Just a question for you all. Are you guys liking the way Fieg is starting to put his name on his shoes and RF on the heels and so forth? I feel like it takes away from the shoe and he's starting to put himself before the shoe. Thoughts?
i'm going to bring this up just for the sake of discussion (and i'll share my personal thoughts/opinion on the matter at the very end)...since you know, this is a "forum" for discussion and everything...
so just out of curiosity, does it stop any of you from purchasing a pair of shoes when lebron, kd, kobe, melo, iverson, d.rose, shaq, p.rod or any other athlete's name/logo is on a shoe from a sneaker brand (nike, jordan, adidas, etc.)?
now what about music artists/rappers that get their name or quotes, or their music label is on a shoe from a sneaker brand? examples include lupe fiasco, questlove, def jam, etc.
which brings us to designers whose name/logo is on a sneaker brand, does that stop any of you from purchasing shoes? yoji yamamoto, hiroshi/tinker/mark (aka "htm"), etc.
not to mention countless sneaker boutique or magazine or website names on shoes...
now if you answered "no" to any of the above, then why should it stop you from purchasing a shoe if it has "rf" logo (name of the designer) or "kith" logo (name of the boutique) or "just us" text (designer/boutique's motto) on it?
now personally, if it's not over done, like it was on this "24 kilates" collab pair of saucony's (in my personal opinion of course)...then i'm totally fine with it, and am all for it. i actually prefer to have some sort of call-out on shoes that a boutique, designer, or athlete takes part in, so that it's more "personalized" and gives the shoe some more life and story than just straight up color-blocking and/or material differences from what a sneaker brand puts out as general releases. for sneakers that i utilize purely for casual (and not performance) purposes, you'll almost always find me more likely to grab a pair of lebrons or d.roses than a pair of generic hyperdunks or crazyquicks. i would hazard a guess that for the vast majority of us...that most of our shoes that we own from the sneaker brands has some affiliation/association/endorser to it, whether it's an athlete, an artist, a designer, a boutique, etc.
anyways, that's just my 2 cents on this topic...as i'm not sure why folks are so bothered by this on these kith puma coa mints/corals/reds. i love the boutique/designer/motto branding elements on my pair of puma coves...i'd much rather have that than the standard "puma disc system"...
seriously though...prior to kith/rf's original "cove" and now these "coa" versions, how many of you actually have or even considered a pair of puma disc blazes?
