks […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-right"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pp6zn-dm","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1233,"url":"https:\/\/blog.deaconyu.com\/?p=1233","url_meta":{"origin":828,"position":0},"title":"co-incident 6?","author":"deacon","date":"3 May 10","format":false,"excerpt":"on the left, we have past tees from junk food. on the right, we have the summer '10 ut all stars by uniqlo. i am pretty sure that's not a co-incident. but uniqlo never claimed to be original. indeed, their mission statement is 'to continuously provide fashionable, high quality, basic\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "the past"","block_context":{"text":"the past","link":"https:\/\/blog.deaconyu.com\/?cat=11"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.deaconyu.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/uniqlo-tees.png?fit=381%2C475&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":1366,"url":"https:\/\/blog.deaconyu.com\/?p=1366","url_meta":{"origin":828,"position":1},"title":"east meets west?!","author":"deacon","date":"3 Oct 10","format":false,"excerpt":"being in hong kong in the 80\u2019s, all the cool magazines were talking about east meets west. it seemed like an interesting concept back then. i was thinking maybe that was hong kong, a place where all the westerners would wear cheongsam (qipao), all the chinese would drive their mercedes\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "the past"","block_context":{"text":"the past","link":"https:\/\/blog.deaconyu.com\/?cat=11"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.deaconyu.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/east-meets-west.jpg?fit=850%2C430&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.deaconyu.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/east-meets-west.jpg?fit=850%2C430&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.deaconyu.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/east-meets-west.jpg?fit=850%2C430&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.deaconyu.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/east-meets-west.jpg?fit=850%2C430&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":729,"url":"https:\/\/blog.deaconyu.com\/?p=729","url_meta":{"origin":828,"position":2},"title":"essay: fashion, art and entertainment – isaac mizrahi 1.0","author":"deacon","date":"13 Mar 09","format":false,"excerpt":"After a long break from fashion, Isaac is back and strong for a few years, first with Target and now Liz\u00a0 Claiborne. 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