What happened to huge sports shoes? They are getting smaller

After years of larger sport shoes than ever, it seems somewhat about a violent reaction: I have become elegant, simple, and single sporty shoes.

“There was a shift, and I think it was in the fall of 2023, when I saw a lot of sambas in the street, with this slow sole,” said Federico Parace, deputy head of men at the Canadian e -commerce site, citing the famous Adidas style. “People began to get some fatigue with these large sneakers and old sneakers.”

Modern corridors were mired in the dynamic and delusional dynamic versions, starting from the radiance -like Prada shoes with the opening of its flexible foot (975 dollars) to the Dries Van Noten deer shoes ($ 475) that referred to running shoes in the 1970s. Ganni Little Ballerina Lace-UPS ($ 495) offers, while Maison Margiela has released an anchor and square countryside ($ 820) for her famous themes. MIU MIU, the Cool Girl, recently released the Low-PROFILE PLUME ($ 895), an elegant participant in Slim Sneaker Sharia.

The large brands of sportswear have taken this file -like silhouette. The classic Puma Speedcat, which was first presented in 1999, brought retirement last summer, while Adidas revived the Taikwondo and Tokyo models. Nike revives a total of 90 III, with a future feeling and external ligaments, this spring and summer; In late January, designer Jimmos sent a horizontal satellite shoe, which was presented in 1972, at the bottom of it as part of cooperation with the company. In addition to the smaller and elegant appearance, these patterns often have a pointed smooth, pointed profile, closer to a bullet. Or, as GQ recently called “Torbid sneakers.”

“It really benefits the major brands that were present for a long time enough to get shoes of those ages such as the 1960s and 1970s,” said Brendan Dan, who heads a sport shoe coverage in the complex and who also named Samba’s popularity as a motivation for the current movement. “One of the interesting things that occurs in the consumption of sports shoes at the moment is to climb brands such as ON ON or Hoka that takes the market share of major brands. If you are thinking about Slim Sneaker, I don’t think about or can Hoka can participate in it because they are everything about shoes and artistic shoes that contain more circle.”

In line with the periodic nature of the fashion, these shoes can be considered as a pendulum swing away from what happened before, in the best way, clear from the triglycer Balenciaga shoe. He created this shoe, with its building sole, an obsession with Brawnier shoes and led to the popularity of my father’s “shoes” from brands such as New Balance and ASIC. In the search for modernity, brands now confront the slim designs. (Balenciaga, it should be noted, remained devoted to its greatest-IS-Ibetter.)

These shoe shows are also a reaction to the changing change in wearing ready -made clothes, which is a silhouette of dominant clothes on clothes that dominate clothes, which are particularly shown in the appearance of comfortable whole trousers. Mr. Parace said: “The slim pants and jeans fade.” “You can design it with the wider pants, and Bel-Tottoms, which are now heading.”

Wide -legged pants are so much that they have created to the official corrosion category, as shown from the bright treasury such as Coleman Domingo and Apollo and Robert Downey Junior at the Oscars last week.

Mr. Dan said: “The shape of the shoes and the shape of the pants we wear, and there is this reverse connection.” “Look back eight years ago when every rapper was wearing tight jeans and trainers in the giant Paliniga. Now it is the opposite: low slim silhouette and giant pants.”

In addition, these shoes depend on the already crowded overlap between sports and fashion. They invest activities such as fighting arts, climbing rocks, wrestling, and even permanent popularity to worry about the ballet.

“There are all these neighboring shoes, or low shoes, which put us in this region,” said Mr. Dan. “I think about something like Salomon XT-6, and it is not in the same area, necessarily, but it puts us, it blocks the gap between the hoax shoes and this.”

These sports shoes also remember the famous Y2K shoes, which is some time before Internet, which now continues to throw a talisman on young generations.

“I remember the Brada America Cup, and everyone wanted this athletic shoe,” said Mr. Parasi, about the future patent sport shoe and a lecture of technical networks presented in 1997.

Torben Schumacher, who is supervised by Adidas originals, the company’s fashion and lifestyle department, said, as soon as the company noticed the popularity of Samba and Gazelle Styles, I started searching for new models to revive its archive, said Torben Schumacher, who supervises Adidas originals, the company’s fashion and lifestyle department. Ultimately, it landed on Tokyo and Taekwondo.

“The latter has been designed for athletes in the field of martial arts in the first decade of the twentieth century, but one look at the shoe and you can immediately conceive on a runway or city street,” said Mr. Schumacher in an email. However, Mr. Schumacher wrote that regardless of the cultural factors that lead us to this moment, it may have been the most convincing cause of wearing slim shoes is the most obvious: “There is a feeling of effort for these low patterns – whether in style or in function.”