From Chucks to Dunks: 100 Years of Sneaker Design Visualized

Shoe party have been slew - producing sneakers since the Converse All Star first appeared all the way back in 1917 , and their designs have changed immensely since . But how did we get from no - falderol kick to Jeremy Scott ’s garish winged lusus naturae ? Aprint from PopChartLabsshows the development over almost a 100 of canary design .

you could likely nail different parting of your life-time when certain shoes were the brake shoe to rock . In elementary schooltime maybe they were Reebok Pumps . In halfway school , perhaps they were Jordans , and in mellow school , checkerboard Vans , and so forth . And that ’s just your own tastes switch . This post-horse shows how shoes have morphed in a much larger context , displaying 134 different pairs of kicks from Air Jordan XIV Wu Tangs to Puma Disco Blaze and everything in between .

Sneakerheads can buy one of theprintsfor $ 26 , or $ 136 if you want it to come framed . And even though the trends have gone from high - top to low - top and back again , some things have remained the same — after almost a hundred years , chuck are still in . [ PopChartLabsviaFastCo Design ]

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