Institutional British luxury brand Burberry Prorsum‘s latest leather shoes exemplify the artisan expertise that the label embodies. The cork soled shoes feature a tumbled brown leather upper, patterned woven inserts and a patterned navajo print toebox. You can find the Woven Top Cork Sole Leather Shoes — fresh for Spring / Summer 2012 — at […]

Well known for lending their luxurious (and often heinously ostentatious) touch to world class halo vehicles (Aston Martin, Bentley, Ferrari, Porsche, Rolls Royce — and who could forget their gold and carbon fiber laced Bugatti Veyron?) since 1989, German custom tuning house Mansory are dipping their diamond-tipped toes into the motorcycle game. Developed in collaboration […]

Maison Martin Margiela loves their white — the more white, the better. Taking this mindset to an extreme, MMM took some already off-white suede high-top sneakers and slathered them in white paint, creating their aptly named White Painted High-tops for their Spring/Summer 2011 collection. The shoes feature a natural gum rubber sole which is partly […]

The saddest aspect of GM’s burying the Pontiac badge last year was surely the end of the proud Firebird lineage. After all its predecessor, the GTO, was the first muscle car ever made — the brainchild of Pontiac chief engineer John DeLorean when he had the epiphany of stuffing a Pontiac Bonneville’s V8 engine into […]

Parisian luxury house Lanvin have taken two traditional boot shapes and given them the subtle sneaker treatment for their 2011 Spring/Summer Collection. GQ gives us the first look of Lanvin’s chukka above, constructed of a slightly stressed woven upper. There’s also a hiking boot-looking high-top sneaker after the Jump, both styles sharing what head designer […]