Converse Chuck Taylor All Star High 'Pride Lightning Bolt'
Colorway: White/Multi/Black · Style code: 165715C · Release date: May 6, 2019 · Price: $121 · Availability: Available now
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Converse released three Chuck Taylor All Star designs together on 6 May 2019 for its Pride range, and this is the graphic-led one. Lightning bolts in rainbow gradients strike across a white canvas upper, repeated at different angles so the pattern reads as movement rather than a neat repeat, with black used on the laces, the eyelets and the outline details to keep the colours from bleeding into each other visually.
White gives the multicolour print the contrast it needs, though it is the least forgiving base colour on a high-top. Beneath the artwork the shoe is unchanged, down to the vulcanised rubber sidewall that is bonded to the canvas with heat rather than glued on as a separate unit. At $65 it was priced in line with an ordinary printed canvas high-top rather than as a premium release.