Dear Mum, For Christmas I would like... Adidas ZX450 Livestock

Whenever I go to Paris, I make sure I go to Colette. It's just the coolest place in the world. I felt fully justified in holding this opinion when I read a couple of years ago that, for Victoria Beckham's birthday, David Beckham put his credit card at the cash desk and told her to go crazy. The lucky bitch.

I discovered the Colette website soon after my first visit to the shop on Rue Saint-Honore, and it's even cooler than the shop. There's a constant soundtrack of funky new tracks from the likes of Roots Manuva, and you can fast forward and rewind using the little widget in the corner.

There's even a set of Blogs, which are as cool as you would expect. I mean, just look at the blogging page!



So, what do I want for Christmas? In short, trainers. Sneakers, if you will. Yes, according to my Seinfeld-quoting friend Marc, I have a Peter Pan complex. Yes, I know that quote is actually made by Kramer about Seinfeld.

Anyway, the reason I was going on about Colette is that I found some great sneaks on their site. I have a particular fetish for Adidas stuff, possibly down to my unbranded childhood attire, and the ZX450 Livestock may not be the most colourful kicks on the market, but they float my boat, and people take the piss when I wear particularly bright footwear.



The ZX450 Livestock is part of the Adidas Consortium AZX Collaboration Project, celebrating 24 years of the successful ZX line with an alphabet-based series of creatons by celebrated retailers such as Livestock and, of course Colette. There's more information on the project on the Colette site and a couple of videos of the project on Sneakerset here and here.



I've also now fallen in love with the Colette ZX300, pictured below and featured on Hypebeast, but it appears to have sold out. Better grab 100 Euros and get my ZX450 Livestocks...