Footwear Insight

November / December 2018

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footwearinsight.com November/December 2018 ~ Footwear Insight • 43 footwearinsight.com November/December 2018 ~ Footwear Insight • 43 3M-like material on the prototype was removed. Fila, getting strong Street vibes to the return of its Disruptor 2, has inked Grant Hill to a lifetime contract. (Hill initially signed a seven-year, $80 million contract with the Italian brand in 1997.) And Reebok has brought back Allen Iverson after four years with the $160 Iverson Legacy model. AND1, the original streetball label now owned by Sequential Brands, tapped former NBA great Kevin Garnett as creative director and global ambassador in June. AND1 used the recent ComplexCon to roll out a 25th anniversary edition of the original Tai Chi shoe to the convention's basketball-crazy crowd. (Interestingly, the player who wore the Tai Chi to win the 2000 NBA Slam Dunk Contest, Vince Carter, is also coming back to the scene. The former Puma endorser, who joined Nike in 2000, is wearing and endorsing the Swoosh's Shox BB4, a shoe that he says helped him to become a star player.) "The '90s may be the jumping off point for the cat- egory's resurgence," proclaims John Scipio, general manager of the AND1 brand. "We love and celebrate the '90s, but we're not going to live there." l Puma's Clyde Court Disrupt has an engineered knit upper and collar. The style was also recently joined by the third iteration of the Clyde Court, the Purple Glow, which has a translucent sole with a hint of purple and a knit upper. MSRP $120. THE NEXT GENERATION SORBOTHANE ® INSOLE Ultra PLUS SORBOTHANE ® PERFORMANCE INSOLES EXCLUSIVE insoles-sorbothane.com sorbothane.com 800.838.3906 Who knew a stability insole could be comfortable? We did. UltraPLUS_OutDoorInsight-Ad_A2.indd 1 12/14/17 1:08 PM

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