Cheapo.Perched at the corner of ugly and awesome, brothel creepers are a footwear curiosity we readily ride for. Not because CDG or Yohji might adore them, nor because Chloe Sevigny made a pair lovingly topped with fake fur for Opening Ceremony--it's just something about their jolie-laide chunkiness that we've always liked. This season Scandinavian vulcanized vul·ca·nize tr.v. vul·ca·nized, vul·ca·niz·ing, vul·ca·niz·es To improve the strength, resiliency, and freedom from stickiness and odor of (rubber, for example) by combining with sulfur or other additives in the presence of heat shoe wizards Cheapo cheap·o Slang adj. Cheap. n. pl. cheap·os One who is cheap. release the Brick, a shoe that's part creeper creeper, common name for members of a family of small, inconspicuous birds related to wrens and nuthatches. They are found in wooded regions of the temperate Northern Hemisphere. , part plimsoll plim·soll also plim·sol or plim·sole n. Chiefly British A rubber-soled cloth shoe; a sneaker. [Probably from the resemblance of its mudguard to a Plimsoll mark. (our other shoe obsession) and totally brilliant. The Cheapo design philosophy is built on what they call "technotopia"--"a moving border somewhere between nature and technology." And yes dear Swedes, we might just be moving borders this summer to cop a pair. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] CHIOMA NNADI cheapo.se |
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