Puma is releasing a set of sneakers to celebrate the Chinese Moon Festival. The Chinese Moon Festival (also known as the “Mid-Autumn,” “Lantern,” and “Mooncake” Festival) is the celebration of abundance and togetherness and dates back over 3,000 years to China’s Zhou Dynasty. It is the second most important celebration of the Chinese calendar next [...]

Check out these new tweed new balances 564 perfect for the fall

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These New Balance 1600 s are a collaboration with Japanese design outifit Green Label Relaxing. These are ultra exclusive available only in Asia
photo courtesy of zozo.

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Blazing the trail from Nike is the SUPER BLAZER HI PREMIUM edition. These Super come in 7 different color ways with a Nike Free 5.0 hybrid sole. The release dates are unknown but should be rolling out by Oct. The Splatter Paint Super Blazer Hi Premium are sure to make the biggest splash.

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Alife is showing off their pretty smart Fall ‘07 line. A total of twelve new styles that completely run the gamut. Available now. We break down the whole collection for you after the jump.

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Well here it is: the next installment of the ever evolving fashion collaboration between adidas and Yohji Yamamoto. The concentration of this year’s Y-3 F/W collection is on innovative features and materials, not flashy colors and accessories (focal points of previous releases). Much of the line up looks great. Simple and sophisticated with a fashionable [...]

Two sneak peeks at forthcoming offerings from Upper Playground. For one (”Skull” above, top) Upper Playground signed on artist Alex Pardee whose CV includes Warner Bros., Hurley International, and RIDE snowboards. The other (”Faces” above, bottom) is by artist Sam Flores whose work has been featured in such magazines as Mass Appeal, Juxtapoz, Urb and [...]

With the silhouette of 60s sex icon Jane Fonda stamped on the heel, these sultry new Nike SB Zoom Air Regimes pay homage to the 1968 cult-classic sci-fi movie, Barbarella. The film, set in the year 40,000, stars Jane Fonda as the heroine Barbarella who’s mission it is to stop evil scientist Durand Durand while [...]

The Joe Strummer Dunk Low, based on the deceased music icon’s 1966 Fender Telecaster guitar, will come in two looks: the “Before”—representing the Clash singer’s guitar new and untarnished, and the “After”—representing the guitar after years on the road. Joe Strummer’s guitar now rests in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland, Ohio. [...]

Onitsuka Tiger has announced four forthcoming collections (two a year for the next two years) with tokidoki, Italian artist Simone Legno’s colorful world of sprightly characters influenced by Japanese art and culture. This will be an interesting collaboration between a sneaker rooted in Japanese culture and history and an artist rooted in the Italian interpretation [...]

Holy high-tops, Batman! Ubiq has released these instant collectors’ item kicks for the Dark Knight lover in all of us. These Fatimas are covered in comic book print and come decked out in black and white strips (above) and colored (after the jump). The Batman sneakers are packed in a special limited box and are [...]

After much anticipation, the Puma / No Mas First Round collaboration will be released this Saturday, September the 8th. These shoes are EXTREMELY limited. There will be a mere 48 pairs released worldwide and all of them only at Classic Kicks in New York City. You can check out the special website for the [...]