/fa/ - Fashion

It's a caricature of a sneaker. It takes certain key stylistic elements of the hightop basketball shoe and turns the volume up to 11. It does so with great leather, and the soles on the newer ones are pretty great, too.
For most of us, having grown up with some fragment of sneaker culture playing a role in our lives, this shoe represents a graduation of sorts. It's extreme, it's over the top and it's also a commentary on sneaker styling in general. Rick himself said that when he was in the gym back in the day, he always noticed that the guys who lifted the heaviest had crazy hightops. Big, oversized tongues, glorious padding, the whole works. His idea was to trump every card in the sneaker playbook and make a "turbocharged" (his words) version of the venerable high top trainer.
Rick's shoe is a very natural bridge for us here, it's a midpoint between the sneaker and street-borne cultures of our youth and the high fashion we are learning to idolize.