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Yahoo
13 hours ago
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Tyler, the Creator Dusts Off Converse's Archives to Release 2 New Sneakers
All products and services featured are independently chosen by editors. However, Billboard may receive a commission on orders placed through its retail links, and the retailer may receive certain auditable data for accounting purposes. Tyler, the Creator took a closer look at Converse's shoe archives, unearthing two styles that he just needed to upgrade. More from Billboard Nerd-Approved DC x Sonic the Hedgehog Toy Set Has Arrived at Target Fisher-Price Drops 'Harry Potter' Little People Collector's Set: Here's Where to Buy It Online FKA Twigs Proves 'The Body is Art' With These Utilitarian Pieces From Her On Running Collaboration Paying homage to the cultural zeitgeist of the past and present, the 1908 collection centers around two shoe silhouettes — the Naut-1 and Coach Jogger. Both footwear silhouettes marry both old and new, keeping true to their original models, but with a Tyler twist. Converse launched the unisex collection Friday (June 20). Each shoe is a limited edition, retailing from $80 to $100 depending on the model and colorway. Speaking of colorways, the athletic Coach Jogger comes in three distinctive ones, while the Naut-1, a quintessential boat shoe, boasts three different designs entirely, from florals to monochrome hues. To celebrate this historic launch, we're going to be highlighting some of our favorite styles from the collection that you can shop now, while supplies last. $100 Buy Now at converse A low-top unisex sporty sneaker in bright green hues. The redesigned Jogger is an effortless, sporty silhouette with a playful color application that makes the shoe pop. This one's for the runners. Built for both performance and casual wear, this style features a mix of suede and nylon uppers, accompanied by a wrap-around heel and wedge outsole construction that imparts a retro vibe. You've also got two sets of laces for each colorway, offering the wearer endless styling possibilities. To finish off the model, GOLF le FLEUR* branding can be spotted subtly on the uppers as a nod to the rapper's brand. While our favorite colorway of the revamped Jogger is the Forest Shade/Green, the sneaker also comes in pastel Quiet Tide/Starlight Blue and neutral light brown Bistre/Dijon/Star White. 'There's something powerful about 1908 because these designs have truly stood the test of time,' Converse Archivist Sam Smallidge said in a press release. 'The Naut-1 and Jogger weren't just products — they were turning points in how people expressed themselves through sneakers. Their reintroduction is a reminder that Converse has been shaping sneaker culture for over a century through bold design and enduring self-expression. The Converse Archive captures that legacy in every detail.' $90 Buy Now at converse A cream-colored low-top unisex sneaker with floral detailing. The Naut-1 is a classic example of a boat shoe. Minimalist in composition and chock-full of nautical touches. The sneaker features sturdy canvas uppers and ivory laces that transition into non-slip rubber soles with a cushioned finish. GOLF le FLEUR* branding can also be seen throughout. Our favorite model of the three available is the Cannoli Cream/Stone Green colorway, which is speckled with embroidered florals in pink and green hues that give major Flower Boy vibes. The green trim offers contrast. The Naut-1 also comes in Dachshund/Afterglow, a monochrome brown, and Starlight Blue/Turkish Tile, a light blue monochrome. $100.00 Buy Now at converse A low-top unisex sporty sneaker in bright blue hues. The 'New Magic Wand' rapper has collaborated with the footwear brand on numerous occasions, tapping GOLF le FLEUR*, his own brand, as a sort of muse. Tyler began working with them in 2017. His collaborative sneakers are often retro-inspired and incorporate pastel colorways and floral motifs. In the past, the musician has reworked popular Converse silhouettes such as the Chuck Taylor and One Stars.
