Out of the Box: The Rise of Sneaker Culture

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A groundbreaking traveling exhibition, Out of the Box showcases sneakers, from the mid-nineteenth century to sports performance breakthroughs, to provide-day cultural icons. Drawn from the selection of the Bata Shoe Museum and demanding private collectors, museums, and archives—including adidas AG, Converse Archives, Kosow Sneaker Museum, Nike Archives, Northampton Museums and Art Gallery, and Reebok Archives—this option is richly contextualized with interviews and essays by design innovators, sneaker collectors, and cultural historians, creating a backdrop of the technical innovation, fashion trends, social history, and marketing campaigns that shaped the shape during the last two centuries. 
Out of the Box includes sneakers starting from an 1860 spiked running shoe, a couple of 1936 track shoes, Air Jordans I–XX3, the unique Air Force 1, and early Adidas Superstars to latest sneakers by prominent figures including Damien Hirst, Jeremy Scott, Jeff Staple, and Kanye West. The book also highlights sneakers and prototype drawings that span the career of Nike sneaker design legend Tinker Hatfield, making this the definitive illustrated history of sneaker culture.

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