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Sometimes, with our Yankophile tendencies, we forget that we're a British entity, but had to rep for our nation with these releases. Even if the lacing is terrible (we never took these shots). adidas are an official Olympic Games sponsor, so they're going to make the most of that affiliation, starting with some patriotic-looking Originals colourways that were put together with mass appeal in mind. And seeing as the Union Jack shades match the classic USA, NBA and ...

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The quest for the perfect Uptown has seen the Nike Air Force 1 go through a few incarnations. The white-on-white is the definitive presentation of the shoe too — super plain, easygoing with any outfit and a shoe that's an industry in itself. As the Air Force 1 is on the verge of hitting its dirty thirties next year, its making one last bid to go clean with this VT Vac Tech variation. We've already written about how much ...

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The boom in hiking style's got every brand plucking offroad styles out the cupboards, but Reebok have always had a couple of pieces worthy of a revisit. The Night Sky isn't hype fodder. The collaboration with Call of the Wild that added GORE-TEX to the Night Sky was a banger that appeared a few seasons too soon. The more recent 10.Deep colourway was good too, with the silhouette being the perfect vessel to channel some late 1980s ...

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The adidas Originals NPN Torsion is the latest addition to the glut of Torsion remixes that the brand's put out of late, but it's a very good shoe. The recent update on our beloved Torsion EQT Support caused some foul language in the office and we were split on those supersize bars, but this is a very restrained post-KZK effort. We liked the DB and James Bond attempt at a Torsion-aided Field Boot look, but this is a ...

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We're late to the party again with these, but they had to be included here. Especially given theSaucony Grid 9000 colourways that are due to drop next season beyond the Elite collection. And forget the deeply crappy De Niro and Statham effort that just hit the screens, because these are the real killer Elite — lavish suedes, various types of mesh — from an appropriately Grid-like pattern to more traditional types and across four colourways, no real solitary mode of colour ...

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These Crooked Tongues and New Balance 1500s are finally getting a release. It feels like they've been in development for a while (the Flimby factory is busy and getting a window for production can be a challenge), but they're currently being made — in fact, our buddies at New Balance gave us some images of the production process that we'll up on the site next week. In the meantime, here's the press release text...we're not ...

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Usually we pad out the Crooked Tongues News with unnecessary paragraphs Not this time. We thought we'd drop a preview of our latest collaboration with our friends at New Balance. We don't like those wacky little teasers with the extreme closeup, or a daft blur that you have to squint at, so we thought we'd just show you the shoes in their pre-built form before we show you the finished article. They're scheduled to go on ...

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We like the LeBron series a lot. The build up to release usually runs as follows: anticipation, inevitable leak, grumbling that it's not as good as a previous installment, then a declaration that it's the best yet. The inaugural black and red always lets us see the shoe in the best light too, and guess what? Our dude Jason Petrie and the team at Nike Basketball done did it again. We won't lie — we loved the leather ...

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We've been waiting for samples of the Nike Sportswear Wheat VT pack for a little while and we got bored, so we decided to use stock images. These pictures are pretty, but we wanted to showcase how sick that Wheat AF1 Hi is in the flesh. We love AF1s and we love Timbs, so the merger of the two is a beautiful thing indeed. The Goadome was Nike's official response to the reign of the 6-inch Workboot's ...

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1973's Nike Match wasn't the kind of shoe too many people would get too nostalgic for. A Bruin-style toe on a tennis design, with a young swoosh being sidelined in line with the court rules of the time (brilliantly at odds with the Hot Lava branding that would invade tennis at the end of the next decade) isn't the stuff that psychological deadstock vaults are keeping on a platinum plinth. But this shoe sho' is wearable. When ...

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We know everybody couldn't make the CT NSW BBQ the other week, because of various responsibilities or global location. Here's some good news — for whatever reason, we've got ten remaining pairs of the very, very limited Infrared Nike Sportswear Infrared Air Max 90 Hyperfuse to give away to those who deserve it. This shoe is promo-only and not for sale. We won't be selling it either. People have tried to bribe us over the last ten ...

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The PUMA Clyde seems to be getting some good non-suede treatments from Undefeated at the moment. The canvas takes were very, very smartly executed and continuing the retailer's current winning streak with matt materials, these ripstop variations are pretty good too. With ballistic nylon promised next, it's clear that UNDFTD are opting for crowd-pleasers on this simple shoe to open it up to a different audience who don't care too much for the Clyde's powerful signature ...

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How many iterations of the Uptown can we take? Quite a few as it happens. The Foamposite variation was a a startling way to see a Nike Air Force 1, but it was so dumb that we found ourselves smitten with it and the Hyperfuse version was insane in its seamless execution. After we saw Vac Tech on some mehhh Jordan 1s and some Royal Hi makeovers that were pretty nondescript, we never had it down as an application to ...

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We're not sure which lyric pertaining to MJ's choice of outerwear amuses us the most — 50 Cent's threat to, "leave ya lookin like the Michael Jackson jackets wit all them zippers", Drake's boast that, "all I need's a fucking red jacket with some zippers" or Royce da 5'9“s proclamation that he, "could aim well enough to shoot the zippers off your Thriller jacket." They're all classic. That and the legendary forum beef ...

