This new model is intuitive – easy to use, easy to remove – and shows how design, innovation and engineering can come together to meet an ambitious mission: the creation of a shoe that can be put on and taken off without the need for hands.

Behind the smooth movement of the shoe is a double-stable hinge that allows the shoe to be secured while it is fully open or fully closed.

Sophisticated and accessible solutions, such as the Nike GO FlyEase, are emblematic of the “best is temporary” mentality that drives Nike FlyEase technology. Since its inception, these technologies have been used in many styles of footwear, from basketball and running to sportswear.
Fencing champion Bebe Vio, the muse of Nike GO FlyEase, says, “I usually spend so much time putting myself in my shoes. With the Nike GO FlyEase, all I have to do is put my feet in it and jump on it. Shoes are a new kind of technology, not only for adaptive athletes, but also for everyone’s real life.”

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Jo Malone London

No holiday season is the same without a little something from Jo Malone London. The brands Pomegranate Noir Candle evokes festive memories with its earthy, aromatic wood scent with undertones of ruby-rich Pomegranate, Raspberry and Plum juice.

Pomegranate noir travel candle, £23, available at Lookfantastic.com.

Louis Vuitton

The classic Louis Vuitton cropped biker jacket returns but with an embellished tattoo Monogram. Wear on its own or paired with the matching mini skirt for a completed look.

Tattoo monogram biker jacket, £4,550, available at Louisvuitton.com.

Moschino

The M bag from Moschino is designed with an M closure and gold galvanic chain shoulder strap – a perfect holiday gift.

M shoulder bag, £472, available at Moschino.com.

Hermès

Nothing is quite like receiving a Christmas gift from Hermès, the cream Leather Bracelet decorated with four-faceted medor studs and adorned with a ring, is the perfect accessory to wear during the Autumn/Winter months.

Leather bracelet, £600, available at Hermes.com.

Chanel
No 5 shower gel, £42, available at Chanel.com.

Nike
Nike air max 2090, £129.95, available at Nike.com.

Gucci Beauty
Rouge à Lèvres lunaison lipstick, £38, available at Gucci.com.

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In recent years, we’ve seen the ‘dad shoe’ go from daggy to designer: chunky, comfortable sneakers like the New Balance 990 line or the Nike Air Monarch. Once considered the pinnacle of poor taste, ‘dad shoes’ have become cool now – although if you try and explain that to a real dad, you’ll get met with incredulity. Even high fashion brands like Balenciaga, Versace and Gucci have gotten in on the ‘dad shoe’ trend.

Now it seems like the next big trend is trail shoes worn as casualwear. In the same way that dad shoes’ functional aesthetic is so appealing, the minimalistic technical nature of trail runners or hiking shoes has attracted the attention of the young and beautiful. And Nike’s noticed.

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Nike has come out guns blazing with a new trail runner-inspired shoe as part of their new ISPA line. Enter the ISPA OverReact Sandal: a shoe that might just be so ugly it’s actually beautiful.

Not quite a sandal, not quite a sneaker, these chunky monkeys are certainly divisive, to say the least. Like anything limited Nike puts out, they’re sure to sell like hotcakes, but not everyone’s on the ISPA hype train: commenters on Instagram coming up with gems like “if throw up was a shoe“, “love the treading in chewing gum look” and “who made these – Robinson Crusoe?”

Nike already has a technical trail running imprint called ACG (All Conditions Gear) but they’ve decided to really push the boat out with ISPA (Improvise, Scavenge, Protect and Adapt). Where ACG is focused on the great outdoors, ISPA is focused on “improving an athlete’s interaction with the built environment.”

ISPA’s sneakers combine aggressive styling with some of Nike’s latest product innovations, such as their new React foam technology that forms the OverReact Sandal’s chunky midsole. Nike should be applauded for pushing boundaries, but we’re not entirely convinced of the technical superiority of some of their gimmicks – take a look at their Road Warrior hightop, for example.

Techwear and outdoor gear have long had a place in mainstream fashion: Patagonia, The North Face, Arc’Teryx, Moncler, Kathmandu, Napapijri… The list goes on. Anoraks, pullovers and fleeces are all de rigeur in streetwear these days, but trail runners have historically been eschewed. Now, technical footwear brands like Salomon, La Sportiva or Danner are coming into vogue, and the sportswear giants want in on the action.

Nike’s not the only offender when it comes to apeing trail style like this: Adidas has been riding the gravy train that’s been Kanye West’s Yeezy sub-brand for years, which regularly puts out shoes that look like a bizarre combination of trail runners and alien vomit, like the Yeezy Boost 380 ‘Blue Oats’ that dropped last week.

