The concept of SoleHeaven.com was conceived on the streets of New York City. We discovered that the choice of sneakers available in the U.S. is absolutely mouth watering compared to that in the U.K. This was our motivation, and it was decided it was time for a change! Our aim is to give the British public footwear to be proud of!

We at SoleHeaven.com are just like you. We wanna dress well, we wanna wear cool trainers and we don’t want to look the same as everyone else. Simple things make us happy and that’s hangin out with friends, good music & decent sneakers!

This site was designed with you in mind. Primarily offering good, limited edition trainers, but also somewhere cool to shop and fun to visit.
Somewhere interesting and informative, somewhere for the UK sneaker community to come & join in the fun.

We will be providing you with video podcasts to promote & discuss new designs and vintage classics. There will be news & reviews, tips on buying deadstocks, history of brands, and sneaker design

and thats just for starters…

We will also be introducing you to several of the top customizers in the U.K. These very artistic & talented individuals will be showcasing their work and answering a few questions about what’s hot in the world of Custom Kicks!

Not only does SoleHeaven look slick, it also takes advantage of modern website technology. They produce creative & quirky video podcasts to provide information, and promote the history & design of sneakers.

Desirable Classics - This is all about user generated content! Each & every user can say what they like or dislike about certain sneakers. Everyone gets to leave comments & have their say! These are really great features of the site. These modern elements enable SoleHeaven to provide a unique service, and the ability to connect with their users & customers.

Sneakart is a new company, created by ex adidas and Puma designers, that has created a totally new, non permanent method of sneaker customization.

The concept is basically stickers for sneakers that are made from ‘sneakskin’, a specially developed, super thin, sticky, graphic film that’s waterproof, durable and flexible. The film is clear so can be applied to any light coloured, white or metallic shoe. We’re offering pre-cut stickers that are super easy to apply and pattern sheets where, with a little bit more skill and care, you can apply a graphic to a whole panel and create amazing custom effects in minutes.

The application is not permanent but can last several months and then peeled off like a normal sticker. Sneakskin flexes and moves with the shoe and looks like it’s part of the leather. We have a library of hundreds of our own designs and we’ll also print out uploaded designs. People can allow us to sell these if they choose and make a royalty from each sale their designs make. We will also showcase collaborations and will highlight featured artists - uploaded artwork that we really love and want to promote.

The main idea behind this concept is that it’s a quick, fun and inexpensive way to customize shoes that you will wear everyday, rather than shoes you might keep for display. You can refresh your design whenever you feel like it and you can easily experiment with different looks without destroying a shoe.

Check us out and let us know what you think.

Whats up everyone My name is Victor Vohidov AKA Desp One, was born and raised in Moscow. On a visit to the NYC when i was 12 i ran into an art form called Graffiti, i fell in love with it the moment i saw it, ever since then i have been writing.

At this point i am in my 11th year of non stop graff writing. In 2003 i was introduced into the fashion world by my sisters friends, who asked me to design a couple of tee shirts for their web design company. In 2005 i moved my graff work on to canvas and clothing due to legal issues. In 2006 i moved to Toronto, Canada to attend University of Toronto. At this point i was introduced to customizing sneakers and it blew my mind, being able to mix the love for graff with the love for kicks together.

I have been heavily involved in sneaker customizing for the past 2 years and have no plans in stopping. Our company Fresh&Fly Customz (F&F C) is dedicated to providing one of a kind hand painted sneakers, tee’s, sweatshirts, and fitteds.

Our philosophy is based on dedication to customers, we make products that fit your individual self. Our designers work extensively with the customer to create products that not only stand out but also clearly represent who you are. With every placed order for custom sneakers F&F C throws in a free hand painted tee just to match the kicks.

In 2006, a small independent company with its own vision and high objectives appeared in the world wide web. After long, hard work, addiction and termless love for special brand shoes, it came to be called sneaker-kingz.com to be one of the leading sources in brand named shoes, selling items to customers around the whole world.

Because of wide-ranging contacts to different suppliers and manufacturers, we can offer a comprehensive and current inventory at reasonable prices. Besides lifestyle products for men, women and children, sneaker-kingz.com offers all the latest sneakers from Nike, Puma, Adidas, Lacoste, Air Jordan , We also have access to limited editions, pre-releases, retro styles and older editions. We are adding new products every week, and pledge to have a great variety of the hottest shoes.

Through the love and commitment of sneaker-kingz.com owner Sebastian Klemm to basketball, lifestyle and performance products take center stage. We deliver our items world wide to customers around the whole globe. Every customer can be sure of ordering only 100% genuine goods. And if you are looking for some special editions not onlined in our shop then do not hesitate to contact us.

Hope to see you soon at sneaker-kingz.com!

Complex.com’s Sneakers section is a leader in the digital realm when it comes to forecasting and reporting on trends within the marketplace.

