Out of the Box showcases sneakers, from themid-nineteenth century to sports performancebreakthroughs, to present-day cultural icons.Drawn from the collection of the Bata Shoe Museumand the Adidas, Nike, Reebok, Puma, and Conversearchives, as well as from private collectors such aship-hop legend Darryl McDaniels, sneaker guruBobbito Garcia, and Dee Wells of Obsessive SneakerDisorder this selection is richly contextualized withinterviews and essays by design innovators, sneakercollectors, and cultural historians, creating a backdropof the technical innovation, fashion trends, socialhistory, and marketing campaigns that shaped the formover the past two centuries.Out of the Box includes sneakers ranging from an 1860spiked running shoe, a pair of 1936 track shoes, AirJordans 1 23, the original Air Force 1, and early AdidasSuperstars to contemporary sneakers by prominentfigures including Damien Hirst, Jeremy Scott, JeffStaple, and Kanye West. The book also highlightssneakers and prototype drawings that span the career ofNike sneaker design legend Tinker Hatfield, makingthis the definitive illustrated history of sneaker culture