Adidas Artist Pack now available online at Footasylum

Forum x Dalek New York’s Dalek has reworked the early 80’s court innovation that is the Forum Mid. With its plethora of panelling and technical features, added texture comes from a series of different leathers, ranging from sturdy tumbled surfaces overlaid on the supersoft leather with a recurring “Space Monkey’ print. Black and grey sits sombrely at odds with the characters, complimented by a sudden burst of colour on the nylon tongue, and finished with a densely printed leather lining and custom sockliner.

Superstar x Pochoir For London, graffiti-artist Pochoir brings his London street sign satire to a Superstar. Featuring a reflective, stone coloured upper with a subtle printed depiction of the jagged 3-Stripes a totally unique blue commemorative plaque-style heel print and metal lace jewel, finished with a slightly speckled heel Trefoil and stencilled artist logo sockliner.

Stan Smith x KRSN Artist and illustrator Jan-KRSN-Garet takes inspiration from 70’s and 80’s illustration. His take on the bestselling Stan Smith silhouette features a ‘gold leaf’ print depicting several Fleur-de-lis, distressed gold printing on the heeltabs and an oversized depiction of Stan on the tongue, white metal eyelets and an off-white forefoot stitch. ‘adidas x KRSN Stan Smith Paris 1972’ lettering completes this unique makeup.

Nizza x Fakso An artist, photographer and key documenter of rolling steel, revealing graffiti at its most uncompromising. Milan’s Fakso sees metal as a canvas, celebrating the tactics, technique and determination of the scene’s key players. On the ankle-high Nizza silhouette, the leather upper becomes a canvas, covered by a large graffiti image. The printed tongue, beige 3-Stripes and yellow bottom eyelet, foxing and rubber toe bumper sit on a black midsole, giving the silhouette the dark air of Fakso’s prolific output.

Samba x MADSAKI MADSAKI holds it down for Tokyo with a shapeshifting multi-discipline approach to art that refuses to be tethered, and his take on the Samba takes the soccer training shoe into new territories without losing sight of the shoe’s original appeal. A patterned soft leather lace cover, a reptile-skin effect leather upper, white contrast stitching, scrawled lettering and white highlighted midsole detailing makes for a unique makeup.

Introducing U-Lace!

U-Lace is an ingeniously simple new lacing system that makes complicated lace ups a thing of the past.

Engineered to span one set of eyelets each, U-Laces give you the power to create an almost infinite combination of colours and configurations. They lock in and pop back out easily, so you can use them on multiple sneakers and change them as often as you like: quickly, easily, repeatedly.

With so many colours available, you have billions of colour combinations at your fingertips. On top of that, when you consider all of the different and creative ways that you can configure U-Laces in your sneakers, the customisation possibilities reach into the trillions.

U-Lace transforms you into a bon-a-fide sneaker designer, where the options are limitless. Go on, grab a few boxes of U-Lace and...

...transform your sneakers into a limited edition of one.

U-Lace - Available to buy online and instore from Footasylum

Click here to find out more about what U-Lace is and how to use it, or, click here to watch the video

Footasylum's KICK’n with LIPA students - Saturday 17th October

Footasylum will be showcasing young, talented musicians from the Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts (LIPA) as it opens it new store on Bold Street, Liverpool, this Saturday.

‘KICK’n with LIPA’ will feature upcoming bands and solo artists at Footasylum’s new store in Bold Street, to give shoppers a flavour of some of the latest sounds coming out of the college, whose former students include The Wombats and Sandi Thom.

Eddie Lundon, of China Crisis and a music lecturer at LIPA, which was co-founded by Sir Paul McCartney, said:

KICK’n is a great opportunity for the students to perform in a slightly different environment to what they’re used to and we’re delighted to be taking part. Most of these artists play gigs across the city and one of the bands on show, Untouched, has already won a national songwriting award.

These are the stars of the future and this showcase features a variety of different musical styles.
Matt Lowery, from Footasylum said:

"It made perfect sense to feature upcoming bands in a store that sells upcoming footwear brands. New and unique footwear brands are an exciting part of our offer and compliment our more established premium products on sale. We’re also really excited about it as a couple of the bands have already received national acclaim".

"We see this as being a long-term partnership with the city’s young creatives and look forward to working with LIPA in the future."

On the day, there will be a 20% discount for students and an opportunity for one person to win new footwear every month for a year. Jeffrey Bowman (MrBowlegs), a shoe illustrator from Converse will also be in store.

KICK’N takes place on Saturday 17th October with bands performing inside and out from 10am – 4pm.

Live acts performing in the store will include:

Erica Vandruen
Zoe Nicol
Guru Vikingstad
Untouched
Prison Area
Dire Wolf
Jeanette Vik
Edd Croft
Tina Refsnes
Willy Mcgee
Jonas Alaska