A Curated Look Upon The Sub-Culture of Customized Sneakers

June 25, 2009

June 23, 2009

Now I know exactly what I’ll will do once I get a chance to make a shoe with a sneaker company…..put the same design on a car. I remember seeing some other car customizing done based off the infamous “elephant print” and Air Jordan but this Cadillac Escalade based off the design SBTG created for Nike SB a few years back is even weirder. In a good way though. Seriously how many customizers would do the same thing if they had the chance? Most. Though this wasn’t created directly by SBTG but by a fan….a very dedicated fan. This is much better than one of them McDonald’s, Trix, or Reese’s “donks” too so don’t hate.

From KenLu.net

June 22, 2009

So you did not get a pair of the Yeezy’s? I think these are the closest thing yet aside from some fakes. The crew at Sole Heaven took the Nike Air Scandal and added some off colors of the Yeezy’s to release a 1 of 1 custom called the “Scandeezy”. The name makes these better already. For your own pair email: [email protected]

June 17, 2009

A while back emmanueLabor was commissioned by someone at Vitamin Water for a pair of custom Air Force 1s. Using the relatively same imagery with a little change up he has created a second pair. Maybe these are for the art contest being held by DontPanicOnline and Vitamin Water? First Lebron and Dwight….could emmanueLabor be the next to be seen in Vitamin Water ads? Guess you’ll have to wait and see.

June 16, 2009

These are looking right at you, the eyes of a monster thirsty for blood. How scared would you be if you saw the real life version of the monster YoaKustoms created on these pair of Nike Dunk lows? Hopefully you would have a camera otherwise no sane person would believe your story. This latest pair from YoaKustoms were created for custom sneaker collector freakin’sneakin’ of the Sole Collector forums using the Teen Wolf Nike Dunks that I hear are somewhat “limited” to like 75 pairs world wide. But who cares about manufactured rarity when you have a 1 of 1 custom that can pretty much never be created exactly the same. Oh and YoaKustoms made a matching Dunny to boot.

YoaKustoms Website

June 13, 2009

June 11, 2009

The spaced out pattern on these Nike Dunk highs from Lobo Customs are very reminiscent of Mizzee Customs “Earthworm Jim” Dunk Highs. But we absolutely loved those and these by Lobo are just as good. I don’t know what it is but that airbrush work representing the galaxies, stars, nebulas, and so on only seen with the Hubble Space Telescope are extremely mesmerizing. The Invader Zim graphics are near perfect against the galactic background. Solid work Lobo. We want to see an extremely detailed Hubble Space Telescope photos custom sans any characters….in case anyone is bored.

Lobo Customs MySpace

June 10, 2009

Hey! It’s Vince with the NEW ShamWOW! Dunk Mids. Need to kick a hooker in the face because she bit your tongue? Make sure you’re wearing the right shoes! These shoes come with genuine ShamWOW! material on the midpanels and tongue to soak up all that blood! And it’s machine-wahable, so you know there won’t be any evidence! And if you order now, because I can’t do this all day, the back panels will have a Safari-esque water drop pattern, so you’ll look stylish while doing it! ShamWOW! Dunk Mids; you’ll be saying “WOW!” every time!

RESULTS: Custom Contest #1

Luxury4Play x SBTG / Royalefam x Cadillac Escalade

Sole Heaven: Nike Air Scandeezy

emmanueLabor: Vitamin Water Nike Air Force 1 Vol. 2

YoaKustoms: EYE Created a Monster

Art and Sole 2: Spreading Awareness

Lobo Customs: Invader Zim Nike Dunk high

1 OF: ShamWOW! Dunk Mid

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