Kanye West for Louis Vuitton Sneaker

Here’s an official image of one of the shoes featured in the Kanye West and Louis Vuitton collaboration. With simple styling and a bold red color, these sneakers feature a special quilted flap on the back heel for your jeans.

Here’s more info from the press release:

PARIS — Marc Jacobs and the Louis Vuitton men’s studio director Paul Helbers have some design competition this season. Kanye West, who was sitting front row at the Vuitton show, has designed a line of five LV sneakers. Only one design, above, was featured in the show — a monochromatic midtop with no frills, save for a quilted flap in the back, all the easier to tuck pants into.

“The inspiration came from a jacket with a huge collar in the movie ‘Dune,’ ” West says. “Most sneakers focus on the tongue, so I wanted to do something different.” West knows whereof he speaks: he says he has no idea how many shoes he owns, but he does know that he routinely needs to send shipments off to storage.

The Louis Vuiltton-Kanye West shoes will be available at Louis Vuitton stores in June 2009.

Via The Moment

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