The Stan Smith and their legacy multiplied by millions. Everyone has one or infinite definite memories laced to them.
Those beaten up Stan stand with pride in the sneakers section of your shoe closet. Every time you look at them a picture, snapshot of that field trip you took in 10th grade, the smell of freshly baked spanakopita of that summer you ended up in Greece.
The revealing moment when you see a piece of your life as a rewinded movie behind a garment is when you got the fashion bug.
That's when you know you are the proud owner of pieces in your closet that will stay there forever and survive no matter how many times you move, sizes you change, years are gone by.
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Converse, that size 25 Levis 501, your first Porselli, the Panama hat, the black biker jacket, the Burberry trench coat. It's a mini museum of yourself, a retrospective to dive into with a sigh, a teary eye and a Monalisa smile all together. Nobody will take them away from you.
This spring the award goes to the Stan Smith Adidas Originals. They have walked miles from their birth, we may or not still have them.
The new generation has evolved.
Bloggers wear them, they are featured online and in magazines as the seasonal trend.
They have their own Twitter handle and they have a life on their own. That is why a series of limited editions have started trickling down, with meticulous science.
And then the bomb. As if we weren't excited enough for having put our hands on the embossed reptile Consortiums and having found the ostrich version at Dover Street Market, Pharrell announces a collaboration.
The man who auctioned for charity and sold for $44 K a Vivienne Westwood hat, opens the imagination to infinite possibilities. At the press conference he talked about reinterpreting the Stans and the tracksuit with the 3 stripes and, for the conscious consumer, using fabrics recycled from ocean's plastic debris.
Are we hyped enough?
Wait until you see this: did you see him wearing Custom Crystal Swarowski Stans at SNL??? Bedazzled! He only knows what we are set to expect from such a statement.
Custom Crystal Swaroski Stan