Converse Jack Purcell Johnny x Masafumi Watanabe

Sneaker News | LudaKicks | January 25, 2012 at 7:00 pm

Converse has linked track of Japanese designer Masafumi Watanabe to place their own twist around the classic Converse Jack Purcell Johnny. Watanabe may be the founding father of the influential label Bedwin and also the Heartbreakers and is just one of Japan’s most influential designers as well as an innovator of the contemporary, customized, street-put on aesthetic. Reimagining the legendary Jack Purcell Johnny being an outdoors-inspired, water-resistant shoe, Watanabe merges its classic styling with rugged detailing generally available on duck boots. The shoe features an orange-brown leather collar and vulcanized, monochromatic, dark-brown rubber uppers using the legendary Jack Purcell Johnny detailing embossed quietly. The familiar Jack Purcell foot-smile gets to be a color-corresponding accent in dark-brown rubber along with a semi-transparent, gum-rubber sole models the shoe’s simple, yet handsome elements. The shoe has a standard-lace or perhaps a boot-lace option featuring the Masafumi Watanabe label around the shoe’s feet mattress.

450 pairs from the Masafumi Watanabe for Converse Jack Purcell Johnny shoe is going to be available globally beginning on Feb 4, 2012 at Converse First String Merchants. All footwear will retail for any MSRP of $ 140 USD and will also be obtainable in unisex sizing 8 – 13.

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