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You didn't think we wouldn't use the Nike MAG's release as an excuse for a mild geek out session did you? We like catching up with Mr. Tinker Hatfield — he's candid, enthusiastic about his work and surprisingly non-corporate during interviews. That's why — alongside Mr. Eugene Kan from Hypebeast — we had a sit down with Tinker and footwear innovation lead Tiffany Beers for a MAG-centric conversation to commemorate the release of the shoe. From the sketches ...

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We love press trips, but this one was kept hush-hush in a major way. We even tried the Larry David eye stare to spot any glances away when we asked (as we have done for at least four years), "Is the Air Mag coming out again?" But everybody stayed schtum on some mafia omerta steez. You all know the stories by now — hotel room iPod Shuffles with Christopher Lloyd's voice on them, accompanied by a replica of the Doc ...

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The Nike Vortex has been getting plenty of love from Nike lately. It's one of our personal favourites in the sneaker stakes, but we're glad that the V-Series is a sacred shoe at Nike HQ too, with several of today's key players at the company involved in the development of the collection. Almost as good as the legendary Nike Epic, the Vortex embodies the running boom spirit of 1985, with Nike on the verge of their technology ...

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Errol's a top bloke. Not only is he a great photographer who paid the Crooked Tongues BBQ a visit (and for proof of that you can check the Flickr right HERE), but despite a guestlist mishap on Sunday, he took these shots and passed them onto us. They capture the feel of the roof garden, the characters who attended and how many intoxicated people were in the building. Great to see so many talented camera-wielders in the place, but ...

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Our extended family at Patta have kept the collaborations a little more low key this year in line with their pledge to hold off a little after their fifth anniversary dual-label onslaught. The Patta and KangaROOS releases follow the spirit of the Warrior and Staedler project by seemingly coming out of nowhere, with ties to a brand that's a little different. We won't front. When we heard that Patta were collaborating with KangaROOS, we didn't know what ...

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Before we commence with the BBQ coverage, there's the not-so-small matter of this shoe to discuss. We were looking for something extra for yesterday's celebrations and our friends at Nike UK came through with this little masterpiece. We wouldn't be so churlish as to describe it as a Crooked collaboration or SMU, but rather a Crooked BBQ exclusive for the folks that made an effort yesterday. We love the Infrared Air Max 90. This might be a ...

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And like that, the BBQ is over for another year. The scale of this annual event seems to have steadied, but the locations change. We've learnt a few lessons over the years — don't have so many powerful vibes from Rodigan that the paint melts onto everybody's shoes, try to feed more than 100 people and try not to cause an epic wait outside. Well, two out of three isn't too bad. Apologies and thanks to those ...

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What's with all the impending big shoes? Not nearly as banging as the Nike Sportswear Meriwether (which is the kind of shoe that's deeply underrated before it's even released), but still proof of an ACG renaissance, the Air Max Conquer ACG is a bruiser of a boot. Once again, we appreciate that this one isn't to all tastes, but we've long been fans of the Nike ACG Goadome, a shoe created for an urban consumer ...

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PUMA's shadowy secret colourway army done did it again. The Suede and the States have never looked so similar, but we don't care and pictures like this don't do these releases justice. The leather lace pouches are an unexpectedly lavish touch, but they certain allay the sinking feeling that's all too common when you break open a shoebox these days — bad build and toxic fumes that take a couple of years off your lifespan are what ...

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This is the kind of shoe we live for in the office. The Tallac Lite gave us a fix of oddball ACG progression several winters ago — as did the Ashiko (though they were hard to shift, but it was reassuring to hear that they were popular in some Nike boot hotspots in Philly), but its been a while since we saw something equally amazing. Until we set eyes on the Nike Sportswear Meriwether. It's better than the Takao Mids ...

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crooked tongues magazine News Features

adidas Originals Team GB collection

Nike Sportswear Air Force 1 Low White on White Premium VT

Reebok Night Sky Mid

adidas Originals NPN Torsion Mid

Saucony & Bodega Elite Grid 9000

Crooked Tongues & New Balance Made in England 1500s

Crooked Tongues & New Balance: October 2011

Nike LeBron 9

Nike Sportswear VT Wheat pack

Nike Sportswear Match Classic Quickstrikes

CT Nike Sportswear Air Max 90 Hyperfuse Infrared '2-A-Day' Giveaway

PUMA x Undefeated Ripstop Clydes

Nike Sportswear Pewter Air Force 1 High "Vac Tech"

Supra 413 'Thriller' Thunder

Nike MAG: Tinker Hatfield Q&A

2011 Nike MAG

Nike Sportswear Suede Air Vortex

CT BBQ 2011 pictures by Errol Photography & the video

Patta x KangaROOS Q&A

Nike Air Max 90 Hyperfuse 'Infrared' #ctnswbbq2011

Crooked Tongues & Nike Sportswear Present(ed) the CT BBQ 2011

Nike Sportswear Air Max Conquer ACG

PUMA Shadow Society States: Second Drop

Nike Sportswear Zoom Meriwether ACG

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