The Tastemakers Society

Kawasaki Footwear is a true eco line of shoes, its process includes melting all natural materials together such as cotton, suede and rubber. There is a history behind this shoe brand it’s just making a comeback after a 20 year hiatus do to the Iron Curtain, but now that that issue has fallen a new factory in the Czech Republic has been hard at work bringing new life back into this old brand. The history is so deep a simple sum up would be like this, a communist shoe with a Japanese name manufactured/prodcued in the Czech Republic, so if you want to read more about the history of  Kawasaki and all it’s been through just click here.

Gotta give it to those italians they know how to make a heel; nice and high. Giuseppe Zanotti makes those sex and the city type of heels (ladies, I know all about Jimmy Choo’s) that’ll have you prancing down the street and skipping over puddles doing your best Carey Bradshaw impression. And don’t worry ladies he has handbags to match with your high steppers, but I’m warning you now ladies you will spend way too much time on his website looking at heels. You might catch heelxiety if you’re not careful.

Remember when I did the interview with Sung Choi and his Clae shoes a little while back, don’t remember, this should jog your memory. Well, I got my Clae Russells in the mail the other day, and I am sooooo in love. The ballistic (which I’m not sure exactly how to describe the material) and leather combo is uber cool and gives the shoe this really smooth chill look and it being all black except for the all white sole makes for a very low key approach to style. Plus they are super comfortable, and yep this sounds like some type of endorsement, maybe Clae should cut me a check or just 12 more pairs of these ballistic Russells and I’ll be happy.  

Tagur, AKA the Blanks, are customization sneakers, which is great for sneaker heads, customizers and artist a like. The shoes are created to hold any ink, paint, dye, stencil, whatever you can think of to design the shoe to your own likings. This is the perfect way of using fashion as another extesion of self expression and a way to seperate your style from others. And you don’t have to be some great artist to design the shoe, you can just drop a simple design for yourself, but being a good artist would help with making your shoes crazy dope.

more info hit AP at stylistic.intangible@gmail.com

Sugar makes female shoes, but I’m talking your more everyday wear shoes, not I’m about to hit the club heels. They make cutesy boots and shoes, they have no problem playing around with colors and artworks, which so happily grace the sides of their boots. A very nice, fun and playful shoe for females, a way to have a comfy fit and nice look all at the same time. It’s just a straight up girly shoe, made for females, nice pickup for the holidays.

When I was 3 years old, I was a pretty smooth dude, well atleast that’s how I would like to think of me at 3. But I couldn’t really say I had already established a global presence and I definitely wasn’t luxurious, well if you count rocking some osh kosh’s and Gap kids as luxury then maybe so. Well, I wasn’t able to claim any of that when I was 3 but Jhung Yuro can. After being around for only 3 young years Jhung Yuro has already grown to be known as a luxury shoe for the luxury lifestyle. Now I’m going to let 31 year old Jhung Yuro explain the brand, because who better else to talk about Jhung Yuro then the man who is branding his name as a lifestyle.