When I thought about revisiting designs of the past for our Spring 2015 line, I thought about my time working at Nike. Why you might ask? Well during that time, I came up with the idea to put Illest on a T-Shirt (circa 2006) which in turn turned into our brand thats now known worldwide. Amazing.

It all happened thru this blog, fatlace.com. So as I thought about making this season simple yet special, I contacted one of my friends from my old stomping grounds, Ben aka BenSlammin. Artist extraordinaire and I thought it would be cool if we did something as a collaboration of the things he and I enjoyed. Ben knew I was very much into cars and sneakers and so was he so why not mix the two. The following 4 designs are the result. You can also find these in T-shirt form right here on our online store.

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The Lunar GTR based off my old BenSopra GTR & Lunars, another one of my favorite shoes.

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The RWYeezy911. RAUH-Welt Begriff meets Yeezy.

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The S30Max

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and Finally the PanelMax based on my personal Sliding Panel VW and my favorite sneaker of all time, the Air Max.

Mark Arcenal

Creative Director at Arcenal
Lived the Agency life for over a decade and then moved to client side and helped in launching the biggest brand Nike has to date, Nike Sportswear as the Global Digital Lead.

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