The blue used on the latest New Balance CM1600T is simply beautiful, but that’s not the only reason why this product was all sold out in Asia. Yup, all sold out, and this wasn’t even a “limited edition”…. Is nice to see New Balance finally getting some boost though, the brand has put out numerous great shoes as of late. The recent 997, 998, the 1300s, all very nice and well recieved by the consumers, but this 1600 took it to another level. Kudos!

So, you ready for the CAVS AJ4? I heard mixed feelings on the color combo, but really, to each his own. Call it “Air Lin 4″ for all I care, it is actually a nice looking shoe.

These kids’ rides, although old, are still everywhere in Shanghai. Weathered and rusted, I quite like the texture of them. This character is Captain Black-Cat, a Chinese cartoon series from the late ’70s. I had the pleasure of meeting its original creator a few years back when we were both on a judge panel for a design tournament. A very sincere gentleman, I’ve love to talk to him again if I’ve the chance.

Sunset-shot at the Shanghai Bund. Took this today actually, fresh~

It has been a good busy month with VEIL products rolled out on schedule, and moving into the hands of consumers at a reasonable pace. I now have time to turn my attention back to working closely with some media partners, hoping to launch a series of online features that will spotlight some personalities I respect in the Mainland China circuit.

New Balance’s care package arrived with this pair of USA-made 1300 inside. Really love the low-key colors, and I put them the very next day. I know there’s a grey colorway out there right now, you might want to check that one out as well.

Continued digging into my own kickz storage, I found these Fragment Design’d Nike Tennis Classics. With the Tennis Classics model seeing so much actions in the past 24 months, I forgot I have these put away. I decided to start wearing the blue colorway, and sent off the red pair to a fellow sneakerhead. All good.

You’ll see me keep digging up old releases if you follow my Instagram (id: eddiaft).

Busy with the VEIL S/S collection, besides the joy of putting the collection together, the only other “fun” I had was getting new sneakers. Let’s post up what I got recently.

Nike iD delivered this “Yellow Veil” Dunk Hi. Dunk Hi is my all-time favorite Nike model. Really happy to see this pair got done up. The yellow on this really pops.

New Balance worked with Boston’s Concepts again, this time on the 999 model. Really tight design in terms of materials used and colors chosen. Thanks to New Balance China for this kind gift.

Bought this pair last week, Nike Air Footscape Woven Chukka 3HC. Didn’t go for the gray colorway, I opted the color that I can match most of my clothes… boring, huh? Is a really comfortable shoe.

Talking about comfort though, I went nutz on the recent Nike Presto capsule.

I’m set for the Summer~ See, I’m not that boring afterall, I chose purple too!!

Next week, I’ll post up some of the items from our VEIL S/S Collection, pls stick around.

Got gifted by the New Balance crew today, they sent over this pair of hottie; Mita x New Balance MT580. Quite like the wood grain effect on these. I lost count of how many MT580 the two companies made already, but this is different one that I can wear alot. Thanks Michael and the NB crew.

Went silent on you again for a while, but I was working hard all the way through….

In between official YOKA Series production, I did a small capsule for SIZE Magazine in China, an edition of 30pcs all sprayed by yours truly. I was never a real artist myself, but I think these came out okay.

New Balance sent over something that they knew I was waiting for ever since the tradeshow! The MA-1 inspired MT580, due out this A/W. Love the color combo and the Gore-Tex outter doesn’t hurt neither. Much much thanks to da boyz. I love it!

Shanghai. After all these years, how do you think it looks like? Still a farm land of sort? Nah.

Check out how Shanghai looks like at night.

Rosa, a great help from our studio. She gave me the bad news about her having to leave the company, BUT, the great side to that was that she’ll be going to Italy to continue on with her education. That, I absolutely support!

I went to Cheng Du City last month, this is one of the shots that I took, one that I like more. These were made with cow-skins, these were used as light-puppets from decades ago. Pretty nice.

You’d want to see more designer figures in this blog, huh? Sorry. You wait, my friends. Just wait.

New Balance just delivered the newest Sonic Welded 574 series. They look pretty nice. Not crazy colors, very wearable, you know what I mean. These went onto the shelves at SoleGoodz right away.

New Balance’s M1300 JP special model officially drops at SoleGoodz in Shanghai tomorrow. We are stroked to get the rights to offer this gem to sneakerheadz here in the Mainland. Ming was in time to get the new renovation done, and the new fittings sets off this pair of M1300 perfectly.

Frankly, I’m glad this finally goes on sale tomorrow, ‘cos I’ve been getting calls daily from friends wanting to cop this. Okay boyz, come grab them tomorrow and stop calling me!!! haha

New Balance just shipped these 2 Hanon x NB 576 bad boyz in for exclusive sale at SoleGoodz for the Mainland market. Yeah, we are once again a few months late on these, well, as always. But I say better late than never. Out of the two colorways, I particularly like the yellow+gray variant. But still, I like the blue on the other one, is a nice blue. haha Made in UK joints, pricey but worth the bucks.

These will go up on the racks in a week or so.
I’d like to shout out to the Hannon crew for these nice designs!

This coming weekend will be a busy one for Shanghai.
On Friday, adFunture will drop its eyewear collabo with Chairman at ICONIC-1 Store. Edison, KP and the rest of the Clot Crew is set to open their JUICE Store on Saturday, while SOLEGOODZ will drop the FREEDOM TRAIL Pack by CONCEPTS & New Balance. So like I said; busy busy.

Hand crafted in Japan, these frames turned out just as expected; High quality joints. I’ve been wearing one for a while now, must say I’m enjoying wearing our own branded frames.

These actually just arrived our store tonite. Love the red laces setting the whole thing off. NB 1500, slowly became a collaborative platform for New Balance as of late.

New Balance 875. I don’t remember seeing this model before, must be a new model or new breed. I like it. The mid-cut with its brown colors have it looking like an outdoor footwear. The Freedom Trail Pack, for China, will be sold exclusively at SoleGoodz Sneaker Boutique. Thanks to the good folks at NB!

So, this weekend, will you be in Shanghai??
See ya in a bit!

It has been a busy month with New Balance at SoleGoodz this month.
Within 30 days, we have/had 3 special drops.
It all started with Jeff Staple’s White Pigeon 575 at the end of August.

Last weekend was Solebox’s M1500 “The Finals“.
Those in Mainland were exclusively sold at SoleGoodz.
Of course, those went quite well.

Immediate weekend after the Solebox’s, we will have The 99x Feral Creation Pac.
Again, Mainland is dropping these products slightly later than other countries.
Is that a good thing or a bad thing? That depends, I guess.

I love the Lion variant, more of my colors.
Definitely keeping a pair for myself.

With these 3 releases, New Balance has been highly visible in the Mainland media, which (sorry to say) hasn’t happened for a long time. By bringing in more hot items, NB will definitely get stronger exposures. In a marketplace that is dominated by N & A, a sudden burst like this month’s will help a long way.

Is quite interesting to watch shoppers react when they come into SoleGoodz where we only sell kicks from Puma and New Balance.

“PUMA/NB has shoes like these?? Cool !”
Well, they always did….