Hello Kitty x Converse Chuck Taylor All Star Hi 'Flowers'
Colorway: White/Pink/White · Style code: 164629F · Release date: November 21, 2019 · Price: $412 · Availability: Available now
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Sanrio and Converse kept the partnership running after the first Hello Kitty wave landed in August 2018, and this is one of the later pairs. It moves away from the black-based versions toward the palette people expect from the character: a white canvas ground, pink used through the graphics and the trim, and a floral pattern sharing space with Hello Kitty herself rather than the character standing alone.
White canvas is a demanding choice on a high-top, since it marks easily and shows every crease at the collar, but it is also the only background that lets a multi-colour print stay legible. The build is the everyday All Star, unchanged for the partnership, which is the usual arrangement: Converse tends to treat the shoe as a surface to print on rather than a platform to re-engineer. At $95 it sat at the upper end of the collaboration's price range.