As the second oldest franchise in the NFL the Green Bay Packers have some history. Nowadays they are the last of the small town NFL teams but the most winning team ever with 12 league championships: 9 NFL Championships prior to the introduction of the Super Bowl at which they have three victories 1967, 1968,…[Read More]
The 6th annual Winter Shoe Shine took place in Denver, Colorado at the Summit Music Hall sponsored by Nike Snowboarding. Once again a group of artists were commissioned to customize a pair of Nike’s Signature Snowboarding Boots the Zoom Force 1. In past years the show included many local Denver artists but this year Nike…[Read More]
Back on November 21, 2010 at the American Music Awards in Los Angeles, CA Justin Bieber owned the winner’s list and likely would have won the best shoes worn at the awards show. The shoes Bieber wore were custom pair of KR3W Franklin’s by The Shoe Surgeon. What had started as a simple black leather…[Read More]
The Diversitile Custom Clothing crew out of Florida starts off 2011 with a solid paint and fabric combo custom sneaker with these highly detailed Nike Dunks. If you could not tell by the distinct features these custom Nike Dunks are based off the former Good Guys Doll named Chucky from the movie Child’s Play. The…[Read More]
Sit back and Just Enjoy This Shit These Shoes or get on the horn and email Jake of JBF Customs because he is only making 5 pairs of these decon-recon Nike Blazers inspired by the rapper Curren$y and his JET LIFE movement. JBF has not made many themed customs usually sticking to simple designs with…[Read More]
This year JBF Customs has put to the test the deconstructed-reconstructed custom shoe designs using carbon fiber textured material. The end results are very slick high tech looking creations, that scream a blend of past and present. Even though he started using the carbon fiber look in 2009 he has pretty much perfected it in…[Read More]
At the end of this past summer emmanueLabor was working over time to finish a slew of decon-recon custom shoes. I recently caught up with him for a few quick questions about his Darth Vader inspired Nike Blazers complete with black patent leather cut and sewn to recreate Vader’s helmet and light up Swooshes to…[Read More]
University of Minnesota student Chris Hui aka C2 was recently put to the test by his school to create a pair of custom sneakers for the school’s mascot Goldy Gopher to wear during the 2010 NCAA Mascot Competition at Disney World in Orlando, Florida. Chris explains how the Minnesota student body and the crazy game…[Read More]
Two weeks ago theMenace brought the house down with his LEVI’S Black Acid Wash Denim Vans Sk8 Hi, like literally almost brought the house down as the day I posted them up PaintOrThread.com had a record day in traffic. To keep the crowds happy he once again put the Sk8 Hi to the test with…[Read More]
2010 has been the year of the full decon-recon custom Vans Sk8 Hi for Washington D.C. based shoe customizer theMenace. I have really lost count of the different colorways he has created using the Sk8 Hi this year. After already trying out a fresh selvage denim as his main material in a reconstruction back in…[Read More]