Yahoo
3 days ago
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Tyler, The Creator Hates Your New Podcast: ‘We Need Electricians'
No, Tyler, The Creator doesn't want to listen to your new podcast, bro. The rapper and producer sat down with The Cut to talk about his latest Converse collab and was asked if there are any podcasts that he listens to, given his public disdain for them. More from Billboard If Tyler, The Creator Were President, He Would 'Take Podcast Mics Away' Slick Rick Releases Cinematic 'VICTORY' Short Film Starring Nas, Idris Elba & Giggs Lil B & Kevin Durant Reignite Feud After NBA Star's Trade: 'You Was Once a Thing, I'm Still That' 'I think we give a lot of people who aren't smart and just want attention platforms to be loud and incorrect, and other stupid people follow them,' he said before asking whatever happened to being good at a trade. 'Where are the people with skills? We need electricians, we need more drummers, painters, teachers. Everybody with a mic is crazy. I just think that sh– is gross.' However, he did make sure to bring up a couple of pods that have been able to grab his attention. Deante Kyle (Grits & Eggs Podcast) is sick, and The Cutting Room Floor is sick. Those are two podcasts that are in the right direction.' If you recall, Tyler has been anti-podcast for at least a year. Back in December, in his Billboard cover interview, he said podcasts would be on the chopping block first if he ever took office. 'If I was president,' he said, 'The first thing I would do is take podcast mics away from n—as.' Elsewhere in the interview, he was also asked about gatekeeping, and of course, he had some interesting things to say. 'Love gatekeeping,' he told the outlet. 'Everything is not for everyone, and that's OK. People have to stop wanting to be invited into everything; it's OK to not be into something, bro. It's cool, it's chill.' And while he did admit that gatekeeping music 'is a little weird,' he's pro-gatekeeping places to eat and fashion. 'Gatekeeping music is a little weird, but when it comes to companies, restaurants, and clothing — like certain restaurants that some people really love can get f—ed up because someone makes a TikTok and now everything is sold out. This small thing they loved and enjoyed is no longer available for them to enjoy because everyone wants in on this new thing to feel like they're part of something. That's when I'm like, no, f— that, gatekeep your restaurant.' He added: 'When people are like, Where'd you get that from? We good. ID on Tyler's so and so? No, we good. Let me have my thing; you might not look that fire in it.' Best of Billboard Chart Rewind: In 1989, New Kids on the Block Were 'Hangin' Tough' at No. 1 Janet Jackson's Biggest Billboard Hot 100 Hits H.E.R. & Chris Brown 'Come Through' to No. 1 on Adult R&B Airplay Chart
Yahoo
3 days ago
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Doechii & Tyler, the Creator Preview Pharrell-Produced ‘Get Right' Collab During Louis Vuitton Paris Show
Doechii and Tyler, the Creator previewed their new Pharrell-produced collaboration 'Get Right' during the Louis Vuitton SS26 show in Paris on Tuesday (June 24). The 'Denial Is a River' MC worked with Pharrell, men's creative director at Louis Vuitton, on her H-to-T LV look at the 2025 Met Gala in May, which she said was 'heavily inspired' by Monica L. Miller's 2009 book Slaves to Fashion: Black Dandyism and the Styling of Black Diasporic Identity; the book inspired this year's Met Gala theme of 'Superfine: Tailoring Black Style.' Doechii also served as one of the members of the costume institute benefit host committee, while Pharrell served as one of the co-chairs alongside A$AP Rocky, Colman Domingo and Lewis Hamilton. More from Billboard Doechii Gets Louis Vuitton Stamp of Approval for Her Met Gala Debut Sabrina Carpenter Unveils Alternate 'Man's Best Friend' Cover - and This Time, It's 'Approved by God' Cardi B Shows Off Castle That Boyfriend Stefon Diggs Rented for Her in France: 'This Is Insane' 'Get Right' marks the second collaboration between Doechii and Tyler, who first worked together on 'Balloon' from his 2024 Billboard 200-topping album Chromakopia. 'Balloon' reached No. 56 on the Billboard Hot 100. The two performed it together at Camp Flog Gnaw last November during Tyler's headlining set. Tyler sang Doechii's praises during his interview with Nardwuar in March. 'Genius, love her. That girl's an alien. She's an alien,' he said. Clipse's 'So Be It Pt. II,' which Pharrell also produced, also played during the show, where Beyoncé, Jay-Z, J-Hope, Future and more sat front row. Pharrell gifted Bey, who just came off a three-sold-out-show run in Paris during her Cowboy Carter Tour, one of the bags fresh off the runway at the end of the show. Listen to a snippet of 'Get Right' below during the 14:20-minute mark below. Best of Billboard Chart Rewind: In 1989, New Kids on the Block Were 'Hangin' Tough' at No. 1 Janet Jackson's Biggest Billboard Hot 100 Hits H.E.R. & Chris Brown 'Come Through' to No. 1 on Adult R&B Airplay Chart
Fast Company
20-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Fast Company
Tyler, the Creator modernizes 2 shoes from the Converse archives