Whether it’s providing informative information on where, when and how to buy popular sneakers from brands like Nike, Reebok, adidas, Converse, K-Swiss and Supra, or providing an authoritative voice on the current shoe-game, Complex offers unique insight about an always-changing market. Expect to find feature-length pieces on special projects, breaking news stories about releases, and constant updates of the hottest new sneakers on a daily basis.

“Diamond Dawgz” started as Ms. Adrian Breeding, mother of BadBoy Recording artists “B5″, took interest in making and designing appearance and performance clothing for her high-energy celebrity sons! As B5’s popularity has rose over the years, so did the fans awareness of B5’s unique style and fresh flavor!

(Ms. Adrian) “I began making outfits and customizing them when the boys started out over 10 years ago! When B5 first started as the “TNT Boys”, money was low so I had to get creative with the resources I had! I would take old jeans, shirts, jackets and hats and give them a custom look with paints, glitter, rhinestones and more! Not able to afford new sneakers at the time, I would take and clean the sneakers and then paint them with white spray paint to give them a new look, and would then customize them with paints and glitters! That’s how it all started!”

Now, After being in front of millions of people on major tours such as the “Scream Tour”, “Teen People Tour”, Disney’s “Jingle Jam Tour” and TV shows such as “MTV”, “BET”, “Disney Channel” and others; fans, music industry professionals and athletes started requesting the crazy, unique blinged out sneakers that Ms. Adrian once did out of necessity! 2 years ago, Ms. Adrian and B5’s longtime manager Jim McMahan decided to create a company with Entertainers and the youth in mind and “Diamond Dawgz” was born!

“Diamond” because of the bling and sparkle and “Dawgz” because thats what her boys call each others feet! Today you can purchase “Diamond Dawgz” Exclusively at http://www.diamonddawgz.com. New styles and flavor of Hi-top canvas sneakers & caps with German Glass Glitter, colored sands, Swavorski Crystals, paints and more for 2008! Nothin Lik’em!

KicksOmeter. With over 4 years experience in testing bball shoes kicksOmeter is the largest sneaker review magazine worldwide. The detailed reports and photos are the players first choice to get information upfront buying new sneakers. You can download the mag for free at www.kicksometer.com as .pdf file.

Every review comes with large photos, a ranking system and a detailed account of what makes the shoe a must-have (or not). Therefore the kicksOmeter crew wears every shoe at least 6 times during on-court action. After each session the crew studies the kicks and rate them in the 4 main categories: traction, support, cushioning, comfort & fit. After all the testing a detailed report is written based on the our observations.

Together with a detailed measurement system and high professional photography the final report is at least 3 pages long. If it takes too long to read, just check the quick overview table with the diagram, a summary and a best for position indication.

Since 2004 visitors at kicksOmeter.com can also vote for the “shoe of the year”. This global campaign follows the rules of the NBA playoffs. All sneaker brands are spitted into different conferences. The best 8 shoes of each conference battle round by round for the Finals. Here the best 2 sneakers of the last season facing head to head with only one winner.

But the magazine and the kicksOmeter sneaker playoffs (all voted by players around the world) are not the only hot features. In summer the largest interactive sneaker database and the sneaker encyclopedia (”kicksOpedia”) are coming online.

It’s all about your shoes!

I’m an 18 year old and an up and coming female sneaker designer. I didn’t really start getting into sneakers when I was in my sophomore year in high school, I always loved the different designs and brands, never could afford all the expensive brand names like everyone else.

I wanted to design my own and started that in December of 2006, and have already progressed this far. The custom sneaker game is mainly male dominated, just like in Hip-Hop, and there’s not too many females around my age doing what I do. It’s really nice having something that no one else has, and when people come up to you in the mall and are like, “where’d you get those?”

It’s a blessing being able to create a work of art on a pair of sneakers. Gaining clientele, friends, etc. People will respect you for what you do, or they can simply envy you. When it comes to art, there’s no limit, just like Picasso, Van Gogh and Andy Warhol, being creative and just thinking outside the box. Most sneakers that you want, you can’t find in stores, thats why I put my own thoughts onto shoes. I’m also into creating sneaker canvas’ as well. When you view my site, there’s different types of designs you’ll see, it’s not all the same designs. I want something basic and complex, just to satisfy the customers needs.

uniQue de$igns is my company name, being uniQue and standing out from the crowd is what my main thing is to do. I don’t stick to one type of
custom or design, everything is different, and also try and design different brands of sneakers as well. “Art is one of the few things left worth doing…”

Fresh Out The Box is the webshop project of our small, but selected streetstore called “The Flame”. We opened the doors in 99 for the first time, with the motivation to provide nice and selected streetwear, which you wont find, in every other store.

Nine years later, in 2008, we decided to provide our goods to more people and our webshop “Fresh Out The Box” was born. You will find all the latest sneakers from Nike, New Balance, Puma, Adidas and last but not least JB Classics on our page and instore aswell. We always have special offers for our customers and we provide a free pair of laces with every order. Make sure you check our website and see the design, from sneakerfriends for sneakerfriends.