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Let’s not be so quick to dismiss these experimental offerings, however. These radical sneakers play an important role in the development of fashion as well as athletics: these limited models are testbeds for new technologies that diffuse down into more mainstream runners.

Nike’s React foam is commonplace on their ISPA and high-end sneakers, but will eventually filter down to more accessible models. Adidas’ Boost foam was first showcased in Yeezy models before appearing in shoes at lower price points. What seems outlandish now might become commonplace in a few years’ time: sure, the OverReact Sandals might be ugly to some, but to others, they represent an exciting look at the future of footwear.

Strange times indeed.

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In what has undoubtedly become one of the most anticipated yearly launches of Pride season, Nike and Converse have announced their 2020 product lineup. Among the offerings, the brands have incorporated a 10-color, all-inclusive Pride flag.

The drop will include a nine-piece collection of sneakers and accessories from Converse, as well as three footwear styles from Nike. Nike is offering up its Air Force 1, the Air Max 2090, and the Air Deschutz, now done with rainbow colors. The tab of the Air Max features a new all-inclusive Pride Flag inspired by the More Color, More Pride flag launched in Philadelphia in 2017. That original flag, designed in partnership with Amber Hikes, added black and brown stripes to the six-color Pride flag to symbolize its inclusion of Black and brown queer and trans communities.

Nike’s update, which runs through the Converse brand, adds two additional stripes: pink and baby blue to represent trans inclusivity. These stripes are notably featured in the Trans Pride Flag.

Converse is using this update to inspire a number of designs across a collection of Chuck 70s and Chuck Taylor All Stars. Other options also include the More Color, More Pride flag in its original eight-color design, as well as the six-color Pride flag, and the Trans Pride Flag.

Converse will release its range (which includes t-shirts and a hat) on May 29 while Nike will release globally June 19.

The projects are being alongside the company’s latest charitable efforts. This year, the brands are supporting more than 20 organizations that focus on LGBTQ+ advocacy in sports, create safe spaces, and elevating the history of the community. Grants, funded by Nike and Converse, administered by the Charities Aid Foundation of America will assist organizations like the LGBT Center of Los Angeles, Campus Pride, GLBT Historical Societ Museum, Portland Frontrunners, and more.

Converse specifically will be working with organizations like It Gets Better Project, Ali Forney Center, BAGLY, and OUT MetroWest. Over the past five years, the company has donated over $1 million in connection with its Pride efforts.

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Nike unveils the Air Max Plus 97 hybrid sneaker in a sleek monochromatic scheme. The latest iteration features an all-over tonal black colorway with reflective accents on the wave-like uppers to boot. As far as construction goes, the shoe is equipped with a leather and mesh upper combination alongside the foam midsole with Max-Air cushioning for unparalleled comfort.

Peep the kicks above and cop one now at select retailers such as Capsule Toronto for $177 USD. Elsewhere in footwear, check out the New Balance Made In The USA 998 with pony hair.

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As it so often is, history was made in Berlin on September 16. Kenyan runner Eliud Kipchoge smashed the marathon world record with a time of 2:01:39. To put this astonishing feat into context, that’s the equivalent of running 100 meters in 17.3 seconds and continuing at the same pace for another 26.2 miles.

The fact he took 78 seconds off the previous best set by Dennis Kimetto in 2014 is staggering in itself, but Kipchoge running more than 10 miles of the race alone after his pacemakers dropped off earlier than intended will see his achievement go down as one of the most iconic moments in sporting history.

Kipchoge, 33, is now regarded as the greatest long-distance runner of all time. He has won 10 of his last 11 marathons, including an Olympic gold in Rio de Janeiro and three victories in the London marathon. His victory in Berlin last month was his third in the German capital.

To top it off, he also seems like a genuinely wise, happy, and humble kind of guy. A recent New York Times profile tells of how he never ducks chores at his training camp high in the Kenyan hills: “He is a wealthy man, but he still scrubs the toilet.”

But his record-breaking run in the German capital has thrown up a few interesting questions. They don’t relate to performance-enhancing drugs — dozens of Kenyan runners have tested positive for banned substances, but Kipchoge’s record is clean and few would suspect him of involvement — but they do concern what does or does not constitute an unfair advantage.

Kipchoge had something most other runners in the field did not: Nike’s Vaporfly 4% running shoe.

