Posts Tagged ‘Converse’
03/11
Sunday, July 3rd, 2011
Converse have collaborated with influential street savi brand The Hideout to release three new Chuck Taylors. The Hideout stamping the Chuck with their ever so obvious ethos for great quality materials and fabrics on amazing streetwear brands.
They kind of remind me of the Missoni collab but without the distinctive Missoni print, more in the way [...]
09/11
Wednesday, March 9th, 2011
Converse have partnered with Italian fashion house Missoni to give a bold and premium reworking of the iconic Chuck Taylor shoe in the shoe brand’s extremely limited First String range. Together they present both men and women’s styles.
Here the Chuck Taylors’ uppers are made from Missoni’s famous space-dyed knits whilst the shoe is given [...]
21/10
Thursday, October 21st, 2010
Today Converse releases a short film featuring extraordinary talents Alexis Taylor and Joe Goddard of Hot Chip. This follows the release on October 6th of the original track ‘Didn’t Know What Love Was’, a musical collaboration featuring Bernard Sumner from Bad Lieutenant, New Order and Joy Division, Alexis and Joe (Hot Chip) and Hot City.
This [...]
02/10
Saturday, October 2nd, 2010
Offspring and Converse have come together, and showcase their Clean Crafted pack. The pack is exactly what its name is- finely crafted with a clean finish, presenting a sophisticated look. The classic Chuck Taylor silhouette is completely decked out with premium leather uppers, laces, rand details and tongue labels.
The pack’s selection come in autumnal [...]
27/10
Friday, August 27th, 2010
This weekend marks the first release of Converse’s (Paint the Town) RED project, which is a collection of Converse Chuck Taylor All Star shoes with Parra, Giovanni Estevez, Aaron Martin and Cody Hudson.
Each artist was asked to use their unique style to create a special shoe; however each shoe is unified with a paint [...]
21/10
Saturday, August 21st, 2010
If you remember, back in June, Nike invited WeAreHQ out to NY for a media event to hear the announcement of the first ever World Basketball Festival. This was initially due to be held in Rucker Park, Times Square and Madison Square Gardens. Fast forward to August and being in NY, we find out that [...]
14/10
Saturday, August 14th, 2010
Last weekend saw thousands of action sports aficionados descend upon Huntington Beach, California for the annual US Open of Surfing. Aptly known as ‘Surf City USA’, the city played host to the world’s best pro surfers, skaters and BMXers, who made their way West to compete in and beside the Pacific Ocean. WeAreHQ was there [...]



