This is straight fire. I think everyone, including Jeff, are waiting to see what Beaverton’s response to this will be. I hope they’ll take phone orders!

I like the Pigeon!

we already know what Beaverton said.. they said no more jeff staple.. good job cutting your own throat jeff, i hope the $5,000 from new balance was worth it. Maybe another sale at reed space will work.

undesign….

Putting color on an already complete shoe isn’t design, it’s a colorway, it’s intern work. The pigeon icon is just as ridiculous to be called “design”. Call it art if you like, but not design. The world needs more true designers like Jonathan Ive and James Dyson; men and women that make the world a better place through true innovation and hours of prototyping with a goal to make the world a better place. To say this”design” is innovative is an insult to true innovators and to state that he’s “shaking up” the sneaker world is only a mild complement; an observation of how fickle and innovation deficient the sneaker world truly is.

i fly to beaverton tomorrow, i’ll keep my ears open

I’m with cavan on this one. My 14 year old son could have done this in his sleep.

cavan,
Thank you! Well said. People like this give designers a bad reputation as being pretentious no talent hipsters who focus on the ironic or absurd. It’s not even bad art. It looks like these were designed to be worn by Will Ferrell or Ben Stiller in a movie about him being a runner and in grammar school his grandmother stitched on the pigeons for good luck and he became known as the pigeon or some ridiculous nonsense like that after winning the race.

Love the haters. Didn’t notice anybody else with their own shoe, with our without a pigeon on it.