Nike says the $250 shoe, which was conceived as part of the brand’s ambitious Breaking2 project (also featuring Kipchoge) to attempt a two-hour marathon, is named 4% because it offers an average 4 percent running economy compared with other top runners. Or in other words, how much energy runners use while running in them.

If you’re not a runner, that might seem small or inconsequential, but even small improvements in running economy can equate to shaving off minutes, not just seconds, over long distances.

It’s an astonishing claim, and one that could easily be dismissed as yet more marketing hype to sell more shoes. But this time it actually appears to be true.

The New York Times recently analyzed data from around 500,000 marathon and half marathon running times — taken from public race reports and fitness app Strava — over the last four years. It found that “runners in Vaporflys ran 3 to 4 percent faster than similar runners wearing other shoes, and more than 1 percent faster than the next-fastest racing shoe.”

The findings back up the earlier Nike-funded study at the University of Colorado, published in peer-reviewed research journal Sports Medicine, that discovered the 4 percent increase in running economy and gave the shoe its name.

If you’re a runner who takes races seriously, it’s likely you’re at least considering getting the Vaporfly. The efficiency improvement could in theory be worth more than seven minutes to a three-hour marathoner, or nearly 10 minutes to a four-hour marathoner.

It could arguably turn out to be the biggest innovation in athletics since rubberized artificial running tracks replaced crushed cinders — and for that Nike deserves tremendous credit.

But what does it mean for Kipchoge’s record-breaking Berlin run using the shoes? Well, as sport scientist Ross Tucker pointed out after the race, if what Nike says and what the NYT found are true, it essentially explains the record-shattering run.

Kipchoge improved Kimetto’s record by 1.07 percent, which suggests Kipchoge and Kimetto were equal runners wearing unequal shoes. Lets Run‘s Jonathan Gault noted that, if you go by the New York Times study, you could even argue that Kimetto is the superior runner: “The Vaporflys were 1 percent faster than the next-fastest shoe in the study, but they were about 2.5 percent faster than the adidas Adizero Adios — the shoes Kimetto ran

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On the hit list this week is a decent mix of ridiculously clean silhouettes featuring unique designs in very wearable hues. Taking out the top spot is Adidas’ EQT Support Ultra PK in white which provides a very cool alternative to the usual NMD and Ultraboost models.

Not to be left out of the game is Nike who are doing bold things with the re-interpretation of two of their most popular sneaker designs – the Sock Dart and Air Force 1.

Filling out the rest of the hottest drops from the week are New Balance with a bleached variant of their 580 model and Asics with two colourways of their Gel Kayano and Gel Respector sneakers.

Who doesn’t love a kick on?

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First up is a brand new colourway for Nike’s elusive Flyknit Racer which will soon be dropping in a wolf grey and red combo. Joining that will be the Air Zoom Pegasus ’92 and rugged SFB Leather NSW “Oatmeal & Linen”.

Joining the Nike mix is also a new Air Max Zero colourway along with the low utility version of the Presto ensuring it can be worn all year round in any weather.

Asics also have honourable mentions this week with some daring colourways of their Gel Lyte series along with a super clean example of their Gel Kayano trainer.

Adidas just sneak in there this week with a cool gum sole version of their NMD City Sock sneaker.

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The Holiday season is officially here. Now would be the time to start gearing up and today the good folks over at NikeLab are back at it, adding to the Holiday style selection with a new range of cold weather inspired gear. Today we get our first look at NikeLab’s Holiday 2016 ACG Collection. This stylish and functional range offers up comfort, versatility and weather protection in both footwear and apparel.

The line-up features the NikeLab ACG Alpine Jacket and NikeLab ACG Funnel Hoody boasting higher collars and adjustable hoods to keep you well guarded. We also find an internal strap system that allows each piece to be carried like a backpack. The new range also offers up the new NikeLab ACG Scaiter that is host to a new “wrap and tuck” closing system. The new system allows for adjustments to different temperatures. Check out the eye-catching new range in the images below and speak your thoughts on it after the jump. Stay tuned for much more from NikeLab coming very soon!

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Wheat coloring has been known to be rather popular in footwear during the fall/winter season and Nike Sportswear is set to deliver at the right time. Almost similar to last year’s drop, some of your favorite Air Max silhouettes will don slightly different wheat shading throughout each upper this time around. The offering is comprised of the Nike Air Max 95, Air Max 1, Air Max 90 and new addition in the Air Max BW.

Each model hosts suede materials throughout in addition to Nike and Air Max logo hits on their respective tongue and heels. There’s no specific release date as to when we should expected these to return to shelves, but stick with us and we’ll keep you updated with developments upon availability.

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