The icons were a good example because a lot of those shoes had been made in different versions, but I don’t think they had ever been deconstructed and reconstructed in a way that, you know, we did with that collection. A refusal to back down. I’m gonna make a thousand logos, I’m gonna design something this way.
And this idea of like pushing the factories, like, no, we can do this. Like, let’s say “yes” more often. “Yes,” we’re going to expose this foam.
It’s going to yellow over time, which would be considered undesirable. You say that this is a hiking shoe, I say it’s a skating shoe. You say that this is a skating shoe, I play basketball in it.
So I think, his affect on fashion is, these houses have to look at people that haven’t come from these institutions now. Because he proved that you don’t have to to be great. So I think that’s the biggest change he probably had on it, just to open up the market of where genius might come from.
