ÿþAs one of the first basketball sneakers to take black sparkly converse the world by storm, Converse's Chuck Taylor silhouette with its cemented roots in Americana have continued to maintain its status as an icon during the countless years since its introduction, proving timeless design beats all trends. Calling back to this nostalgia and its oft-forgotten roots within performance, the Chuck 70 is making a return with a modified ankle, adorning its usually understated construction with one consisting of a tube sock reminiscent motif. Utility comes improved from the typical canvas models, as slipping into the tightly wound high top is now a trivial task due to the elastic ribbing.
The matte distressed upper found on both the black and white colorways exude vintage in every facet with the removed foxing strip, thin laces, and whited out medial patch assisting in that endeavor. At black white converse high tops a price point of $90 USD, expect to find both pairs hitting the retailers below.Converse is inarguably one of, if not the most iconic brands in the entire sneaker industry. Between its high-top, canvas-ridden Chuck Taylors and its low-cut, lifestyle ready One Star s, a pair of Chucks blue and white converse is always instantly recognizable. Now, to keep their product modern, Converse recently released the Run Star Y2K, a running sneaker that borrows design ideals from the aforementioned One Star and other members of its illustrious archive.
This trio is equally balanced between old and new, the Converse CTX Ox connecting to that timeless Chuck Taylor lineage with a perfect-for-summer white canvas build. Anthony Pappalardo's signature goes for a similar sole, but adds grey to the upper for a bit more contrast, while the recently debuted Sergeant Ox stays just as clean in a different corner of blue converse low tops the color spectrum with its navy-on-ivory build. Check out all three after the jump and grab yours at CONS retailers like Premier .Following all that John Varvatos stuff that you saw this morning, there's even more Converse heat to look forward to for Fall 2013.
They're joined by the new Wells lowwtop that's somewhere between a Chuck Taylor and a Star Player, so click through and you can see more of them before picking up a pair directly from Converse .Converse didn't welcome Rune Glifberg with as much hype as Nike had for Eric Koston.Be that as it may, One Star is surely still happy to have in Glifberg one of the greatest vert skaters ever.To prove their love, Converse gave Rune this exclusive Coolidge Mid.It's done very simply in black and white and the best way you can tell they're just for Rune is the black and white Danish flag on the inside of the tongue. We'll keep you updated on release info for these and any other upcoming Cons skate shoes.
Trapasso's signature is back this month in white, leaving the khaki that colored his most buy converse recent release to the Chuck Taylor Skate , and both of these simple if elegant styles are now available at select CONS retailers like Premier .Converse has been around for over a century because both aesthetically and in terms of durability, their designs are built to last. It's a curious shift one hundred-four years in, to begin to offer sneakers Engineered for Destruction'.In the case of the new CONS KA-One Vulc, it's a case where Kenny Anderson's Converse Skateboarding signature has been revamped so that it's even less destructible and more capable of destruction in its own right.