adidas slave sneakers

[seemiyah]

Re: adidas slave sneakers

They are not going to sell them any more....
<span style="font-weight: bold">
Adidas pulls ‘shackle’ shoe after outcry over racism</span>

Company won’t release the JS Roundhouse Mid sneaker despite defending design


Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/life-style/fa...6#ixzz1yFGpop6h

[Gen]

Re: adidas slave sneakers

not only the importance of focus groups but

I remember thinking this morning after the announcement to scrap it that they clearly don't have any black shoe designers at the company and that they need to get with some diversity up in there.



<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Xavier</div><div class="ubbcode-body">All I have to say is focus group...focus group...focus group...companies never learn.. </div></div>

[Gen]

Re: adidas slave sneakers

here is a picture of the creative genius behind the sneakers (on the right) Jeremy Scott

unnu see him homeboy in the middle though ? see this is what happen when yuh think you are &quot;down&quot; and &quot;hip&quot;.

yuh fly past yuh blasted nest like gwyneth and the &quot;n&quot; word

[Gen]

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at a coachella party. 2nd from left

this was just too funny not to post for the hip hop peeps.

[Gen]

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another design from jeremy

[Gen]

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by jeremy scott

[kia027]

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[j-kid]

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Is nat shackles.

Is ah security feature, soh dem noh tief yuh shoes while yuh ah sleep. All di wearer need fi add, is ah good pad lack.

[RichD]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: J kid</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Is nat shackles.

Is ah security feature, soh dem noh tief yuh shoes while yuh ah sleep. All di wearer need fi add, is ah good pad lack. </div></div>

is the Homeless market dem a cater to?

[j-kid]

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Yes man. Cho, unnu totally missed di point ah who him target market was.

[Derek]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Xavier</div><div class="ubbcode-body">All I have to say is focus group...focus group...focus group...companies never learn.. </div></div>

They probably DID have a focus group, but it wasn't demograhically representative of their target audience for the sneakers.

[Gen]

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<span style="font-style: italic">adidas had planned to sell them for 350.00 ??? people really a buy sneakers fi that amount a money </span>

<span style="font-style: italic">I remember the vogue article</span>

When Sneakers and Race Collide
By AUSTIN CONSIDINE

TO Jeremy Scott, the rebel designer from Los Angeles, the plastic shackles that he designed for a pair of orange-and-purple Adidas sneakers were inspired by a toy monster from the 1980s.

<span style="font-weight: bold">The designer Jeremy Scott said his inspiration was a toy monster from the 1980s.</span>

But to critics like the Rev. Jesse Jackson, the sneakers looked like “slave shoes.”

“The attempt to commercialize and make popular more than 200 years of human degradation, where blacks were considered three-fifths human by our Constitution, is offensive, appalling and insensitive,” Mr. Jackson said in a statement Monday.

Hours after that statement was released, Adidas said it was canceling the $350 shoe, the JS Roundhouse Mid.

News of the cancellation prompted widespread coverage, with plenty of finger wagging. <span style="font-weight: bold">“The shoe design appears to glorify so-called ‘thug wear,’ ” said Mary Mitchell, a columnist for The Chicago Sun-Times, who added, “The JS Roundhouse Mid shoe exploits the same ignorance that made showing one’s underwear in public a fashion trend when it really is an assault on public decency.”</span>

But is it racist? In addition to the condemnations, images of the sneaker (which were posted on Adidas’s Facebook page last Thursday) received more than 38,000 likes through Wednesday, and many of the 4,300-plus comments were positive.

“They’re cool shoes, and some people might get offended, but that was in the past,” one commenter wrote.

In a statement, Adidas said, “We apologize if people are offended by the design” and noted that Mr. Scott’s previous designs for the brand had included panda heads and Mickey Mouse. The shackle design is “nothing more than the designer Jeremy Scott’s outrageous and unique take on fashion and has nothing to do with slavery.”

Mr. Scott did not respond to a request for comment, but he defended his design on Twitter, where he posted a photo of what he indicated was the shoe’s true inspiration: a stuffed toy animal called My Pet Monster with nearly identical orange shackles. “My work has always been inspired by cartoons, toys &amp; my childhood,” he wrote.

Among the fashion cognoscenti, Mr. Scott is known for his outlandish club-kid look, and has dressed celebrities like Katy Perry, Lady Gaga and Nicki Minaj. Though he owns his own label, Mr. Scott also collaborates with mainstream labels like Adidas, Swatch and Longchamp that want a pop of color. “People don’t want quiet fashion from me,” he said in a New York Times interview last year. “They want the whole nine yards.”

Some fashion blogs and media outlets have rushed to Mr. Scott’s defense. “Jeremy Scott is not racist,” Foster Kamer wrote for The New York Observer. “He just enjoys ’90s kids cartoons.”

The Styleite contributor Rachel Tension also defended Mr. Scott, saying that critics often see “racism where racism isn’t necessarily hanging around.”

<span style="font-weight: bold">Still, fashion is certainly not insulated from charges of racism. Last August, Vogue Italia published an article entitled “Slave Earrings,” citing “the decorative traditions of the women of colour who were brought to the southern United States during the slave trade.” Editors quickly blamed it on a bad translation; the text accompanying the online slide show was removed, its headline replaced with “Ethnic Earrings.”</span>

Adidas might have tempered the criticism if it had better acknowledged the misunderstanding instead of merely invoking Mr. Scott’s “outrageous and unique” style, said Monica L. Miller, an associate English professor at Barnard College and author of “Slaves to Fashion: Black Dandyism and the Styling of Black Diasporic Identity.”

Though the design’s offensiveness was most likely unintentional, it was still “shortsighted,” Dr. Miller said. “This is one of the legacies of living in a post-slavery and post-colonial world,” she added. “Talking about these moments honestly and openly will be the only way to reduce them in the future.”

here

[jah_yout]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: J kid</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Is nat shackles.

<span style="font-weight: bold">Is ah security feature</span>, soh dem noh tief yuh shoes while yuh ah sleep. All di wearer need fi add, is ah good pad lack. </div></div>


this guy on the left could have sure used a pair

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[Suesumba]

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they should have been in orange. more appropriate.