To celebrate how sneakers have exploded into the mainstream over the last three decades, experiential event company We Are Parable have developed “Is It The Shoes?”, a three day retrospective event that will explore the influence that trainers have on design, music, art, film and fashion.
The festival will be held in at the Rag Factory Arts Gallery on the 11-13 October 2013.…
View post →BOXPARK 08/2011 from Roger Wade on Vimeo.
‘Streetwear is essentially dressing from the trainers up; and it developed out of music – both hip hop and the rave scene,’
Roger Wade
I remember reading this quote back in the day when I was applying for a design work experience position at Boxfresh…didnt get the opportunity, but it stuck with me, and I adopted it, the dressing up from the trainers, it just made sense to me…
Roger Wade, owner of UK streetwear brand Boxfresh, brings us BOXPARK, the world’s first ever pop-up mall based in uber cool n trendy Shoreditch, the heart of East London.…
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