Tokyo's Most Sought After Sneakers I Sole Origins

Tokyo is about 45 minutes away if you get thirsty at any moment there's a machine right there like every ten feet basically and I always wondered why you can't have that in New York you know I asked my wife was like man why don't we have this in New York and she was like Neal you know damn well that if we had that in New York these machines would be gang robbed every five minutes people break bus stops out there for just cause it's a Tuesday so yeah you can't have nice stuff like that the Japanese they really considered sneakers in a way that no one else really did up until that point the Japanese culture in general they are the best at preserving culture they really dive into it even more than probably where it originated from era months 95 hey buddy sano nakatsu gah Nihon notable cynic authority 19 ocean voyage - Chris today Jordan cuts an Ankeny home kanishka Carolyn I gotta be on the job you take seriously no comment of sneaker culture basically you I have ever been to Tokyo before I've never shopped in Harajuku I'm hoping to actually start some of that today I feel like one thing I've noticed is instead of stores expanding and getting bigger they just open more stores and there might be two or three or four or five of this one shop you know in a few block radius in the same neighborhood yeah undefeated small version very curated we have supreme up here on top of neighborhood it looks like neighborhood doesn't wake up quite so early perhaps sick bite you know everything around here is just amazing there's just sneakers everywhere I love this car heart building like this looks like something out of Star Wars I don't even understand it but I love it there's nothing like this anywhere I've been to all these wild little shops like I don't even know what they sell but I want to find out and I'm gonna end up wanting stuff that I didn't even know existed like ten minutes ago it just makes you want to spend all my money on Air Max 95 the moment that really starting to collect sneakers and see the value I figured that out in Japan I saw these these little stores that had all these shrink-wrap dead stock Jordans Jordan wants especially and I was looking at a miss like drooling I think Tokyo there was this parallel mirror New York City vibe that was being created out of here at the same time in 2010 I remember going in a store and you know shouts of Clark Kent but Clark Kent's picture was right there like front and center I'm the first hip-hop DJ to ever go there when you walk into their stores and you see that they still have craziness on their walls it's because they're thinking what's gonna make what we have in our store better than when you go to a store in New York their appreciation for what we think is important is outstanding so they do it better [Music] Tokyo has always been a sneaker Mecca because Nike just did stuff just for deferred to Japan it was likes own separate entity that's where our sneaker our international sneaker culture really came from you know they just helped us look at a product in a way that no one else had really considered it before the Japanese shopping experience it's unlike anything else it's amazing and a lot of it undefeated like was inspired by that they interpreted something that America did in America's reinterpreting back becomes like this like awesome moment Tokyo Seneca Curitiba moto moto so no intention on free car no I stole cocaine started stole a taraji munakata mist high-tech of touchstone mosquito David Ando Imam I don't know this is origin of where that specialty sneaker almost like to the point where you don't want to even take it out the box started this is all just dead stock I mean some of this from the 90s some of it might go as far back as the late 80s some of this a little more recent this is amazing so pair of 180s so it's the Air Force 180 is a Charles Barkley shoe that he would have worn in the Olympics for the dream team they just don't make it someone would have been very excited to have these back in 1992 but unfortunately these probably weren't more than that maybe a little bit and they won't be worn now while the packaging and stuff is great and Jordan is doing better now Nikes doing better now at trying to refresh some of this what's inside my Chucky it's kind of unfortunate and this is what happens to older stuff if you just let it sit you know this is an original pair of Air Jordan eights from 1993 looks like they've never been worn and now they never will be I mean these missiles just completely fall apart conceivably these can be fixed I mean you could not fixed but if you find a donor pair of recent retros you can get the souls swapped on and still wear them but you know it'll kind of never be the same again so that's from 93 the next year this would be an Air Jordan too retro hopefully if it's what it says from 1994 this is the first time they ended up ret rolling Jordans at all and if you look you know the outsole is separating this whole midsole is cracked if you took this out of