Sampled introduces listeners to key designers, influencers, and figures of today’s street wear and sneaker culture. Figures that have done most of the work in the background to help build some of our many stapled brands and sneaker collaborations of over the last decade plus. This is a chance to understand the history of how some of your favorite collaborations came to find its way into your closet, A chance to see how the street wear landscape came to be what it is today and where it's headed going forward. Most of us have a beloved story of buying that one sneaker collaboration or that one shirt, here is a chance to hear the stories of the people who’ve helped made those stories come true.
Xavier Jones tells us his sneaker design origin story. Designing for reeboks top athletes. Working with Shaq & Allen Iverson. 23isback & Jayson Mayden influence. Jordan 17 & Wilson Smith influence. Diversity & inclusion the sneaker design industry.
Craig Howard speaks on the future of the champion brand & footwear.
Grammy award winning producer Chase N. Cashe speaks on how he was able to utilize his music platform to catapult Can't Buy Respect, how designing reshaped the trajectory of his career, and meeting Hit-boy with a warrant prior to creating the super producer group 'Surf Club', & more...
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