Firstname: Uwe (aka xclozx)

Age: 31

Children: not yet

Job: hard to discribe. salesman, designer, driver, staff manager … chief cook and bottle washer, all in one.

Location: Dresden, Germoney

 

 

1/ What was you first pair of sneakers? Any nice story to tell about them?

 

i think it was christmas 1991. it was an all black nubuck nike air force with orange logo details. unfortunately i can’t remember the correct name of this modell. it was a present from my mother. it was my biggest wish to get a pair of nike sneaker. so i was scrambling all the time “mom, i only want some nike shoe, nothing else.” the price for the shoe was 179 marks (ca. 90 euros) and this was relatively a lot of money for a single mother in east germany. i was really happy holding this shoes in my hands. i was wearing them all day and i dare say i was the first kid with nike shoes at my school. it’s funny, because today i do not wear nike shoes anymore.

 

 

2/ How would you generally describe your relation with sneakers? Would you consider yourself as “addicted”?

 

i’m definitely addicted. if i could make money with waisting time on the internet searching for sneakers at ebay or get new information in communities like crooked tongues, i would be a rich man very soon. luckily this ‘interest’ for sneakers returns to normal. so i would forecast the addiction is not incurable.

 

 

3/ According to you, what are the ingredients for a good shoe?

 

first of all its the shape. second thing is the colour variety. but sometimes i think, ‘oh i really like this shoe’, but i do not really know why. but it’s definitely the shape and the colour. you can’t go wrong with a darker, not so colourful running shoe for me.

 

 

4/ How do you feel towards the so-called “sneaker-scene”? How did your feeling evolve over the years?

 

i think i’m not a follower of any scene. i don’t know if there is a sneaker-scene. i know some good guys here in dresden, but wouldn’t go so far and call it a scene. maybe in bigger cities there is a real scene, like the guys i know from berlin. but i have also been a member of some internet communities since a while. i met some really nice people there. maybe we can call this a scene. so i wouldn’t call myself a sneakerhead, i’d say i’m just an ordinary guy.

 

 

5/ What is the sneaker brand you’re giving most interest in at the moment & why?

 

i have reached the point where it is impossible for me to name a favourite footwear brand. maybe it’s still new balance. i love the “made in uk / usa” thing. the quality is mostly great and they have build some of the best decent runningshoe silhouettes in my opinion. but adidas is really growing on me in the last time. some people say new balance shoes are old man runner’s. but the way i see it, adidas is even more an old man’s sports brand. they just have a wider range of classic timeless sneakers. this year i will propably buy more adidas than new balance; not only runing shoes, but also stuff like campus, rod lavers or the like.

 

 

6/ Which shoe that you’ve bought was the hardest to get & how did it occur?

 

sorry, but there is no really exciting story about this. but it was definitely the purple devil 1500. it was not really hard to get this pair, it just took a long time to find a pair in my size that was affordable. now that i have a pair, my next object of desire will be a pair of adidas edbergs. uk 10,5 anyone?

 

 

7/ What is your current sneakers top 5 (shoes you either already have or would wish to)?

 

all time classics:

1. new balance 577

2. saucony jazz

3. adidas la trainer

4. vans era/authentic

 

most wanted:

5. adidas edberg (my most wanted pair, at this time)

 

… and i really need a pair of suedes or clydes in near future.

 

 

8/ Putting sneakers aside, what are your main interests/passions? How do you spend your time? Anything you’d like to make us discover?

 

i do some grafik design stuff. i really love this. but i’m very lazy and slow, why there is not much representative work which could be displayed.

furthermore i really love music. many kinds of music. as a teenager i started listening to punk, hardcore and rap music. later i became more open minded. today, i can delight in jazz & classic. also electronical music is in heavy rotation at my home these days. there is always some music that lets me say ‘wow’. i have been doing mixtapes and mixcd’s over the years, for friends and with friends together. i would say music is my main passion more than sneakers.

 

 

Thanks Uwe!