Punk just enough, rock just right. The new sneaker designed by Rick Owens for Converse made its debut during the Paris shows and immediately caught attention. It’s not every day, in fact, that you see sneakers with square toes. And to this day, no designer had thought of it. While Converse has never held back on collaborations, in fact. Rick Owens himself had already given his interpretation in spring-summer 2014, but now it’s a full-fledged collaboration: the American designer has literally put his touch on the design, not only in terms of unusual toe shapes, but also expanded the tongue and modified the label to show the DRKSHDW collab.
“When I think of Converse, I think of the white and black Chuck Taylors and the punk rock generation. These have always been iconic pillars of my aesthetic,” says Owens. “By wearing Chuck Taylors, you align yourself with an experimental generation. There’s a confident dynamic in the subculture.” “When I see something omnipresent, I feel like distorting it. I don’t know what it is. Maybe it’s a kind of teenage anger. But that’s one of the biggest charms of the Chuck Taylor All Star,” Owens says. With a shared willingness to continually evolve form and function, the Converse x Rick Owens DRKSDW collaboration will reimagine and reinterpret classic Converse sneakers throughout 2021.

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