Here's the full story behind Yoon Ahn’s Converse x Ambush collaboration:
found herself gravitating towards new and unfamiliar territory: footwear. “I wanted to make something that would go with the collection,” she explains over the phone from her studio in Tokyo. “I wanted these rubber boots that were military-inspired or very utilitarian, and I had ’50s U.S. cold-weather bunny boots on the mood board.”
Lo and behold, she swiftly received a call from Nike—with whom she had already begun collaborating, not long after being named Kim Jones’s jewelry director at Dior Men last spring—inviting her to visit the Converse headquarters in Boston, with a view to developing a new shoe design. “It was just perfect timing,” she says. “I brought the images of the bunny boots, and the design team told me, ‘You know, we used to produce these.’ Everything felt like it was meant to be.
While the kicks clearly bear Ahn’s playful stamp, they’re still embedded in the history of the Converse brand. “If I’m doing a collaboration with something that iconic, I don’t want to take it to a place where you can’t even recognize them,” she says.
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