Today, Tyler, the Creator drops two new styles in his ongoing collaboration with Converse: a yacht shoe and a jogger, both of which are 1970s silhouettes pulled from the brand's archives. Tyler knows you're probably going to wear these sneakers with jeans and a T-shirt. But that's the wrong move, he insists. When I speak with him, he's wearing the jogger with a button up, a cropped rain jacket, and trousers. He'd prefer if you wore these kicks with a more polished look. 'Nah, bruh,' he says. 'Wear them with the ill slacks and the ill sweater.' As his stage name implies, Tyler is involved in too many different creative ventures to count. He's a rapper and producer, who also writes for an adult cartoon show called The Jellies, and creator of a music festival called Camp Flog Gnaw Carnival. But like his friend and mentor, Pharrell Williams, he's become increasingly well-known for his personal aesthetic and his contributions to the world of fashion. In 2011, he launched his streetwear label, Golf Wang, and in 2017, he began collaborating with Converse, a subsidiary of Nike, which generated $2.1 billion in 2024. (This was a 14% decline from 2023.) Over the years, his partnership with Converse has evolved into a separate, stand-alone brand called Le Fleur, a nod to his 2017 Grammy-nominated album, Flower Boy. The line is known for its pastel color palette; bold daisy icon, which encapsulates the Converse star; and the way in which it plays with traditional gender norms. Tyler isn't interested in a total redesign of the Converse silhouettes. For this collection, he worked with Lindsay Almeida, Converse's director of entertainment and sports marketing, to explore the archives. He was drawn to the Naut-1, a yacht shoe first released in 1971, and the Coach Jogger, an Olympic running shoe from 1976. He liked these models because they seemed fresh and relevant. 'I honestly hate the idea of nostalgia,' he says. 'I didn't want to reinvent the wheel because I think these shoes were perfect. I just wanted to do them in new colors.' And indeed, Tyler designs the shoes in interesting colors. The joggers, which cost $100, come in a teal and yellow, a dark and light green, and a brown and mustard. The yacht shoes, which cost $90, come in a cream with delicate embroidered flowers, a dark brown, and a teal. While some critics on social media argue that he hasn't done much to bring his own point of view to these designs, Tyler believes that small changes can be impactful. It echoes fashion designer Virgil Abloh, who argued that you only need to change an idea by 3% to create something new. And ultimately, Tyler believes that his strength lies in curating pieces and bringing them together in interesting ways. 'It's in the styling, the way they're worn, the color palettes,' he says. 'I really love wearing a sporty shoe with an outfit that makes folks glitch and say, I didn't know you could wear them like that.' Tyler still designs for Golf Wang, which is grounded in streetwear, with hoodies and jeans. But he says that Le Fleur's aesthetic is more reflective of his personal style these days. 'I didn't want to have to change Golf Wang because it would alienate folks,' he says. 'But Le Fleur is a mirror to where I'm at in life, with unique styles and colorways.' Converse has been struggling over the past decade; last year, its revenues declined 14% from the year before and in May, it laid off 2% of its workforce. A decade ago, it relaunched it's most famous shoe, the Chuck Taylor, with new technology, but consumers did not take to the new version and sales dropped. Part of the company's strategy to grow sales was to bring on new collaborators; Tyler was among them. Since the first release, in 2017, products from the collaboration have been popular and allow Converse to stay in the cultural conversation (not to mention connect with Tyler's nearly 17 million Instagram followers). Still, it's a hard moment for Converse and its parent company, Nike. In an earnings call last December, Nike CFO Matt Friend said that consumers were pulling back on spending. He argued that newness is what would cause consumers to shop. Converse is counting on this new collab to get sneakerheads to pay attention.
Yahoo
15-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Tyler, the Creator on Backlash to ‘Cherry Bomb': One of ‘the Greatest Things' That Happened to Him
Tyler, the Creator reflected on his career and offered creative advice to a room full of artists for Instagram's Ask It Anyway, a new series of conversations with prominent artists. Designer and The Cutting Room Floor podcaster Recho Omondi moderated the inaugural edition with Tyler, who was characteristically irreverent during the career-spanning talk; he began the conversation joking, '[Omondi] was like 'Do you have the jitters right now, are you nervous?' And I was like, 'Why the fuck would I be? Nobody here has a gun.'' More from Rolling Stone Rapper Silentó Sentenced to 30 Years in Prison for Cousin's Shooting Death De La Soul Dig Into Their Long Island Roots in 'The Sixth Borough' Doc Clip Lil Wayne's First 'Tha Carter VI' Track Featured in an NBA Finals Campaign Beyond the laughs, Tyler got serious about several pivotal moments in his career, including what he perceived as backlash to his 2015 Cherry Bomb album. He said the project was a consequence of trying a bit too hard. 'My goal was to prove to myself that I am the most diverse producer at the time,' he said. 'People were just shitting on it… it made me say, oh shit – these songs aren't good. Because of [the backlash], I was like, I need to reteach myself how to write songs. What is a chorus, hook, structure? That happening to me was one of the greatest things that could happen, because it made me dive into my skill and craft more.' Two years after Cherry Bomb, Tyler released Flower Boy, a soulful project heavily regarded as a demarcation point of his career. He told Omondi and the room of artists that Flower Boy 'was the first album I put on the cover to let people know: all songs written, produced and arranged by me.' He added, 'You have to tell people who you are. And I remember, the conversation started changing a bit… Now people are subconsciously listening to the production in a different way now, because I let them know that.' Elsewhere, Tyler talked about the importance of artists shifting their sound over time, pushing his career despite having minimal resources, and his music-making ethos: 'Create like a child and edit like a scientist.' Best of Rolling Stone Sly and the Family Stone: 20 Essential Songs The 50 Greatest Eminem Songs All 274 of Taylor Swift's Songs, Ranked
