Coolest Sneakers This Summer Designed by Luxury Brand Koio And Chicago Teen Taisaun Levi

Amid the pandemic, this summer’s coolest sneaker has been designed by luxury sneaker brand Koio with help of Chicago teen Taisaun Levi and it is creating quite a storm.

Luxury sneaker brand Koio has collaborated with Young Chicago Authors and Taisaun Levi to create an exclusive limited edition of the classic Capri Triple White sneaker. Taisaun Levi is the 2019 Indy winner of the Louder Than A Bomb spoken-word contest. The exclusive sneaker has been printed with Levi’s poem.

The project started a year ago when Levi was a student at Chicago's Crane Medical Preparatory High School and took an interest in the YCA Louder Than A Bomb program. Levi, 19, presently in her second year at Columbia College, clarified that, the sonnet isn't just a tribute to Chicago and a tribute to her neighborhood, it's additionally a tribute to every one of these things that individuals generally observe as something negative, however it isn't for her and somebody originating from Englewood.

It is every one of these things that individuals see, similar to, there's everything of these individuals on the transport selling stuff, she said. That can be truly irritating, yet this is a tribute to these individuals, a tribute to the sock man, and to the individuals who sell oils and do these things to make a living for themselves. It is basically an applause to the entirety of that.

When Johannes Quodt the co-founder and CEO of Koio, received the original piece of paper with Levi’s handwritten poem, he felt that it was very powerful and intensely moving. Koio designers discussed different ways to incorporate it onto a shoe without losing its legitimacy, and after numerous models, they chose to print the manually written sonnet all over their Capri Triple White tennis shoe, ripped up  to stress the imaginative procedure of verse. Their choice to work together with Young Chicago Authors was in adoration of the foundation's job in empowering and advancing self-improvement through inventiveness among Chicago's childhood.

Kevin Coval, Artistic Director at Young Chicago Authors and Louder Than a Bomb co-founder said LTAB, which is charged as the biggest youth verse celebration on the planet, attempts to de-emphasize the opposition, yet additionally needs to compensate individuals for their greatness, and that this joint effort seemed well and good. He said that they usually have an award for the Indy champion. The one who is going up against perhaps 900 other youthful essayists from the Chicagoland region. In any case, he doesn’t have the foggiest idea whether it’s been anything as cool as the shoe coordinated effort

What Coval liked about Taisaun’s work in general, and the poem was that that she was not afraid to tell her truth.  She does it in a way that Coval think is relatable, but it’s also very powerful. Her attention to detail is brilliant and on point, he felt.  Her ability to craft and tell her story is what Coval liked the most.

Talking on the procedure and cost of the expensive kicks, which retail for $250, Levi said that she didn't figure it would require such a great amount of exertion to discharge only one shoe, and that the off camera process was exceptionally extraordinary and charming. "The wearer need to think about each and every part of discharging the shoe, how the show will look, who's purchasing the shoe, and what are they accomplishing for individuals inside the network," she said.

100% of the returns of the offer of the shoes are going to three associations. Levi picked GoodKidsMadCity, the Chicago hostile to viciousness bunch drove by Black and earthy colored youth from the South and West sides, Black Lives Matter and Young Chicago Authors, which is parting its third with Levi.

Each pair of the Koio x YCA shoes accompanies a print of Taisaun's unique sonnet and is accessible at koio.co