/fa/ - Fashion

>>14926989
Vintage is in right now desu, wish adidas would get on the vintage wave cause they have a lot of top tier vintage designs that need to get produced again.

Also, tonnes of people are buying those new hideous air maxes, normies have no taste.

>>14926989
Janoski Air Max.

>>14927032
Where have you been, Adidas has been re-releasing their classics for a while now in different colors too. Right now I'm wearing sambas with green stripes for example, and they also heavily pushed their Spezial last year around this time
>>14926989
Most new shoes are just clown tier, it makes more sense to rely on older models. Not to mention a lot of their shoes like the Air Force 1 are popular among highschool girls right now

Thinking of getting some vapor max soon

>>14927292
Lol

>>14927292
Nice trainers fuck what these virgins say

>>14926989
Nike has been maintaining their brand image off of old models since 2005. Phil Knight stepped down in 2004 and it's been a downhill slide in terms of innovation and quality since then.

They make tons of money off crap like Monarchs, No-name forgettable crap like initiators, cheap team basketball shoes... they had a hit with Roshes a few years back and the 270 has done very well with the masses...but there's been no real innovation like there was pre-04 when Knight was at the helm. Just re-hashed old ideas, bigger Air Bubbles and tons and tons of retros/re-releases.

Nike has a stable of classics and they've sustained their notoriety brand image through age old models and nostalgia for well over a decade. Nobody gives a fuck about their new releases and even half of those are reiterations or reinterpretations of classic 20+ year old designs.

Nike doesn't care anymore. They don't have to, people still buy their shit. I have no idea how they sustain themselves on this business model but the nostalgia factor and hype associated with some models is enough I suppose. The prices have gone up, the quality has gone waaay down but people still eat it up. Myself included.

>>14927600
Me again
>>14926989
>when was the last time they released a new shoe design that was actually good?

To answer this.... I'd say the last shoe they had that made MAJOR waves in the industry, was the SHOX lineup in 2000. This is the last innovation that completley deviated from anything a brand had done before, looked extremely radical and different, and spawned a slew of imitations from competing brands.

i wish i could get my hands on some nike undercovers sail in black

React Element 87 had potential in 2018, especially after the Undercover models. But then Nike stopped caring about them for some reason.

>>14927292
Hard

>>14926989
you could say the same about new balance, asics, puma, and adidas.

>>14927600
they got some dope collabs tho w/ Jerry Lorenzo and Errolson Hugh so there's some innovation there

Pretty much every undercover in recent memory has been good, especially the peg. trail

>>14928366
Just got the Undercover x Nike cargos (black) and now I want 'em in tan...fuck I love these things so much. Jun Takahashi's collabs are so slept on in comparison to all the shit being done with everyone else

>>14928211
at least adidas has yeezy

>>14926989
Sneakers are mostly for people who are in Jr High and High School, and people wearing them to exercise (and subsequently care more about features like support). They don't NEED to innovate, because normal people only care about them for 4-6 years.

>>14929438
This. No one over 25 uses sneakers, really.

>>14929438
>>14929460

>>14929461
I'm not saying that you're a worse person if you like/collect sneakers. I'm just explaining why they don't sink a ton of R&D into creating new and innovative products. Nike makes those things in Asian sweatshops using inexpensive materials and cheap labor, and sells them for $200, with a fanbase that is constantly being replaced. The collector is niche in comparison to that group.

>>14929438
Normal people don't stop caring about sneakers throughout their lifetime. It's not the 1800s anymore. Wake up.

>>14926989
100% this. I didn't have a single pair of nike's in my collection until I bought these proto react Jordans. They looked good in the advert, but when they arrived, the color looked absolutely gaudy and the entirety of the design was stupid nigger garbage. The only redeeming quality of the shoe is that I can return it immediately. Just don't do it.

>>14929777
Cringe

I would say that the vapormaxes are a nice design but not very wearable. Also liked the react elements

>>14929777
If you don't have any Nikes, i wouldn't call that a sneaker collection. It's the greatest company of all time, when it comes to sneakers.

You ordered safety orange sneakers and when you received safety orange sneakers, you realized, you fucked up. Good, but maybe, just maybe, it's not the fault of the footwear company.

You ordered a recent Jordan model in safety orange and you're surprised, that you received "stupid nigger garbage"...No comment.

>>14929777
Before expanding the pic, I thought they were Crocs.

>>14929762
I don't know anyone who gives a solitary shit about them. Then again, my friends are white and blue collar people, not people who spend their lives in the service industry without managing anything. Hell, even the nurses I know don't give a shit about their sneakers beyond pure comfort.

>>14927105
>Where have you been, Adidas has been re-releasing their classics for a while now in different colors too. Right now I'm wearing sambas with green stripes for example, and they also heavily pushed their Spezial last year around this time
But it's only shoes, their vintage style jackets/sweatshirts range is extremely lacking.

>>14929868
And how is that an answer to anything? Many people live their lives inside a bubble and don't have the slighest idea about what's happening outside their little bubble called greater world.

Why do people still have this misconception that only unsuccessful people aka "people who spend their lives in the service industry without managing anything" wear sneakers? Wake up, it's not the 1800s anymore. Welcome to the 2nd decade of the 21th century.

Talking about sneaker culture without Nike is like talking about fastfood chains without McDonalds.

>>14927600
>crap
> Monarchs
Kys

>>14929908
>How is that an answer to anything
Not him, but he said white collar people he knows don't care, and blue collar people he knows don't care, and that nurses he knows don't care beyond comfort.

This reflects my experience, as well. Most white collar workers care about oxfords. Most blue collar workers care about work boots.

>It's not the 1800's anymore.
Yeah, you already said that. That doesn't magically prove that most adults give a shit about sneakers, because they almost never have occasion to wear them (and those that do often concern themselves with comfort and support more than style).

>>14927600
They make trail runners and I have to wonder why, if the quality is like their other shoes they are WAY behind the competitors in the market, and charging far more too

>>14929852
Good take anon, Nike owns probably 8/10 of the most iconic sneaker (if not all modern shoe) designs ever, orange sneaker guy blames them for his bad taste

>>14931208
this