Just One Eye: Nate Lowman x Converse
Fashion | 29 October 2013
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Just One Eye: Nate Lowman x Converse

Just One Eye is a (Los Angeles) concept store bringing together creative minds from divergent worlds of fashion, art and design. “It’s a space, an idea, an experience that’s fully immersive. We connect visionaries,” they say.

Not doing anything by halves, the retailer proposed New York-based artist Nate Lowman to realise custom Converse Chuck Taylors. Working with a cobbler, Lowman deconstructed two of his canvases (depicting a copy of Willem de Kooning’s 1954 portrait of Marilyn Monroe) to create 21 unique pairs of shoes.

The price reflects the fact you’re literally wearing a painting – they cost $25,000 a pop. Keep listening though: one pair will be chosen by Lowman for a limited run of 500 reproductions. Think of those as more like buying an artist’s edition print.


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