Concepts x Red Wing Shoes
by Eugene Kan, February 11, 2009
Following recent work with Canada Goose, Concepts teams up with yet another brand with a strong legacy with the upcoming release with Red Wing Shoes. With a more active collaboration scheme from Red Wings in recent memory, the Concepts joins recent releases including David Z. and Nom de Guere. Concepts’ approach take offers a different style all while maintaining a strong factor of wearability. The boot itself is constructed of brown leather and waxed olive canvas with red laces. A Concepts logo has also been added to the tongue. The boot will release soon at Concepts as well as respected retailers HUF, Alife, St. Alfred and KICKS/HI.
Source: High Snobiety
mike nasson is an idiot. red wings are a great shoe. concepts made them even better.
appreciate the love appreciate the hate Chedda I got u
Concepts all day dope shoe
saw these at the shop today. so much better looking in person. another quality release from the guys at concepts. well done.
wow…talk about a polerizing topic! Personally, I think that they are legit. I don’t own a single pair of boots, but I would definately buy these.
Regardless, take it from someone who has to wear red wing’s for a living they are a quality boot. When your carrying steel all day it’s nice to have your feet feel like you’re wearing Dunk Sb’s.
These shouldn’t be changed whatsoever! Great boots!
sick clean boot. nothin that redwing couldnt have handled themselves, would have liked to see more creativity from the concepts side of the fence.
I think they look pretty nice, but be careful- I bought some Made in China RedWings recently (they were not advertised as such and the same price as the USA made ones) and they are significantly less high quality. It is a sad day when Red Wings are being deceptive in their product offering. The worst part is that when I called to complain about the sole wearing down after 10 uses, the customer service rep said, “are those the ones with the white soles? Yeah… we have had a lot of complaints. They are definitely a lower quality product…” and offered NOTHING to help.
The fact that you were able to list three off the top of your head and can name “a zillion” more shows that the collabs are serving the purpose and getting the name out there and making people remember who we are and what we do, and who we do it with. I think that is a good look.
You could come to Concepts and ask for any of those collabs you listed above and we would not be able to give you one of any of them. I am not sure what is considered light of day, but all of the items you listed sold out fairly quickly too i might add. The exception would be the KS t as that was not designed to hit the shelves because it was more so for employees, friends and family, and members lounge customers. I can see your angle though Real Talk as those may not have received as much “hype” as recent events/projects. They were a success though.
dadid z’s collab does not look any better than these. no way. can’t wait to see these in person, i’m willing to bet those red laces make the shoe.
F-I-R-E
wow these are trash, david z’s collab looks wayyy better than these. dont fuck up the brand shit for brains.
looks like the hells angel wing! hope they dont crash this brand! AFFA
What are you talking about concepts has done a zillion collab’s half of them barley reach the light of day…Hundreds, King Stamped, False, the list goes on. This isn’t a knock at Concepts more at uninformed people.
These are beautiful. The perfect combination of leather and waxed canvas. The red laces remind me of the old hikers. This is a great collab. I would go as far to say that it might be the best Red Wing collab to date. It seems like Concepts is selective about what they put their name on. As a customer I appreciate the fact that they dont collab with just any company. I have seen shop’s throw their name on any and all brands that approach them. At least at Concepts I am getting something current, top of the line quality, and timeless.
don’t do a collab just to do a collab cuz this is what it looks like…ughhh
it needs more colors
thumbs up on this collaboration.
It’s nice looking boot but the whole Red Wing boot thing has been played to death! Someone do something original.