2007 - BEST OF THE BEST SNEAKERS

ISSEY ENOMOTO / EDITOR SHOESMASTER / TOKYO / VISVIM x AFFA

VISVIM is, to say the least, the brand with an outstanding creativity and courteous making process. And AFFA is the legendary brand that cooperates by HIROSHI FUJIWARA (Tokyo’s charisma creator) and JUN TAKAHASHI (Undercover’s designer) irregularly at times. These really courteous check printed two sneakers are made by collaboration of these two brands that represent TOKYO right now.

The designs are quite similar, as these former models LOGAN and SERRA ALPINE show. Nothing new. But if you wear this you will catch a glimpse of this check print from your jeans cuffs. I think this balance of glimpse-ness is so beautiful.

Or is this kind of feeling only for Japanese?

Sneaker design right now comes to the level of the saturation point. Nothing in design seems totally NEW and immortal.

So, there is a fight against a little arrangement. At that point, this sneaker’s design arrangement is very neat. This sneaker has the style in a casual way, with condensation of Tokyo’s atmosphere right now.