At the heart of the project two years in the making are two shoes: There's a nighttime “Gulfstar” with an off-black mix of synthetic stingray leather and soft suede upper. It has cross-stitched panels, a mudguard, tortoiseshell eyelets, “gold doubloon” heel trim, serape inner lining, and a torn Jolly Roger tag covering a debossed Fresh Rags x Sperry lockup. It’s finished with an aggressive Vibram sawtooth sole.
Sperry Top-Sider x Fresh Rags ‘Pirates In Paradise’ launch
When: Sat., Nov. 9, 11 a.m.-4 p.m. 2024
Michael Bickel and Jaise Rizzo’s latest project—a collaboration with Sperry Top-Sider that updates the iconic American brand’s A/O 2 Eye Boat shoe—started becoming real during a Fashion Week party in Paris, but it puts Florida front and center in the storytelling and design of a collection that drops this weekend.