What are the factors that affect the price of a pair of shoes?

Joint name? Limited? story? Yan value?

For this question, each SNEAKERHEAD may have its own answer. But in addition to these above-mentioned subjective factors, sometimes adding some "small accessories" from the third party on the shoes can not only make their value soar, but also present a different temperament.

Riri

There is a saying in the field of clothing - "Good clothes don't necessarily use riri zippers, but riri zippers must be good clothes." If your clothes are equipped with a riri zipper from Switzerland, you have already beaten 99% of the YKK zipper.

The same level of riri zipper and YKK zipper are higher in gloss, weight, smoothness and precision. In addition, the riri zipper is the world's first zipper brand that combines zipper teeth and webbing. The rich and outstanding webbing also gives you professional and advanced enjoyment. Therefore, the price of the two is also several times or even more than ten times.

Faced with such high costs, the riri zippers are all high-end fashion brands in Japan and Europe, such as visvim, Prada and Armani. However, in this era of more and more quality, ordinary riri zippers have been promoted by some original brands as a selling point, and continue to develop and appear on the shoes.

Fear of God Military Sneaker is equipped with a riri STARRE zipper on the inside of the shoe, which matches its offer price of up to $1,095.

On the recently launched riri x Converse Chuck 70 Hi Top, a riri BAT zipper is used to enhance the superior black and white color scheme while demonstrating the superior texture beyond the street.

Fidlock

Fidlock from Germany is one of the leading brands in the lock industry. Its biggest feature is the use of a slidable neodymium magnet and a stable mechanical lock to make a semi-automatic lock. The user can open and close the Fidlock lock with just one hand, even with gloves, without the need to squeeze like a traditional lock.

The convenience of the Fidlock locks makes them often appear in bags and safety helmets such as the DSPTCH and Y-3 brands. In line with the current trend of the popular function, the brand's magnetic locks are also stunningly appearing on the shoes.

I have to mention that Tom Sachs and Nike teamed up to launch the third co-branded shoe Tom Sachs x Nike Mars Yard Overshoe. The biggest difference between the shoes of the previous two generations is the appearance of their aerospace boots. This is achieved by the use of Dyneema nylon fabric that wraps the entire body of the shoe, as well as the Fidlock HOOK magnetic lock that secures the back of the foot.

But Tom Sachs x Nike Mars Yard Overshoe is not the first Nike shoe to use the Fidlock magnetic lock. In 2017, NikeLab launched the new shoe ACG.07.KMTR. The shoe's novel wearing style, which is made of waterproof fabric, drawstring and Fidlock magnetic lock, makes countless functional enthusiasts crazy about the sound of the last magnetic buckle.

Soon after, Nike introduced the Fidlock magnetic lock to the classic Air Force 1 shoes, and created the Nike Air Force 1 Low Utility shoes with full performance. It was also based on this and launched a joint series with Carhartt WIP.

VELCRO

On sneakers, "Velcro" is a simple, practical and very common design. In English, in addition to the "Hook&Loop", many people are more accustomed to using "Velcro" to express their meaning.

But do you know? In fact, "Velcro" is already a registered trademark. As early as 1941, the Swiss engineer and inventor George de Mestral took inspiration from the burdock thorns on his dog, creating the world's first hook-and-loop buckle (professional name for Velcro), and then registered. VELCRO brand.

Therefore, although other brands that use Velcro and the media do not evade the term “Velcro”, VELCRO attaches great importance to intellectual property protection, and has repeatedly stated the use of the VELCRO brand trademark on the official homepage and the use of this. significance.

For such an area where intellectual property is somewhat confusing, Xiaobian can't tell which shoes use the authorized VELCRO hook and loop fasteners, but from the shoes I can think of about Velcro, Kanye West dominates the design of Nike. Air Yeezy, Nike Air Yeezy 2 and Yeezy Boost 750 all continue the Velcro design on the instep, which is also the little obsession of the past.

GORE-TEX

GORE-TEX fabrics developed by GORE USA are no longer exclusive to outdoor sports brands such as The North Face and Arc'teryx.

In fashion and fashion, brands such as Supreme, Palace, Off-White, and Nike ACG also use this fabric to create clothing with certain abilities. In addition to the advantages of waterproof, windproof and breathable, the plasticity of GORE-TEX fabric is one of its natural advantages. Coupled with the creative blessing of major brands, products using GORE-TEX fabrics have become a symbol of quality and price.

