sneakerheads
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Something About H.E.R.: The 2019 Grammy Nominee Teams Up With Adidas and Foot Locker
She’s just received five 2019 Grammy nominations (tying Cardi B) for Best New Artist; Best R&B Performance; Best R&B Song; Best R&B Album; and Album of the Year. Now, the singer/songwriter/instrumentalist known as H.E.R. is putting an Asterisk on her stratospheric success with Adidas and sneakerhead mecca Foot Locker, joining Kid Cudi, WNBA star Candace…
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Reebok x Pyer Moss Scores a Big Win at the Footwear News Awards
Pyer Moss’ rise continues. Following a nice bit of product placement from musician Anderson .Paak during last weekend’s Saturday Night Live performance, on Monday night, the label was awarded Collaboration of the Year for their ongoing partnership with Reebok at the Footwear News Achievement Awards, sponsored by Ruffino Wines. The honor comes only a year…
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Stephen Curry Continues to Address Gender Disparity—This Time, With a Sneaker
Steph Curry has gone on record in support of gender equality (though we’ve yet to see any of that translate to equal or even higher pay for the WNBA). In fact, in an essay timed to coincide with Women’s Equality Day 2018, he wrote about the impact his mother, wife, and daughters have had upon…
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This Is Not a Drill: Pyer Moss x Reebok Restocks the DMX Daytona Experiment 2
Here’s a gift idea you won’t want to miss: Just in time for Black Friday, Pyer Moss’ latest offering in their collaboration with Reebok, the DMX Daytona Experiment 2 in the Chalk colorway, has been restocked on the label’s website. The unisex kicks feature leather paneling, gold-tipped laces, a magnet-attached embroidered logo tongue tab and…
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The Original Sneakerhead: Whoopi Goldberg Shares Her Longtime Love of Sneakers with Complex
Whoopi Goldberg is well-known as a giver of zero fucks, but what is less acknowledged about her—despite her seemingly contradictory identities as both an unapologetic comfort dresser and a constant front-row presence at New York Fashion Week and the Knicks games—is that she’s a bit of a fashion trailblazer. In fact, Goldberg was one of…
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Am I Being Sensitive? A Discussion About a Business Transaction Gone Wrong
I’ve been saying for years that disrespect, even implied, is the leading cause of death for black men between birth and death. There’s something about the feeling of another man disrespecting you that makes you uneasy, even long after the (potentially perceived) slight took place. This brings me to a situation that occurred on Saturday…
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Belieni: A Sneaker Is Born
In your wildest dreams, would you change your life and your career and follow your passion all the way to Italy to design luxury sneakers? That’s exactly what this brother—who goes by the single name of Belieni (bel-ee-AH-nee)—did. Belieni is a self-taught designer from the Potomac Gardens projects in Washington, D.C. While enlisted in the…