Rizzoli Out of the Box: The Rise of Sneaker Culture by Bobbito Garcia multi

The groundbreaking traveling exhibition Out of the Box showcases sneakers from the mid-nineteenth century through athletic breakthroughs to contemporary cultural icons. ?Drawn from the collection of the Bata Shoe Museum and major private collectors, museums and archives - including adidas AG, the Converse Archive, the Kosow Sneaker Museum, the Nike Archive, the Northampton Museums and Art Gallery and the Reebok Archive - this selection is richly contextualized through interviews and essays by design innovators, sneaker collectors and cultural historians, creating a backdrop to the technical innovations, fashion trends, social history and marketing campaigns that have shaped the form over the past two centuries. Out of the Box features sneakers ranging from a spiked running shoe from 1860 to a pair of track and field shoes from 1936, Air Jordans I-XX3, the original Air Force 1 and early Adidas Superstars to contemporary sneakers by celebrities such as Damien Hirst, Jeremy Scott, Jeff Staple and Kanye West. The book also features sneaker and prototype drawings spanning the career of Nike sneaker design legend Tinker Hatfield, making this the definitive illustrated history of sneaker culture. - Number of pages: 256 - Hardcover - ISBN number: 978-0-8478-4660-3