Owen, K and Owen, PB (2022) Sole-Zine featured at 'Big Ideas' Exhibition, LJMU. 'Big Ideas' Exhibition, 8th June 2022, Liverpool John Moores University. [Show/Exhibition]

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Abstract

Sneakers, trainers, kicks, webs, strides, soles, creps, beaters, trabs or trainees, whatever you call your footwear, there is a particular tribe who are obsessive about their footwear...

Sneaker enthusiasts are attached to their possessions unlike any other sub-culture. Obsession, Style, and Place is an ongoing project intended to highlight specific sub-groups who live significantly for sneakers. From the birth of the Terrace Casual, the unique seekers and the under-represented sectors born out of this culture. Emphasising this much-loved fashion area gives rise to the tribes and cohesive socio-groups who define and are defined by values and tensions around status, belonging and the need for individuality.

This research offers new insight from stories from the terraces, provides opportunity to view rare, original, and vintage sneakers that informed the birth of the Casuals in Liverpool, UK. To those who subscribe to the pimping up of their sneakers and those not yet heavily featured. Early and emerging research regarding the under-representation of ‘Restorers, Convertors and Customisers’ within the Sneakerhead community. Including the shortage of stories being told in terms of Menswear, it’s past, present, and future status contextualises and places the subject within arenas for larger debate, thus raising awareness, and bridging gaps within the field.

Item Type:	Show/Exhibition
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Sneakers; Subculture; Obsession; Style; Place
Subjects:	N Fine Arts > N Visual arts (General) For photography, see TR N Fine Arts > NC Drawing Design Illustration N Fine Arts > NX Arts in general
Divisions:	Art and Design
Related URLs:	http://www.owenstudio.co.uk/
SWORD Depositor:	A Symplectic
Date Deposited:	26 Feb 2025 16:35
Last Modified:	26 Feb 2025 16:35
URI:	https://researchonline.ljmu.ac.uk/id/eprint/25471

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