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Summer Sixteen: A Polaroid Retrospective

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It’s official: Summer’s over, and fall is upon us.

Starting in June and ending in August, I took Polaroids of my friends (or enlisted them to take one if I’m in the picture) on a Fujifilm Instax Mini 8. They may be made into a book within the next few months, but I thought it only right to premiere them right here on KicksOneTwo  These are the faces of Summer Sixteen in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Enjoy!

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I had a great deal of fun shooting all of these photos, and am extremely thankful to have so many awesome people around me all summer. Ya’ll are the best. read more


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TODAY: Fall Festival Block Party On Como Ave

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It’s going down on Como Avenue today.

Piff Minneapolis is hosting the “Fall Festival” block party on Como Avenue, right in front of the “I’m Feeling Good” mural by the shop from 3PM-7PM. The event is completely free to attend … but if you do feel like donating money, Football Pizza, Blue Door Pub, and Black Coffee and Waffle Bar will be donating a percentage of their sales to the Minneapolis Boys and Girls Club, so you can eat good and feel good at the same time. That’s a rare opportunity, so it’s definitely one you want to take advantage of when it comes around. read more


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Top 5 Sneaker Releases This Weekend

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What a crazy week in sneakers.

It’s Friday. The weekend isn’t even upon us yet, and we’ve already been blessed with some dumb fire, courtesy of Nike x Supreme (Blazers), and Nike x Acronym (Prestos).

That’s just the tip of the iceberg though. This weekend is one of the most loaded sneaker release weekends in recent memory with collabs and premium releases galore dropping … so you already know we had to rank our 5 favorites. We’ve gotta say: in all our years of ranking jawns we’ve never had this much difficulty creating a list, but we somehow managed to make the tough decisions and narrow all the releases down to just 5. Let’s get right to it. read more


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A Fond Farewell To The Triple White Ultra Boost

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The Triple White Ultra Boost: a shoe that truly never shows any signs of slowing down. It’ll restock, sell out, restock, sell out again, restock again, sell out again. It’s fall now, and the temperature is getting cooler which usually means it’s time to put the white kicks away, but you still see that all-white Ultra Boost everywhere you go.

Well, all good things (and fire jawns) must come to an end sooner or later. Adidas has announced that the Triple Whites will restock one last time on their online store this month … and then they’ll be done, as the Three Stripes will be moving on to whatever new fire they’ve got coming out. read more


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Verne Troyer Unboxing His Yeezy 350’s Is The Best Thing You’ll See All Week

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We love the Austin Powers series here at KicksOneTwo. The crazy, over-sexualized spy has brought us a lot of laughs, and so has his supporting cast of characters, like Fat Bastard and Mini-Me. The movies were a large part of our childhood, so any time someone from the films is in the news, we like to see what’s going on

So you already know we were in for a treat this week when we saw that Mini-Me himself, Verne Troyer, was sent a pair of Yeezy 350 Boosts (in infant sizes, of course … he is Mini-Me after all), we couldn’t wait to see the video for ourselves. read more


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TONIGHT: “Kithland”, Kith’s First Ever Runway Show

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We love Kith here at KicksOneTwo. Their aesthetic is sporty yet clean and refined, they crank out consistently good product year after year, and they’re always cooking up crazy collabs, like their recently announced Bergdorf Goodman partnership, consisting of a Kith shop within the legendary store, and a co-branded line of apparel. Ronnie Fieg stays winning, and despite all the naysayers … he can do no wrong.

So, needless to say, we were thrilled when the news broke that Kith would be hosting their first-ever runway show, “Kithland” during New York Fashion week. We were even more stoked when it was announced that Kithland would be live-streamed on the Kith website for those of us not lucky enough to be in New York for the event. read more


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Two Must-Attend September Events

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September: an interesting month. School’s back in full swing. Football’s just starting up. Summer is mostly over, and fall is just starting. You haven’t quite retired your summer sneaker rotation, but you haven’t quite broken out the fall rotation yet. It’s a month of transition.

And this year, with that transition comes two great events for sneakerheads, fashionistas, musicians, artists, and anyone else who’s looking to link with like-minded individuals, make connections, and have a great time: Piff’s Fall Festival block party, and Studiiyo23’s TSCAX8. read more


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TODAY: Yeezy Season 4 Live Stream On Tidal

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It’s a big day for the culture today. There’s a Supreme drop, featuring a Dash Snow collab. Palace has a drop in the evening. And most importantly, Kanye West’s Yeezy Season 4 show will be premiering live on Tidal at 3PM ET (that’s 2 PM Minneapolis time for those of you who don’t understand time zones).

No matter if you love or hate ‘Ye, you can’t deny that his Yeezy Season shows are a big deal. The industry turns out en masse, and it seems that the whole world stops what they’re doing to watch his fashion shows. There’s a lot of controversy surrounding this one, as the Internet seems to be in an uproar over his casting call for “bi-racial models”, and he’ll be premiering his much-discussed kids line as well. read more


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Boost All Year: The Ultra Boost ATR Is Here For The Fall/Winter

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We’re damn near 3/4 of the way done with 2016 already (can you believe it?), and through all the ups and downs of the sneaker year, and all the trends that came and went, one shoe that remained steadfastly dope was the Ultra Boost. The new 2.0 version rolled out with a myriad different colors and Continental rubber bottoms for increased durability, making the Ultra Boost one of the hottest shoes of the year.

But as anyone who has owned or currently owns a pair knows, they’re not the most hardy shoes in the world. They are runners after all, and they’re not really designed to take a beating in the winter months. Thankfully, Adidas knows this and has designed an Ultra Boost ATR, a shoe designed for more inclement conditions that. read more


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The First Images Of The Jordan I “Top Three” Have Leaked

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As we repeatedly make it clear, we’re huge Jordan I fans at KicksOneTwo. We’re generally skeptical of new colorways as we prefer OG’s *adjusts fitted cap and pulls up sagging cargo shorts*, but we were cautiously optimistic about the release of the Jordan I “Top Three”, as we stated in an article a little over a week ago.

So here we are. We promised we’d keep you, our beloved readers, updated on the shoe and the first leaked images of the are upon us. Our first thoughts upon seeing the images? Not bad. Not bad at all. read more


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