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Isola is as closely associated with lebron james jersey Marimekko as Ratia, and her designs emphasise the brand's bohemian pedigree. In the 1960s, she was greatly inspired by American abstract art, for example the monumental, colour-saturated canvases of Frank Stella and Ellsworth Kelly. The spontaneous look of her prints was reinforced by her expressive brushwork.One of her prints, the 1964 design Unikko (poppy in Finnish), is the brand's most iconic pattern. It features exuberant, semi-abstract blooms, their vitality springing from the overall pattern's wayward asymmetry and ultra-pop colours; the best-known one combines hot pink, tangerine and black. The design sent a thrillingly transgressive message: Isola created it in defiance of Ratia's dislike of florals the standard, clichéd pattern on early 1960s textiles. Still, Unikko accorded with Ratia's preference for bold patterns, and it uncannily captured the zeitgeist, chiming with pop art, notably with Andy Warhol's fluoro-bright Flowers series, also from 1964.

There have always been powerfully opposing forces at play here, and they're also rooted lebron james lakers jersey in youth culture: the urge to stand out, versus the need to belong (and swerve fashion mis-steps). At Sneakers Unboxed, I spot an immaculately cased set of Adidas all-white three-stripe Adicolor shoes (1983), designed as a "blank canvas" for personal customisation.It makes me recall the stress around wearing the "right" sneaker brands at my lebron james cleveland jersey own schools in the late-80s and 90s. When I lived in Saudi Arabia, there was a peculiar vogue for pastel LA Gear shoes with criss-cross laces; when I moved back to South London, the footwear pressure intensified. I was heckled for wearing "foreign" (unrecognisable) shoes. Another girl at my secondary school was mocked for wearing plain non-branded trainers (we'd have never used the US term "sneakers"); keen to be accepted, she wrote "NIKE" in ballpoint capital letters on the sides and she was bullied even more mercilessly after that.

Certain sneaker songs defy street cred; on the country tune A Pair of Old Sneakers (1980), Tammy Wynette lebron james jersey number and George Jones lament a faded romance ("worn out an' comin' unglued"). More recently, the offbeat 2014 Mandarin-language track My Skateboard Shoes (translated lyrics: "I felt a force moving my feet/ With my skateboard shoes, I'm not afraid of the night") scored brief viral success for its singer, Pangmailang. Elsewhere, shoes summon escapist magic in K-pop star Ha Sung-woon's Sneakers (2021); in the video, he unboxes a pair of All-Stars that beautifully match his pink hair.

Sneaker culture has appeared onscreen in feature documentaries including the star-studded Just for Kicks (2005), but fictional movies also fuel its mystique. When martial arts legend Bruce Lee wore Onitsuka Tiger sneakers in the early-70s, he kick-started the Japanese brand's cult appeal; Uma Thurman's costume homage in Quentin Tarantino's Kill Bill Vol.1 (2003) would prove influential in its own right. A brilliant promo poster for Aliens (1986) declared: "REEBOK preview a shoe that you won't see for 150 years", with Sigourney Weaver's sci-fi heroine wearing laceless "Alien Stomper" sneakers, designed by Tuan Lee (to a brief dictated by the film's climactic scenes); fans would actually only need to wait 30 years for special-edition Alien Stompers though the initial 2016 release bizarrely omitted women's sizes.

"There is a term increasingly used in sneaker culture that describes this perfectly: sneaker privilege," says Salazar. "This privilege isn't only to do with lebron james cavs jersey how rich you are, but also your own status within the industry. Online raffles should have made it more democratic, but there's a big debate around people designing bots to hack the raffles and some sneakers not being fully distributed, so it is often still about who you know. However, if you are able to see through the 'hype' and aren't in it to make money off reselling limited editions, there are a lot of interesting sneakers out there for every taste and identity. But it is definitely a very Image 'coded' world, where people judge you from your feet up."