Dr. Woo x Converse Chuck 70 'White'
Colorway: White/Green Absinthe · Style code: 162978C · Release date: September 6, 2018 · Price: $148 · Availability: Available now
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Wear to reveal is a rare thing to engineer into a shoe deliberately. The upper on this Chuck 70 is built in two layers of canvas, white on the outside and green absinthe underneath, so every scuff at the toe, the foxing line and the flex point takes off a little of the top layer and exposes the colour below. Nothing is printed to look distressed; the distressing does the work.
Dr. Woo framed the project around the breakdown of a shoe being the interesting part, which is consistent with the first Converse pair he worked on and its fraying spider embroidery. A black high-top revealing sunset gold ran alongside this one, and two further pairs in the release carried fixed printed patterns that do not change with use. A waterproof coaches jacket completed the collection. It released on 6 September 2018 at 99 dollars, on the usual Chuck 70 platform: higher foxing, one-piece rubber outsole, OrthoLite footbed.