If it’s for a good cause, people will lend a hand, but for the (RED) campaign, celebrities and designers have come out of the woodworks. For footwear, many notables have collaborated with (RED) to produce special editions of classic shoes and buyers have been especially willing to shell out the dough because the proceeds were being used for a greater deed. Here’s a look at New York artist Giovanni Estevez’s Converse Chuck Taylor designed for the (RED) collection; it cheap nike free 3.0 v3 features a tonal black upper with the powerful red on the uppermost eyelet and All-Star tab on the heel, and features Estevez’s interpretation of the NYC skyline stitched on the upper. Take a look at the gallery after the jump and head to Livestock to get Women Nike Air Max 2011 your pair.
The Converse Pro Star’s classic design gets a touch of fluff with the new Converse Pro Star Baby Bear, which cheap shoes on sale features a cuddly inner lining of fleece and a tan/brown colorway representing the classic teddy bear. While these may not be as in-your-face as the Jeremy Scott x adidas Originals Teddy Bear – the darn thing has a teddy bear’s head as the tongue – the Pro Star has the right mix of colors and materials to be part of that group. Yellow branding on the midsole and heel tab along with pink bottom sole finish the color-blocking with a fleece flex cutaway at the achilles. These just released at Flauge so take a detailed look at this curious pair after the jump.
Takahiro Miyashita’s Number (N)ine label came to close some time ago but his expertise in creating mystifying pieces of work from the most plain canvasses can be seen in his recent collaborations with Converse. Last March Miyashita created the Asymmetrical All-Star Low and One Star, featuring a Footscape-like lacing structure that fell to the lateral edges of the shoe, and that same design notion is seen in his most recent Number (N)ine x Converse project, inspired by the Odessa, the classic Converse runner from the 1980′s. The uppers of both Fall 2010 colorways are constructed in deer-skin, with leather inner linings. This release will be available at the select Converse accounts like Leftfoot in Singapore so take a look at these inspired designs and let us know what you think. via streething.