There’s this movie out there called ‘Sideways’ that stars Paul Giamati as this wine snob going through some kind of mid-life crisis while also taking his best friend on a tour of some wineries in Nort
Aug 7, 2023
ICYMI: 7/17-7/21
Jul 21, 2023
Sneakerhead confessions
Jul 6, 2023
ICYMI: 6/26-6/30
Jul 1, 2023
I'll start out by saying that there is absolutely zero hate intended with this post…I’m more just asking the question because I am genuinely curious.
My first time seeing those @martine_rose Monarchs
Jun 28, 2023
(1/5) The (de)evolution of a sneakerhead...dropping in full on my substack next week
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The other day, as I was swimming through my closet trying to figure out what to do with yet *another* shipment
Jun 26, 2023
ICYMI: 6/19-6/23
Jun 23, 2023
The other day, as I was musing on the sheer absurdity of *sneaker waste* we are all part and parcel of, I came across this interesting article in Reuters about how they hid some trackers in some shoes
Jun 22, 2023
Being that the whole reason I started ‘The Sneaker Savant’ was to establish a grading standard for sneakers, maybe I should start posting some grading content huh?
On the first page I’ve showed you 4
Jun 22, 2023
ICYMI: 6/5-6/9
Jun 8, 2023
The funny thing is, the ONLY pair of Nike/JB sneakers I've ever seen with a handwritten tag were actually authentic samples and they were actually XI's.
But these?
These are an LOL.
May 13, 2023
Bored Ape Yacht Club x Sneaker Savant x Garrixon Studios x THIS SHOE DOES NOT EXIST
Apr 27, 2023
Quack quack…
I wonder what the percentage of PEs and samples on the market are ‘legit’ samples vs ‘aftermarket’ samples…with prices for samples as wild as they are, why would anyone risk it?
Apr 17, 2023
ICYMI: 4/10-4/14(15)
Apr 14, 2023
ICYMI: 3/27-3/31
Mar 31, 2023
I know we’ve all see these celebrity ‘sneaker rooms’ or ‘sneaker closets’ and, to me, I don’t know if I could find anything more uninteresting than looking at some rich dudes closet that’s FULL of not
Mar 30, 2023
(11/?) I asked Joe if we could buy the unfinished work in order to bring it to a local cobbler to see if we could wrap it up and have *something*, no matter how trivial, to show for the 6 months we we
Mar 21, 2023
(10/?) So here’s a few highlights from the email I sent him:
“Our window of maximum opportunity has already passed, which is extremely unfortunate as we were looking to be the first in the space and
Mar 20, 2023
(9/?) Another month goes by and still…nothing. It is now January…and, according to the terms of our agreement, I should have had my sample done by mid to late October. But still…we’ve got nothing. Fro
Mar 17, 2023
(7/?) Weeks went by without word and I was starting to worry. After the 6-week mark, I started asking where we were at and began hearing more and more about MOQ’s. And I kept explaining, again, that i
Mar 15, 2023
(6/?) I’m the type of manager that trusts that the people I’m working with will get their job(s) done…I’m not the kind of guy to get in your face and micromanage everything you’re doing. I will tell y
Mar 14, 2023
(5/?) In order to get to the point we were at - having already signed a sales proposal and paid the sample fee - we had already provided several design examples of what we would be happy with and the
Mar 13, 2023
Initial conversations with @garrixonstudio went well, as their lead sales guy Joe D was very personable and easy to talk with. I called him out of the blue, told him the idea and he was curious…I exp
Mar 10, 2023
Saw these 'samples' on Wechat and had that dreadful thought...'what are people going to start calling these?'
Did some quick internet research and asked the google machine: 'what is blue and black a
Feb 23, 2023
