Footwear styles come and go like the wind, as well as people’s taste in general, but for myself there is always one constant, and that is a love for simple shoes. Clean panels, simple colorway, comfort, and lifespan, are the keys to my painful selection process. I’m not looking for some patent leather monster of a shoe, with 30 straps that doubles as a pair of shin guards, that I would surely be embarrassed to tell my child I ever wore. And during a recent this quest for shoes, a friend of mine put me on to a complete deadstock set of Nike Tennis Classic HF, which are the epitome of my check list. These are pretty much like slippers on my feet, I love the simple primary color selection, and I really love the dropping of the stitched on swoosh for a perf swoosh in the panel. The Small fragment logo hit on the back is a perfect addition to cap off a shoe that I will probably wear until there is a hole in it.

Now Hiroshi Fujiwara is probably one of the designers I respect the most, and I always bitch about how hard it is to obtain his collabo work, so to pass this up would be insane. Once it finally stops rain for 2 mins, I’m gonna give these a proper wear. In the meantime I’m hunting for the recent white leather with gold heel tab and the AC ND sail/obsidian release in a size 13 :)