Converse x Dr. Woo ?Wear to Reveal? Highlights the Beauty in Breakdown
The latest Converse x Dr. Woo collaboration accentuates the well-worn aesthetic of Chucks culture and turns it into a fashionable feature.
Converse Chucks stand as the antithesis of greater sneaker culture. Where sneaker fiends often spend an inordinate amount of time, care, and money keeping kicks immaculate, Chucks are purposely worn down for months or even years to attain a certain well-worn aesthetic. Like denim, the tears, rips, and shreds marring the surface are celebrated ? desirable tattoos of age. It makes sense then the latest Converse x Dr. Woo collaboration accentuates this aspect of Chucks culture into a fashionable feature with the ?Wear to Reveal? collection.
The artist’s previous collaborative collection used embroidery to represent Brian Woo’s notable talents as a skin artist to the stars. The sequel takes a more dimensional route, purposely tearing apart small sections of the Converse Chuck 70 black or white canvas silhouette, revealing another colorful layer of pattern awaiting underneath to be exposed with time (or ripped, if patience isn’t your thing). In time with wear and age, the shoes transform with the dramatic transformation of a caterpillar into a butterfly, shedding its monochromatic top layer for something all more colorful underneath ? a sort of two-shoes-in-one!
From Dr. Woo (aka Brian Woo):
The shoe is a culmination of all things that I love – vintage, the wearing in of your own clothes, how it keeps d...
Converse Chucks stand as the antithesis of greater sneaker culture. Where sneaker fiends often spend an inordinate amount of time, care, and money keeping kicks immaculate, Chucks are purposely worn down for months or even years to attain a certain well-worn aesthetic. Like denim, the tears, rips, and shreds marring the surface are celebrated ? desirable tattoos of age. It makes sense then the latest Converse x Dr. Woo collaboration accentuates this aspect of Chucks culture into a fashionable feature with the ?Wear to Reveal? collection.
The artist’s previous collaborative collection used embroidery to represent Brian Woo’s notable talents as a skin artist to the stars. The sequel takes a more dimensional route, purposely tearing apart small sections of the Converse Chuck 70 black or white canvas silhouette, revealing another colorful layer of pattern awaiting underneath to be exposed with time (or ripped, if patience isn’t your thing). In time with wear and age, the shoes transform with the dramatic transformation of a caterpillar into a butterfly, shedding its monochromatic top layer for something all more colorful underneath ? a sort of two-shoes-in-one!
From Dr. Woo (aka Brian Woo):
The shoe is a culmination of all things that I love – vintage, the wearing in of your own clothes, how it keeps d...
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