Created in partnership with Rakuten, brought together thousands of custom sneaker artists from across the US and Europe. With Rakuten’s support, the competition became one of the largest creator-driven sneaker showcases ever produced, giving emerging artists a platform on a global stage. From thousands of entries, just 100 creators were shortlisted by a world-class judging panel featuring leaders across sport, design, music, and sneaker culture. These Top 100 designs formed the Art of the Game Official Collection - a rare, curated snapshot of sneaker culture at its most innovative. The journey concluded in San Francisco, where the finalists were flown out for a filmed finale with the Judges. This finale marked a milestone moment: a celebration of creators, culture, and the evolution of custom sneakers as a legitimate art form. Now, for the first time ever, you can own a piece of this history. Each Top 100 sneaker - whether the original pair or a made-to-order version in your size - represents a creator who rose above thousands to earn their place in this landmark Rakuten x Stephen Curry series. This isn’t just a sneaker. It’s a piece of the Art of the Game legacy - and a chapter in the future of sneaker culture.
“From My Beach to Yours”
Product Details
The name of my entry is “From My Beach to Yours”. The concept behind this shoe starts from the roots of we all come from many places and backgrounds and cultures but we all meet at the same shores (our shared interests, passions etc) with my family being from the Virgin Islands and me being raised in Miami I wanted to pay homage to that culture while also creating a shoe that could allow others to express their own style if the wanted to. The concept of this shoe is that it’s made with tear away canvas that reveals custom glow in the dark fabric that represent the Caribbean and Miami culture.
I used raw material that ties back to virgin island and carribean culture. Since this shoe represents the carribean and Miami, I wanted to use a material that ties into both and since those two areas that get hit with hurricanes the most, I wanted the thicker material on the toe to represent sandbags which is a staple for flooding when hurricanes hit those areas. Created a custom tongue with a zipper that reveals the name of the shoe, written in sand, “from my beach to yours” The outsole is made to represent sand and transitions to an oceanic midsole to represent that shore line. Gold on the heel because the Virgin Islands is known for selling jewelry and gold is part of my culture in fashion, I even have gold teeth lol
One pair is the is sunrise pair (right shoes) and the other being the sunset pair (left shoe) with imagery representing different aspects of the culture that raised me from graffiti in Miami wynwwod, to my mothers plants etc. This pair is what it would look like if I distressed my pair and the concept is if you had a pair yourself you would distress it in a way that connects to you hence the name from my beach to yours.
I wanted to use all the skills I’ve gained over the years to create these bad boys from painting, to sewing, to custom graphics, designing and story telling. We all come from different places but meet at the same shores, so from my beach to yours we are all sharing stories of our culture.
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A HISTORIC COLLABORATION
