Nicholas Smith

Kicks (Bok)

A cultural history of sneakers, tracing the footprint of one of our most iconic fashions across sports, business, pop culture, and American identity When the athletic shoe graduated from the beaches and croquet courts of the wealthy elite to streetwear ubiquity, its journey through the heart of American life was just getting started. In this rollicking narrative, Nicholas K. Smith carries us through the long twentieth century as sneakers became the totem of subcultures from California skateboarders to New York rappers, the cause of gang violence and riots, the heart of a global economic controversy, the lynchpin in a quest to turn big sports into big business, and the muse of high fashion. Studded with larger-than-life mavericks and unexpected visionariesfrom genius rubber inventor, Charles Goodyear, to road-warrior huckster Chuck Taylor, to the feuding brothers who founded Adidas and Puma, to the track coach who changed the sport by pouring rubber in his wifes waffle ironKicks introduces us to the sneakers surprisingly influential, enduring, and evolving legacy.

Författare:	Nicholas Smith
Titel:	Kicks
Typ:	Bok
Kategori:	Böcker/Samhälle & Politik/Samhälle & Politik
Releasedatum:	2019-04-30
Artikelnummer:	795282
Lagerstatus:	Beställningsvara Leveranstid: från 14 vardagar
EAN:	9780451498120
ISBN:	0451498120
Språk:	Engelska
Bandtyp:	Pocket
Mått(BxHxD):	131x203x18 mm
Omfång:	320 sidor
Vikt:	244 gram
Titel:	Kicks
Förlag:	Random House US