Sneakers have always been something to fetishize . The right pair of kicks go a prospicient fashion in any fashionable closet , but dedicate the country of New technology and American ethnic surplus , shoes today can be hifalutin as a self - drive vehicle .
Take for instance , The First Class Shoes , which were designed by Virgin America to simulate the plushy confines of a first class flight in the chassis of a shoe . No , that is not a joke . Check out these gilded disco - boot for yourself :
Virgin teamed up with the advertising government agency Eleven Inc. and Milan - establish design firm SearchnDesign to conceive the shoe . What they assembled is a handcrafted sweetheart featuring Italian leather , and a stainless sword seat buckle taken directly from the first class cabin of a Virgin America aircraft .
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To simulate the silkiness of take flight in style , the brake shoe also come with moodlighting , Wi - Fi capabilities and a picture display , so you’re able to watch the family - friendly programming you ’re used to look at from 30,000 feet in the sky .
There ’s only one pair of these shoes in the world right now , so do n’t weigh on strapping up in these prominent , ungainly masterpieces anytime soon . The shoe are beingauctioned on Ebayin conjunction withSoles4Souls , a charity that render clothing and shoes in impoverished part of the world .
So even if you like the approximation of these monstrous shoes becoming mainstream someday , donate to the cause . you could also corrupt a pair ofBack To The Futureshoes– and literally step into the futurity of footgear .
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