Newsflash: The sacai LDV Waffle is Already ‘Sneaker of the Year’

When I was a kid, I’d press my nose against my mother's and watch her eyeballs move across my vision like great disembodied planets orbiting earth. They would collide, overlap and disappear, existing somewhere deep in my peripheries before slowly materialising again, aligning perfectly. She looked like the primordial, one-eyed giants of Greek mythology.

Later, this interest in visual manipulation manifested as a love for Magic Eye, kaleidoscopes, hallucinogenics, the shimmering autostereograms symptomatic of chronic migraine aura and, ever since Chitose Abe’s SS19 show in Paris, the .