Shanghai - Soleciety

I got back from a pretty extensive trip last night. Brussels, Melbourne, Shanghai, and Baltimore in a few days. i am happy but tired. I have heaps of posts to type out, so it will probably take a few weeks to get them all sorted out. Here is the first one to get you started.

When i made it to Shaghai, one place that we visted was SOLECIETY. This place is amazing! I do not consider myself a sneakerhead, but this place was impressive for those that have even a rudimentary knowledge of the sneaker game. Basically every Nike shoe that i have read about over the past few years is on display like a museum. The shoes were loaned for the exhibit from Hiroshi, Stash, and every other heavy hitter you can imagine. The grand opening is next week and from what i heard, Futura, Stash, Hiroshi, Edison Chen, and Jeff Staple may be flying in for the opening. Thats one hell of a line up.

We had the chance to sit down and talk with Tom Chung, one of the three owners of Soleciety. Hanjin Tan, adn Edison Chen are the other two owners, but they werent there when we stopped by. Tom is a super humble guy and no pretense or ego.

Normally pictures are not allowed, but Tom was kind enough to allow me to go crazy with the camera so i took these photos.

If you want to read a bit more on the Soleciety life, you can peep Tom's blog over at UrbanLook. We had the chance to meet with Himm, one of the founders of UrbanLook while we were in Shanghai, but more on that later.

Here is Tom with all his shoe goodness:

Tom, Sixten, and Allen shooting the shit:

My long lost Chinese brother, Jimmy Au from Red Agency

Look at this shop. this is nuts. clean, very very clean

because i am a bit neurotic, i took shots of every single case in the shop. figured if i was taking 10 shots, why not go the distance and document all of them

would hate to bore you with shots of every single shoe that was in the shop, but here are a few of them.