Maison Martin Margiela gives the All-American trainer brand Converse an avant-garde makeover for autumn
Maison Martin Margiela gives the All-American trainer brand Converse an avant-garde makeover for autumn.
How do you give Kristen Stewart's favourite footwear brand - and bonafide off-duty classic - a fresh new look?
Well, if you’re quirky French-based fashion house Maison Martin Margiela, a brand new paint job does the trick.
Maison Martin Margiela and Converse’s collaboration features a range of high-top All-Star and low-top Jack Purcell trainers launching in stores this month that are completely hand-dipped in bright white paint – and we mean completely. The canvas, eyelets, laces and even the soles get the treatment.
The paint cracks as you wear them to reveal one of four colours underneath - heritage Converse colours including red, black and navy and a Maison Martin Margiela exclusive, vintage yellow.
'The Maison has always been obsessed with white; it is used as a layer to give an incognito feeling. A sort of poetry, with the passage of time, the shoe asserts itself,' says Maison Martin Margiela.
Kristen Stewart even tries to wear her Converse on the red carpet
Maison Martin Margiela A/W 2013
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