Here is an insightful look at the Common Projects Spring/Summer 2012 Collection with the footwear brand continuing to evolve and grow with great distinction. In addition to the signature sneaker influenced designs is a pair of derby shoes and an impressive work boot, both aiding to the multi dimensional brand. All the pairs of footwear you see below are available now from Surrender.

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In amongst Browns Cabinet de Curiosités limited edition offerings is this pair of very exclusive and ultra premium Common Projects Black crocodile skin ‘Achilles’ low-top sneakers. Priced at £2,400 they aren’t for everyone. Made in Italy of Crocodile skin, this is luxury sportswear to its extreme.

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The MAAS & Stacks Fall/Winter 2011 Lookbook makes for a great compilation of the products that are available in store at the San Francisco based retailer. Consisting of labels like White Mountaineering, Patrik Ervell, Our Legacy, Wings + Horns, Common Projects, Norse Projects, Rachel Comey, Band of Outsiders and Master-Piece, MAAS & Stacks draw inspiration from spelunking, San Francisco weather and the cavernous spaces that constitute the city’s subway systems. The lookbook explores the use of garments in non-traditional ways and looks that are designed to preempt the unknown.

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Here is a look at the second installation of the The Usual Suspects from oki-ni. A well compiled series of looks that highlight each label available from the current season and with the likes of Damir Doma, nonnative, Common Projects, Band of Outsiders, Rick Owens to name a few this makes for some well worth viewing. Featuring model Ben Sullivan with prison style shots, scroll down and see the final product while head over to the oki-ni website to get your hands on the products.

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Très Bien Shop have provided the world with a fairly comprehensive look at the Common Projects Spring/Summer 2012 Collection. Having visited the News showroom to do their buying and catch up with founder Pete Poopat and partner Flavio Girolami, we see some great new pieces have been introduced. In addition to the staple items, we see a great new work boot and a mesh running sneaker, which certainly impresses.

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Common Projects have really come of age this season, and the introduction of another impressive silhouette further proves the brand is here to stay. Based on an old American service boot, the Common Projects Postal Boot is highlighted by an impressive soft Italian leather upper and leather lining. While the design is completed with a round toe, laced up and a lightweight wedge sole.

Available now from Tres Bien.

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Another coveting piece of footwear from Common Projects, as the label continues to put out new silhouettes for the new season ahead. This Officer’s Combat Boot, is dignified and refined and while the height of the boot may be too much for some people the construction and general mould makes for a great release.

Available now from SSENSE.

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Common Project introduce their take on the ever popular Duck Boot. The shoe that has picked up a massive following in recent years, see’s Common Projects bring their own clean take on the outdoor shoe. Made in Italy and featuring all the details and quality we’ve come to expect from Common Projects, available now at SSENSE.

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Tres Bien have compiled another intriguing read with this article on Peter Poopat, founder and designer of renowned shoe label Common Projects.

At first, “We just wanted to make shoes for ourselves and our girls.” Peter smiles. The first samples came in during men’s market week in New York. Peter and Flavio showed them to some friends and all of a sudden orders were coming in. “Steven Alan, Opening Ceremony, Nom de Guerre, and it took off from there.”

That original model was the Achilles, a strikingly minimalist shoe that remains in the Common Projects lineup today, with subtle refinements. The Achilles model is adaptable and basic, built in Italy of good, soft leather and a durable rubber sole. It’s “unbranded”–the only signifier of its make is a stamp on the heel marking the model and size. Yet the shoes are distinctive enough to float in the fashion world. Next fall you’ll see an upgraded Premium Achilles (which features leather faux-foxing all around, among other changes) but the classic won’t go away. Peter describes the Premium Achilles and laughs, “It’s like the new iPhone. It gets better reception; it will never drop a call.” And you don’t have to wear it any one particular way to get it to work.

Peter points out that the first shoe was called the “Achilles by Common Projects,” and the first bags “Atlas by Common Projects,” because Peter and Flavio always meant to work on other creative enterprises under the Common Projects name. Although they’re not letting details out yet, a number of endeavors are currently in the works–in the future you might see Common Projects “unbranded” stuff stocked in shops next to Saarinen chairs and the like.

Peter eventually left the magazine game to focus on design. I ask him whether he misses the deadline-driven world of publishing. “I miss laying out books. I miss telling a story. I try to work that into Common Projects. That’s what we wanted the early Common Projects shoots to do. Show the shoes when the guy who’s wearing them takes them off.”

Continue reading HERE.

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Concept store Hunting and Collecting have worked together with upcoming Belgian fashion photographer Hicham Riad to produce its Spring/Summer 2011 lookbook. As usual the lookbook reflects a more personal and global vision of the current season, and blends in the store’s decoration, brands, visual identity and layout from that season. The South American desert has been the theme for Spring Summer 2011 at Hunting and Collecting,  and more precisely it’s colors and textures, light, fabrics, minerals, and vegetation.

“We wanted to create a feeling of emptyness and blazing sun, invisible heat and silent lonelyness. The kind of atmosphere you have in places where the sun is ruling over every aspect of life. We have had the honor and luck to work with Hannelore Knuts, one of Belgium’s most succesfull models and Bent Van Looy, the leadsinger of the famous Belgian popband Das Pop. Hannelore has invited her good friend  Rudi Cremers, one of Belgium’s most talented make-up artists to join the project.” Aude and Niels

Get a closer look at labels like Assembly NY, bStore, Bleu De Paname, Christian Wijnants,  Common Projects, Complexgeometries, Dana Lee, FOB by Felipe Oliveira Baptista, Soulland amongst others with this well compiled piece from a store making big moves.

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Handmade in Italy, this sneaker is a collaboration between the New York-based designers Zero + Maria Cornejo and Common Projects. Featuring contrasting grey and navy leathers, an elastic bridge over the tongue and a rubber sole, this shoe is characterized by its great comfort and convenient wearability. Available now at Project No.8.

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Renowned for their approach to reworking classic sneakers, Common Projects have established themselves with a broader spectrum. These versions of a Standard Dress Shoe are completed with great distinction. The first features a premium suede upper, leather lining and finished of with a sewn on rubber sole with a “Labrador” pattern. The second features the same mould, while the soft Italian unlined leather is completed with a leather sole making these a defining piece.

Thanks to Tres Bien for the info.

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While Paris Fashion Week comes to a close, the NYC trade shows and showrooms are in full swing, lucky for us, the crew from Tres Bien are in New York on their buying trip and have captured some of the upcoming new models from Common Projects. A new high cut model and a new Premium version of the popular Achilles style.

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Here is a great new design from Common Projects with this Calf velvet lace ankle shoe, a design that showcases the brands continuing growth and development. Made in Italy with traditional ethos as the core it is the brands distinctive critique that is applied that makes the difference, especially in this case.

Thanks to colette for the info.

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Following up to their clothing collection and footwear, Common Projects and Robert Geller deliver to us their new collaborated overnight bag. The mid-sized black suede bag comes with cotton lining and two adjustable straps. The bag is available online now from FowardFoward.

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