Come As He Was: Cobain’s Shoes for Converse
The good news? The new line of Kurt Cobain-inspired Converse sneakers is the first time the late singer’s estate has ever collaborated with a brand. Considering Cobain’s choice of footwear, it’s an appropriate one. The bad news? It’s not in the best of taste. The Nirvana front man was — very famously, in case you’ve forgotten — discovered dead while wearing a pair of Converse sneakers. At the time, the image of Cobain’s splayed feet came to represent the end not only of the singer, but also an era in American music and culture. Now that we fetishize these momentos and totems of rock ‘n’ roll become increasingly untethered from their original contexts (have you been to a Hard Rock Cafe lately?), not to mention musicians who use their celebrity as an opportunity to diversify into different fields to both hedge against their inevitable irrelevance and maximize their media exposure (where are the Kanye West sneakers, we’d like to know), such partnerships are absolutely run-of-the-mill. Thing is, you’d have to be a pretty depressing kid to own a pair of these suckers, we think. And if you’re an adult, clearly there’s a problem. For reference, see Jason Bateman’s character in Juno.
[Via Nirvana Club]
May 10th, 2008 at 9:38 am
where can i get a pair
May 15th, 2008 at 12:05 am
Seriously. Oh, and you don’t need to be depressed to wear his shoes, even though i’ve been lately. So, anyways whoever is putting their crappy opinion about wearing his shoes on here, you should read his journals just to see how $^+#!$ ed you sound. Jesus!
June 1st, 2008 at 12:09 am
is it available outside the US of A also?
June 1st, 2008 at 7:29 pm
KURT COBAIN WAS AND STILL IS A MUSIC LEADER TO ME AND TO HAVE A PAIR OF KURT COBAIN BASED SHOES WOULD BE AWSOME HE PROBLEBLY WOULDNT WEAR THEM IF HE WAS STILL ALIVE CAUSE TO ME WANTED TO MAKE MUSIC FOR A CAREER AND THEN LIVE A NORMAL LIFE BUT EVERYONE GETS DEPRESSED SOME TIMES BUT DONT MEAN YOU HAVE TO BE A DEPRESSED PERSON TO WEAR THEM EVERY ONE HAS PROBLEMS
June 30th, 2008 at 6:58 pm
I am a big fan of nirvana but to me wearing a pear of shoes based on the shoes kurt wore when he killed himself is kinda scary.Suicide is a very dark thing and i would rather remember such a great artist by there music not by there death.
July 19th, 2008 at 8:47 pm
quero comprar este tênis!!!
July 25th, 2008 at 6:12 pm
Kurt was god to many people, but he was not famous for his shoes. pas enghadr kos-sher nagin.
November 20th, 2008 at 5:52 pm
i would where there them