Chen Guanxi: I just want to do a good job of design!
The day before yesterday, Chen Guanxifa and his old friend Virgil Abloh said goodbye bitterly and paid tribute to what Virgil Abloh did and the sneaker design he created.
Today, Chen Guanxi's new shoe CLOT x Air Jordan 5 officially ushered in the debut and is determined to be released in 2022;
Before learning about his new shoes, let's first review how many pairs of shoes Chen Guanxi has sold this year. Which pair is the most popular?
CLOT x Air Jordan 14 Terracotta Warriors
Release date: February 11, 2021
At the end of 2018, Chen Guanxi took the unearthed terracotta warriors as inspiration to re-replace AJ13 with a layer of skin, and the harvest was unexpected; after two years, the AJ14 was concocted in accordance with the law, although it did not achieve the desired effect, but the appearance of the AJ14 terracotta warriors gave us multiple choices.
CLOT x Air Jordan 35 Terracotta Jade
This pair and the AJ14 Terracotta Warriors are released on the same day, the theme is the same, but the AJ35 is obviously richer in content, using traditional Chinese jade as an embellishment, which looks atmospheric and graded.
CLOT x Nike Air Max 1 Kiss of Death
Release date: 2021
2021 version of the Kiss of Death 1.0-3.0 Here is a full talk, The Kiss of Death as Chen Guanxi's pressbox work, from the theme style to the details of the shoe body, it reveals sincerity and intentions, and traditional acupuncture and foot massage are also vividly displayed in the promotional film shot by Chen Guanxi;
Originally with all the benign development of the mentality, did not expect to encounter a crash halfway, the transparent plastic material of the toe of the shoe completely crushed the Kiss of Death, although it fell sharply, the Kiss of Death also achieved the greatest benefit for Chen Guanxi in a short period of time.
CLOT x Dr.Martens 1461
Release date: May 29, 2021
Chen Guanxi's first foray into the field of commercial leather shoes is to cooperate with the well-known Dr. Martin to inject silk elements while maintaining the same shoe shape, the details can be identified by the bright red of the sole at a glance, and the CLOT red silk pattern of the insole echoes the sole.
CLOT x Converse Chuck Taylor 1970s gray low/white high
Release date: June 18, 2021
The cooperation between Chen Guanxi and Converse is supposed to be a light car, but I didn't expect that the market heat was very few, it may be that Chen Guanxi forgot to publicize it, so that many people do not know this shoe.
CLOT x Sacai x Nike LDWaffle White Orange/Grey Blue
Chen Guanxi and his wife Qin Shupei's love for Sacai is no longer enough to express in words, the couple has been on their feet too many times, and even in order to leave a deep mark in Sacai's heart, they will not hesitate to use CLOT and Sacai to jointly name.
The design follows the style of Kiss of Death, but the plastic material is eliminated and replaced by a translucent mesh, which is much better.
Up to now, Chen Guanxi has sold 10 pairs of shoes, to say that the popularity is higher and has not collapsed is the Sacai joint name and terracotta warriors, other markets can not bear to look at it.
CLOT x Air Jordan 5 Low is Chen Guanxi's 11th pair of shoes exposed this year, but the shoes did not cause much of a topic, but Chen Guanxi was insulted by shoe friends, saying that Chen Guanxi did not talk about credit, said that there is no silk in ten years, how long has it been, you use silk on Nike's shoes!
The cause of the matter has to start from chen guanxi released the last pair of AJ1 white silk in 2019, at that time, Chen Guanxi promised to the media reporter that there would be no silk cooperation with Nike in the next ten years, which was a sensational trend circle, and the market price of all silk rose by a margin in an instant, and the matter ended here?
Before it's over, how did Chen Guanxi become the target of everyone?
Reason: Chen Guanxi blatantly used silk elements in THE CLOT x Air Jordan 5, breaking his promise of being silk-free within ten years and Nike, which led to the emergence of insults on the Internet;
Is Chen Guanxi lifting a stone and dropping it on his own feet? Obviously not! I carefully observed the CLOT x Air Jordan 5, at first did not find the silk element, I thought it was YXH rubbing heat, until I saw a pattern covered with red silk on a particularly inconspicuous insole, only to react, the so-called silk refers to the pattern of the insole, suddenly speechless, is not a small detail that is not concerned also to hype the topic?