There are some ideas that are only good on paper. There are some that should never get that far. And then there are those that are an affront to the synapses that carry them. Take the latest sneaker (it's American for "trainer") to be causing a buzz on the online forums: the Nike Dunk SB.
It's not so much the fact that it features red velvet on black leather that's the issue here - but more the fact it's been dubbed the Sunday Bloody Sunday shoe, as it was apparently designed in honour of the U2 song. You know the one - about the massacre in 1972 when British troops shot 13 people dead in Derry.
This is hardly the place to reopen the debate about Bloody Sunday, but suffice to say there are probably better ways to mark the event than releasing a limited edition trainer (what next, a Sharpeville plimsoll?)
Of course, you can't believe everything you read on the internet. And it could well be that the hype on sneaker blogs such as The Shoe Game and Sneakers BR has misrepresented Nike (it looks to me that the red velvet is a reference to Bono's Mephisto character rather than an attempt to "represent the blood", as 'G-Roc' suggests on theshoegame.com. Of course, as the sites have got hold of early production photos of an as-yet unreleased shoe, Nike can't officially comment yet ...
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