Comme des Garçons Homme Plus x Nike Airmax 2.5 TL

What is interesting about this shoe is where the collaboration is written. There is branding on the heels, on the insoles, and on the bottoms of the soles, which means two of the three placements are invisible when the shoe is on a foot and the third is behind you. That is a specific decision about how loudly a partnership announces itself, and it is consistent with Comme des Garçons Homme Plus, which has spent decades putting its marks where the wearer sees them and nobody else does. The shoe itself is restrained in the same way: a low-top with a curved profile, a rounded toe, a sleek mesh base, and tonal detailing that contrasts rather than clashes. White with black detail. Made in Vietnam.

Why we selected it

Sneaker collaborations are mostly graphics applied to a silhouette. We took this one because the changes are to the profile and the surface rather than to the logo placement, and because the branding is deliberately quiet.

Comme des Garçons Homme Plus has worked with athletic makers for a long time without ever letting the result look like sportswear with a name on it.

Materials and construction

We do not hold a composition for this shoe. What we can tell you: a mesh base, tonal detailing, a curved profile, a rounded toe, and textured outsoles, with branding at the heels, insoles, and bottoms. Made in Vietnam. Color: White w/ Black Detail.

Sizing and dimensions

Held on a US numeric run. We do not hold a width, a last, or any fit guidance from the maker, and we are not going to estimate how this silhouette runs against another one. Please ask us and we will check the pair with you.

Styling

With the Homme Nylon Trousers or the Homme Cargo Jeans, cuffs drawn, since a low-top is worth seeing. Under the Homme Bomber Jacket.

Care

A mesh upper is the part that fails, and it fails by abrasion and by heat. Brush the mesh dry rather than soaking it, clean the sole separately, and keep the whole shoe away from a radiator and out of a machine, both of which unseat the adhesives that hold a sneaker together. Our care guidance covers the rest, including how to handle an object made of more than one material.

Related pieces

The Homme x New Balance 860v2 is a running shoe in suede and mesh, and the x Salomon XT-6 Expanse Platform is a platform version of a trail shoe. Everything we carry from Comme des Garçons is listed together.