If you have the chance, make sure to visit our store in Heidelberg, Germany. Instore we sell brands like Stussy, Carhartt, Soul Rebel, Upper Playground, Illmatic and many more…

La Dolce Vita was created in 2.001 by and for skaters. Since we started the shop, we share two passions, skateboarding and collecting sneakers. In 2.004 we started selling all the sneaker editions related to the skateboarding
world, and actually we start to get all the limited edition kicks.

Here I Include a link from our last presentation for the “crew Pack” B-Boy Collection from Nike SB. We will do this kind of events every 4 months. We are actually planing a big event in a museum with Nike SB this year in 2.008. This is the “DUNK YEAR” and Dunks are the models we TRUST, we are planing to do something new and fresh, check our site for updates.

Kay’s Shoes (www.KaysShoes.com) is a shoe store located outside Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Founded in 2006, by a sneakerhead/college student, Kay’s Shoes was opened to satisfy the demand for sneakers in a small college town. Since then, Kay’s Shoes has become one of the most trusted and hottest shoe stores in the Greater Pittsburgh Area. In 2007, we were fortunate enough to experience a tremendous amount of growth due to the launching of our online sneaker site.

Every purchase of $99 or more receives a free matching T-shirt, a pair of socks, and an Air Jordan upcoming release calendar. Many customers take advantage of pre-ordering a sneaker prior to its release date to assure their size(s). Our service is backed by our unconditional satisfaction guarantee.

Our 100% Satisfaction Guarantee: If you are not 100% satisfied with your Kay’s Shoes purchase, no matter the reason or when you made the purchase, return it in unworn condition for a full refund of the purchase price.

Powered by a focus on providing the best customer service, great pricing, and a staff committed to becoming an household name in the shoe and apparel industry, we hope to one day have the opportunity to service you. If you are ever in the area of one of our stores, please check us out and tell us you read about us on sneaker-websites.com. Thank you for your time.

Me And My Sneakers © is officially the first non store-affiliated sneaker blog of Sweden, in Swedish! The international sneaker scene is a cultural phenomenon that is at the least – blowing up worldwide, and Sweden is not the one to slack around. With two major stores, Sneakersnstuff and Caliroots, making way with international status, it is just a matter of time before recognitions knocks at our door.

So, in light of where we are headed, we agreed that time was due for Sweden to enlighten and delight our committed and dearly devoted sneakerheads with something of their own. We are well aware of the impact that the urban scene has had on the fashion industry and so the pie looks delicious from up here. In the good words of Dead Prez: our time is NOW!

Me And My Sneakers © will provide and deliver current news and events from all the seven seas, as well as reports on vintage models, reviews, interviews, general information and will set out to answer all types of inquires concerning sneakers. We are sneaker-hungry, creative and we are here on demand of the people, we are going to stir up the pot and serve it Swedish style!

In the most humble way imaginable:

“Heavy armed, insane and trigger-happy, we march into this sneaker jungle, determined to let everybody know, we are not to f**k with!”

HostileKicks.com serves as one of the webs most progressive and competitively priced Internet Sneaker Boutiques. We pride ourselves on excellent customer service and competitive pricing as well as assuring our customers all the hardest to find styles from Nike’s Tier Zero program to New Balance’s very limited Super Team 33.

With products ranging from the desirable to the near impossible to find HostileKicks.com strives to continually bring the hottest and freshest kicks to the web. With integrated MySpace and Ebay we continue to explore new venues to offer even better prices on all our premium kicks.

Sole Brother Custom Sneakers specializes in providing high quality custom footwear and apparel to those who appreciate the uncommon.

Each item they customize is an exclusive one of a kind work of art, meticulously crafted by hand and brought to life by an experienced artist and graphic designer. Extra effort is used to replicate a “factory produced” look, while still maintaining a distinctive artistic allure everyone will notice.

The artist behind it all has been dedicated to painting, drawing, and graphic design since his childhood, with works featured in numerous exhibits. His base of operations is his hometown of Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, where he obtained his university Fine Arts background and cultivated his love for kicks.

I’m 21 an up and coming sneaker customizer that continues to push themself every day. I started FlyKickz late December 2006 but before I started doing sneakers, I did my research. When I design I tell myself art has no boundaries, every style should range from simple to complex so that everyone can have a chance to express who they are, through art.

I want people to look at the work that I’ve created over the last couple of months and understand that what they see today may be different from what they see tomorrow because “I dream my painting and paint my dream” - VincentVan Gogh. I don’t want to be stuck in one particular style or design instead I want to continue to think of new ideas and be inspired by everything and everyone that surrounds me.

Feel Free to check out my sample work at www.myspace.com/flykickz_designs input and comments are always appreciated.