Our friends over at Kickz.com, the self-proclaimed “one and only sanctuary for ballers, sneaker freaks & hip-hop heads,” yesterday unveiled its site reboot. (Guess when you’re 16 years old, a bit of tweaking to the redesign happens every so often.)
Congratulations go out to the Kickz.com sneakermongers on the redo and congratulations, too, on a *nice* redo indeed. The new look is very nice and clean – this writer is extremely partial to the white background and left-hand menu. The headlining picture is done in slideshow format, though the timing is enough for even the less short-attention spanned to appreciate the info presented. Generally, the pingy, blippy, scrolly stuff is kept to a minimum – a serious megaplus in these days of ubiquituous tasteless sales-and-marketing sites in the cybersphere.
And all material is available in English and French as well as default language German.
And the catalog of shoes, magazines, clothes and other things in the aptly-titled “Stuff”/”Ceci et Cela” section is envy-inducing, indeed. A good call by Kickz, then, to have put the sale items toward the top of the homepage.
Sorry, what’s that, you say? Get to the sneaker porn? Sure thing! Enjoy Kickz.com’s new design as you check out some of these beauties…
What would a sneaker shop be without an Air Jordan? Here’s the Air Jordan Fusion 13 (or, inevitably, the “AJF 13”): Perfect for Hall of Fame induction ceremonies.
For the ladies, how about the Reebok Womens Pro Legacy Mid? It’s silver and should really come with sci-fi soundtrack.
Speaking of sci-fi, you gotta love the nuclear green on these Adidas ZX 95s.
Then there’s the Puma Cabana Racer, retro-styled sneakers that actually come in more sedate colors than the previous. Or not, as in the “Octoberfest” variety.
Use the Auto Force...
But back to the outrageous colors! Here’s a sweet couple of Nike Auto Force 180s.
Finally, not quite exactly traditional sneakers at all are the designed-for-outdoors H1KE MK5s – “H1KE, get it?” Now, these are shoes even an avowed sneaker-worshipper like myself could deign to wear.
And by the way, whatever you do, don’t trip onto a “404” page. The guy who’s taken over the And 1 page is positively nightmare-inducing…
