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Out of the Box: The Rise of Sneaker Culture
Bobbito Garcia
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Description for Out of the Box: The Rise of Sneaker Culture
Hardcover. Out of the Box: The Rise of Sneaker Culture showcases breakthrough sneaker's from the mid-nineteenth century for sports performance to present day cultural icon. Num Pages: 224 pages, 170 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: AKTH; JFCK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 266 x 310 x 25. Weight in Grams: 1834.
Out of the Box: The Rise of Sneaker Culture showcases breakthrough sneaker's from the mid-nineteenth century for sports performance to present day cultural icon. Drawn from collections including Adidas, Nike, Reebok, PUMA, and Converse archives, as well as private collectors such as those of hip-hop legend Run DMC, sneaker guru Bobbito Garcia, and Dee Wells of Obsessive Sneaker Disorder. This selection is richly contextualized with interviews and essays by design innovators, sneaker collectors, and cultural historians, creating a backdrop of the technical innovation, fashion trends, social history, and marketing campaigns that shaped the form over the past two centuries. ... Read more
Out of the Box: The Rise of Sneaker Culture showcases breakthrough sneaker's from the mid-nineteenth century for sports performance to present day cultural icon. Drawn from collections including Adidas, Nike, Reebok, PUMA, and Converse archives, as well as private collectors such as those of hip-hop legend Run DMC, sneaker guru Bobbito Garcia, and Dee Wells of Obsessive Sneaker Disorder. This selection is richly contextualized with interviews and essays by design innovators, sneaker collectors, and cultural historians, creating a backdrop of the technical innovation, fashion trends, social history, and marketing campaigns that shaped the form over the past two centuries. ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Rizzoli Publications
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Weight
1822g
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780847846603
SKU
V9780847846603
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Ref
99-15
About Bobbito Garcia
Bobbito Garcia is the leading authority on sneaker culture and author. He has directed a television show about sneakers on ESPN, collaborated with Nike, and his work is featured in the first college course on sneakers-Sneakerology 101. Acclaimed shoe historian Elizabeth Semmelhack is senior curator at the Bata Shoe Museum, Toronto. Darryl McDaniels is part of the pioneering hip-hop group ... Read more
Reviews for Out of the Box: The Rise of Sneaker Culture
A web of historical and cultural connections, Out of the Box draws people from all corners of the creative industry . . . [It] is a complex, incisive account of the sneaker's reinvention over two centuries of technology, marketing, fashion and social trends. -ISSUE MAGAZINE For those devotees . . . 'Out of the Box: The Rise ... Read more