Joy Division Trainers??

I know the gloves were a joke, but this?

http://www.cerysmaticfactory.info/joy\_division\_trainers.html

Shouldn't one be black & other white?

fuckinell.

bad Netball Trainees them. white suck big time.

who stuck the gold lettering on? one letter's a bit wonky.

And i thought the Adidas Saville ones were bad! This is one pair i wont be adding to my collection.

I bet they'd go for a bit on Ebay!

I think I preferred Half Man Half Biscuit's 'Joy Division Oven Gloves'...

Snorri xxx

Amazing.

They're Nike Blazers. Early basketball sneak, popular in the 70s. Now retro-ed heavily but not to the same lengths as Dunks, AF1s, etc. Can't imagine they'd have been that big in Manc.

I'd pay good dollars for them. The box design alone is killer.

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Oh, God. I can imagine Ian Curtis boxing out a mofo in the paint with those on.

Those are total cheese.

How about a limited edition New Order vacuum cleaner. I think I need one of those.

how about this little treasure?

joy division watch

Lovely

Worth having for the box alone

Stll can't beat This selection

No photos on the product though

James Thomas wrote: Stll can't beat This selection

No photos on the product though

Brings a new meaning to 'unknown pleasures'

As for the trainees, i quite like them but i liked those Peter Saville ones as well so what do i know

Brings a new meaning to 'unknown pleasures'

Woman to Man ... "I'm gonna Cum" Man to Woman ... " I'm CLOSER"

Christopher Owens wrote:

That a Good. Bad or indifferent.

quite like the idea of a Joy Division studded belt. But then are we True fans.

I like them, but i've also bought the saville ones ( purely as an investment)

Some guy on the message board at cerysmaticfactory.info has owned up to designing them: "Figure I'll chime in now. First off, thanks to Bob and the guys at Cerysmatic Factory for posting these photos. It's an honour; your site has been a great resource for me for a long while now and was largely responsible for the information culled for this project. I guess this all started in June of 2005, when I was approached by a local trainer shop in Montreal and asked to submit a custom shoe for a travelling shoe exhibition called Sneaker Pimps - founded and curated by one-man Aussie tour de force Peter Fahey. It was a couple of months past the 25th anniversary of Ian's death, I had just got done re-reading Touching From a Distance, and felt it would be interesting to try to do a shoe as a tribute to the band, the label, and in no small way to the design of Peter Saville. An interesting fact that is seldom aknowledged by many in the design community stateside is that Peter Saville, Ian Anderson / Designer's Republic and (to some degree) Tomato, were largely responsible for establishing a visual language which myself and others looked to for inspiration in what was otherwise a vacuum of creativity in the US and Canada.

We needed a look to match the sound, and as far as graphic design applied to the promotion of clubs, raves, events, and album and sleeve design, we imported our influences heavily from the UK, just as The Hacienda looked to Detroit and Chicago for the soul of the emerging electronic sound. I would expect that for most fellow admirers of Ian and Joy Division, the idea of distilling the essence of their artistic and musical acheivement into footwear is a laughable concept. (Moist, your points are taken with a grain of salt and your sandpaper-lined Durutti Column limited edition t-shirt is in the post ;-). The point of the project was to try to treat a given medium (in this case a trainer) with the same attention to detail as the individual releases on Factory were. From the use of the catalog number from Unknown Pleasures, to the laser engraving of Ian's lyrics from Insight, the artwork from the UP album cover, and the groove notations from the album into the leather on the shoe, it was about taking the time to try to tell and sell a story as much in the spirit and tradition of Factory as possible.

The greatest acheivement might be the box itself, fashioned out of solid birch by my friend Ben Billick and painted with roughly a dozen coats of white laquer. I spent 2 months working on the shoe(s), and perhaps the best part about it was listening to the albums non-stop, watching archival footage, reading online, and really taking the time to work on something with my hands again. Your observations and opinions are welcomed and encouraged. Many thanks again to Cerysmatic Factory for the forum. Much respect. Dylan Adair"

it took him 2 months to design the shoes? they're basically bog standard nikes with writing on them, really.

it took him 2 months to design the shoes? they're basically bog standard nikes with writing on them, really.

AgentWood wrote: it took him 2 months to design the shoes? they're basically bog standard nikes with writing on them, really.

Someone fetch this girl a copy of "Just for Kicks"!

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depthcharge wrote:

AgentWood wrote: it took him 2 months to design the shoes? they're basically bog standard nikes with writing on them, really.

Someone fetch this girl a copy of "Just for Kicks"!

:\pimp3:

white trainers. PAH! unless you're going for a run, that is. i stand by my original statement.

I like them, you have to get really close to see what's going on. THen you'd have people falling to your feet to see them...course that happens to me normally. Heh.

But, who didn't write such things on their tennis shoes already?

well id wear em,white or not. theyd be worth having if only for the novelty value alone,i know they are a one off but are they for sale?,ebay here we come?. or will they languish in the bottom of a shoe cupboard for all eternity. get em flogged i say

I'd take a picture of my Joy Division underwear and post it, but I'm wearing them.