When I was a stock associate at Adidas I became inspired to start making shoes. Being a salesman and back of house employee taught me everything about the product in the store beside how it was made. With a curious spirit, countless hours of dedication and experimentation I was able to not just recreate a shoe, I was able to make an original shoe by hand.

As a child my mom and I got into an argument. I was going away for a week in the summer with a friend to a cabin his family owned in maine. As a worried mom, she suggested I take wool socks, as a stubborn kid I wanted to argue and not accept wool socks in the summer time as I was confident they wouldn't be needed. Now this is a running inside joke between my mother and I. As a result, last summer I made a slipper with this joke in mind. Heat reactive slippers. They are lined with faux fur and as temperature changes the shoe will change colors. The shoe changes from gray to white. My mom tried to force me to wear a pair of gray and white socks.

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Sambas, customized, reworked by hand