Nike and New York-based textile company Maharam present the fruits of the labour for 2011. The famed Dunk High Premium and Zoom Tennis Classic styles have been released using beautiful fabrications such as undyed natural linen, woven horsehair and premium leather overlays from Maharam. Watch out for these through Nike selected stockists.

I was lucky to catch up with Lionel Vivier, Director of Sixpack France recently to discuss what it means to be described as a ‘post youth brand’, their new Spring/Summer collection and their artist collaborations. Megan: For those who don’t know what Sixpack is about, give us a little background on how the brand came about?…

British label Mackintosh has teamed up with Converse to create a capsule sneaker collection for Spring/Summer 2011. The capsule works with the Jack Purcell model presenting it in muted color-ways to achieve a simple and versatile capsule. Some hits of color can be found in the way of contrasting soles and inners. The release date is yet to be announced.