My friend Ricky is a busy man. He owns the shops called LimitEditions in Barcelona that have some of the finest sneaker selections around. He also owns the Slam Jam Chapter of BCN known as Chikashitsu. He also owns the Opium BCN shop that has one of the best Jordan selections in the world. And if that wasn’t enough, he put together one of the illest collections of deadstock kicks I have ever seen. It’s not open to the public. It’s in a converted 5 bedroom apartment and it’s basically a shrine to all things kicks. What was supposed to be a 5 minute stopover turned into a 4 hour session of oooh’s, aaah’s and tears of joy. I picked up some H-E-A-T that I will show in the near future. Stay tuned.
僕の友人Rickyは忙しい男です。バルセロナでLimitEditionsというすばらしいスニーカーセレクションを誇るお店を持っています。BCNのSlam Jam支部のお店、Chikashitsuも持っています。また、世界一ともいえるJordanのセレクションを誇るOpium BCNのショップのオーナーでもあります。それでもかといわんばかりに、最高級のデッドストックのキックスのコレクションを持つ人でもあります。それは公開していません。すべて５部屋あるアパートにあり、キックスが祭られている聖堂のようです。５分間のちょっとした寄り道のはずが、オォ〜、ワ〜と感激の涙あふれる４時間の滞在になりました。僕はいくつかのH-E-A-Tをゲットしたので、またあとでお見せします。お楽しみに。
The mysterious entrance….不思議な入り口。
Yes. Nothing but O.G. そう。O.G.しかありません。
Are you serious??? マジですか？？
True heads will know what these boxes mean. 真のスニーカーヘッズはこの箱の意味を知っています。
Not just The Swoosh…Swooshだけではありません。。。
Patrick Ewings!!! Darrin Hudson had these. I was pissed. Patrick Ewings!! Darrin Hudsonも持っていた。うらやましかった。
This is just about how I dream my bedroom to look like. 僕の夢のベッドルームはこんな感じです。
The Saucony Grid.
Running Converse.
Stacks and stacks of Js. 積み重なったJsの山。
The holy grail? Signed OG AJ1s. 聖杯？サイン入りのOG AJ1s。
Lord…神よ。。。
PS: Did I mention Ricky’s bathroom? 追伸：Rickyのトイレ見ましたか？
what. the. fuck.
Are you sure that was Rickys place or was it Heaven?
This post single-handedly just made snearkereads around the world cry.
FUCCCCKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKK!
Everytime I see AJ1′s, I cringe. Back when I was a sophomore or junior in high school, musta been roughly 1986-88 or so, the local Big Five eventually had a clearance sale of the red/black AJ1′s for… it pains me to say it… TWENTY-FIVE BUCKS!!!
Back in the day, it was kinda embarrassing to wear such “loud” shoes, so me and my dad (who was a balla btw!) bought a pair each, but we hardly wore ‘em. And you know, back in the day, you wore ‘em when you played in ‘em. It was less of a fashion statement and more of a basketball statement. If you wore those shoes, you had to fly like Mike. We felt awkward wearing those AJ1′s.
Funny how Big Five (and me and my dad, yeah I know) was literally sitting on a gold mine! Alas, I did what I did to all my old Nikes: threw ‘em out or donated them. Pity.
dude…