the box the whole thing would just fall apart it's nice I mean it's still the original paper and the original everything but these shoes just don't survive wearing them helps they might still fall apart maybe but at least you will have worn them the first time [Music] voltage even on tomahto mikonos todo de so hemo-pneumo stereo a dead man taco taco unit beauty event obokata mono tone and imagination in Romani purposefully donate the you know de Senado totemo not even design design staccato cheetah Alastair so Nantes Conestoga ITT initiative appeared more Fuji disaster remaster such as him in Tunisia Nevada momentum internatinal feminism in R&D no meter taking of Olga began a condo Tsukuba economist window tavern double penetration or sneaker culture they're in total kill no cop or ahankaara huzzah huzzah huzzah [Music] tolkien all an octave and only seen Sunday me boots touchy yeah otama circuit there another Hasmonean to negotiate me since 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don't Heights and this okay this what I think of Japan when I think of sneakers you know it's like all these USA made New Balance like just this and specifically like this bluish gray you know with gray they're very classic like even down to the laces like these look like 80s shoelaces this is an original style Cortez and I guess this is a women size or a kid size but like you know this is like the Forrest Gump shoe this is this is shoo that started everything for Nike they were making shoes back then in Japan they were making them in the US I feel like here there's just such an appreciation for just that construction just the way it's made this is a made in Japan shoe you know there's just something about this that is just that much iller than anything you're gonna find in the u.s. it's taking something that was you know I don't want to call it a throwaway product in the US because it wasn't but I feel like at some point things like the Chuck Taylor got devalued you know it became just uh oh it's a cheap shoe you can get it and here it's like there was such appreciation for things like that that it was never allowed to die it was never allowed to become like less than something it was and that's the last pair you have I'll take them thank you I could try their stuff on but those are perfect and I'll try stuff on upstairs or in other stores I'm not quite done yet but that one's awesome the chip and Emma Cho chikun state ANOVA Illuminati - they disappear basketball shoes Moochie she's addicted Jordan GG otogi area new treatment model very specific need share your map really possible tomorrow she's 92 de la coruña Jordan estrellita Johanna oh math EOG modern is reached and relative a poor boy too much light coral top de grado the till the Corrado Tina Turner Jordana for trespassing with a median age token motion idea to correct angle Tokyo character tilted ananda gandha the hot chicken tacos chicken parmesan chickens are holding a little an ammonia is show you can 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day music aku stay with a hockey initially no catalytic are so in all key coconut investor mother told you never are sneak can touch their ezio Moya won't damage the land excite needles Missoula a topology definition and money daisuki dr. stern our mother didn't forget the you know join up it's a massive social media to assign to the Temasek I you they more arsenic our motto be nice to penalize them Master kite ought to again will not do you know Maruyama to another tuxedo [Music] my yoni but cannot see me that'll jog in the said about my June and then what thoughts in ecology of Nineveh I think we're at a interesting point and sneaker culture it's like 13 year-olds drop in $1,500 for sneakers that I just don't believe you if you're telling me you know why you're wearing this what originally wasn't really based on capitalism what originally was about style and personal choice and history I don't know if I think we might have lost something that unfortunately before if you saw someone wearing a certain shoe you knew that they knew something or that they had been somewhere and now you don't have that certainty anymore now it's just a matter of who has the most money in the grand scheme of things you know yet you have the kids who are gonna get everything and are just gonna add it to their stacks and not worry about it or post it on Instagram and you know brag about it but it's not the same even though the Internet has made that all possible and made it possible for everyone to get it everyone can't leave here and there's something different about buying it here than there is about just buying it on the Internet when we go back to story it's just as important for the person who buys it to have a story than it is for the brand to tell a story over this store to tell a story and if you come here and you buy something you have that story and that's important too [Music] you

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Id: kx9uA08UcgQ

Length: 20min 14sec (1214 seconds)

Published: Tue Oct 30 2018