Sneaker Street

October 12, 2007

Today Aly and I struck out to Mong Kok to go to Fa Yuen St, otherwise known as “Sneaker Street,” to see what kind of inspiration we could get from the hottest sneaks in Hong Kong. Well, it took us a while to actually get to the sneakers, because we had to walk through the “Ladies Market” to get there, which has everything you never knew you wanted. After lightening our pockets and loading ourselves down with new merchandise, we finally arrived at our destination…an entire street with store after store of sneakers. We saw what I am assuming is the latest newest design from every athletic shoe brand you can name. Everybody’s got limited edition artist series, with some especially memorable ones from Vans and Puma. Some memorable style also came from casual wear with Birkenstock’s latest design. And we were magnetically drawn to the Hong Kong shoe brand Acupuncture, which uses an icon very similar to the anarchy A (kind of a funny icon to go with the name “Acupuncture”). Acupuncture is a cross between Japanese style and skate style. They’ve also got some lifestyle crossover styles with Japanese cherry blossom design for the girls and hip-casual wingtip-ish kicks for the guys.

Incidentally, after returning from Sneaker Street, I searched the web for more info and found a bunch of sneaker-specific blogs. Here are some of the ones I spent time on:
Sneaker Blogger
Hypebeast
Sneaker Freaker

Here are some pics. Pardon the quality. I was shooting thru store windows, and sometimes the shoes were wrapped in plastic as well…The first is a shot of some of the Acupuncture shoes.The last 2 are supposedly the latest Vans. I couldnt find any info on these styles, but I’m sure all the sneaker freaks will know the scoop.