Golden Goose Superstar Taped Sneakers, selling for $530. From the product description:
Crumply, hold-it-all-together tape details a distressed leather sneaker in a retro low profile with a signature sidewall star and a grungy rubber cupsole. Lace-up style Removable insole Leather upper/leather and textile lining/rubber sole.
I recently posted about sneakers made from chewing gum. Here are some made from fungi. I wonder what other materials sneakers could possibly be crafted from?
The fungi sneakers are made by nat-2, which describes itself as "german engineered high-end footwear." From their website:
The leather like material is created from the Trama of the tinder sponge. Fomes Fomentarius aka. tinder sponge is a parasite growing on dead or weak birches and Beeches. In a very costly process the found fungus gets tried for about a year after a ling search and following nature friendly, gentle and certified hand harvest. Afterwards it gets peeled off and further worked on by hand. The material is organic, vegan, gluten- and chemical free. The fungus is antiseptic and anti-bacterial.
They seem to be currently sold out. But when they were available, they cost €899, or around $1043.
Posted By: Alex - Thu Aug 23, 2018 -
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The soles of these shoes are made from recycled chewing gum from the streets of Amsterdam. In the Netherlands 1.5 million kilos of gum ends up on the street every year. Making it the second most common litter after cigarettes. By buying these shoes you contribute to the solution, by wearing them you show your support.
But what happens if people stop dropping their gum on the streets? Will the gumshoe company just go out of business?
Back in 1967, the Haband mail-order company of New Jersey wasn’t selling many of its sandals, until it came up with the idea of advertising them as “captured” Vietcong slipper sandals, claiming they were the “First big style find of the war!”
You had to read the fine print to realize that it was simply the design of the sandals that had been captured. And even so, not really, because they had been selling the same sandals for years.
The company later reported that it was the most successful ad they had ever run, and that the 'captured' sandals sold "like mad."
As far as I can tell, they ran this ad for at least a year.
18-year-old Siddharth Mandala of Hyderabad has developed an "electroshoe" that will allow women to fend off attackers. One kick with the shoe and it'll deliver a powerful electric shock to an assailant. The shoe also automatically recharges itself through energy harvested from the wearer's footsteps.
So far Mandala has only developed a prototype. And unfortunately there doesn't seem to be any footage of the electroshoe in action.
The idea reminds me of the spiked defense shoes from 1955.
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