Of course, this performance fabric has long appeared on outdoor hiking or hiking shoes, but more recently it has been used on sneakers. Japanese fashion brand AURALEE has teamed up with Tokyo Design Studio, New Creative's Tokyo creative team, to launch the joint version of the RC_2 shoe. The cowboy leather upper is mixed with the GORE-TEX fabric inside, with earth color, translucent TPU bracket and split EVA ENCAP outsole, giving the whole pair of shoes a high street quality while taking into account the outstanding features. Sex.

GORE's partnership with the Converse brand has been around for many years. Not only the GORE-TEX fabric is added to the latter's classic shoes, but also the outdoor performance is enhanced. New shoes such as Converse Chuck 70 Hi Utility Hiker GORE-TEX have also been introduced.

It is worth mentioning that GORE is very strong when working with brands. Almost all products that use fabrics such as GORE-TEX will be marked in a conspicuous position. Ordinary consumers may be disgusted with this at first. Over time, with the emergence of excellent joint products, GORE-TEX will become a spiritual totem in the future like Stone Island's cross armband.

CORDURA

Developed by textile manufacturer giant DuPont, CORDURA fabrics, while not as functional as GORE-TEX, have always been synonymous with tough and durable fabrics. CORDURA blends different nylons in an extremely fine weight ratio and is treated with a polyurethane coating to provide a certain degree of water resistance. Because of this feature, like Fidlock, CORDURA is often used at high frequency wear in all types of bags to enhance its durability.

However, this does not mean that CORDURA fabrics are lacking in trend. As early as 2014, adidas Originals was based on the more popular ZX Flux shoes at the time, with a full CORDURA fabric upper and drawstring laces for both outdoor and fashion attributes.

The Off-White brand, led by Virgil Abloh, has also used a CORDURA fabric to create a hiking boot that has become one of the brand's alternatives.

LOOPWHEELER

LOOPWHEELER is a unique fabric produced by the "Loopwheeler Machin", which has a natural soft texture and maintains long-term invariance. However, this kind of machine can only knit a cloth of about one meter per hour, which is a kind of machine that is out of touch with the high-efficiency production pursued by modern times.

Fortunately, LOOPWHEELER founder Suzuki has saved and developed this weaving technology. Years ago, LOOPWHEELER collaborated with brands such as Stussy, mastermind JAPAN, Poter and BEAMS.

Among them, the biggest non-Nike for LOOPWHEELER is none other than. At that time, the Nike NSW series and LOOPWHEELER launched a variety of apparel products, which received great attention from the outside world. The fabrics are also used on Nike's numerous shoes, including Nike Air Vortex Lux, Nike Waffle Racer, Sock Dart and Air Force 1 Ultraforce, etc., and are presented in Japanese-inspired iconic colors such as indigo and grey.

However, LOOPWHEELER's biggest disadvantage is its low plasticity and its visual difference from ordinary knitted fabrics. In today's impetuous era of pursuing mavericks, this fabric has gradually disappeared into our vision.

Vibram

Compared to the other "small accessories" mentioned above, they were originally used in other product categories. The now-known rubber sole brand vibram was born on hiking boots.

In 1935, the Italian Vitale Bramnni led a team of climbing teams to encounter blizzards during the expedition of Mount Abis, six of them died because they could not go down in time. Afterwards, Vitale thought it was caused by the hiking boots used at the time. At that time, the bottom of the hiking boots was made of leather, and then nailed to the bottom of the skin, which was very cumbersome and inconvenient to use. Also because of this tragedy, Vitale is committed to the development of a new generation of hiking boots.

In 1973, Vitale Bramnni launched the world's first pair of rubber soles and named it vibram. This special outsole gives the hiking boots outstanding grip and is lightweight and wear resistant.

Over time, vibram has jumped out of the field of hiking boots and extended into a wider variety of shoes to create a variety of shapes. Visvim is one of the brands that have used vibram to customize the soles very early. With advanced materials and pure craftsmanship, the vibram outsole gives the visvim shoes a new level of quality and wear.

Today, vibram has more new forms of development. Matthew M. Williams's 1017 ALYX 9SM introduces the new shoe Virbam Sole Hiking Boots. In addition to the vibram outsole, the shoe features a vibram Arctic Grip non-slip accessory that adds extra grip while making the shoe more futuristic.

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