It’s hard to believe now, but high fashion and sneakers haven’t always gone hand in hand. In fact, there was a time, not so very long ago, when ‘sneakers’ was essentially a byword for sloppy. There was nothing remotely premium about them and they certainly weren’t the sort of thing a historic fashion house would parade down the runway at Paris Fashion Week.
How things have changed. Today there’s not a designer label on earth that hasn’t turned its attention to sneakers in some way, shape or form. Some of the biggest trends of the last 50 years have been sneaker related and as we head deeper into the 21st century,