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Swoosh-like logo, Owens leaned into the shark-tooth sole as a central brand identifier — the subsequent redesign replaced side branding with the inverted triangle, leaving the tooth pattern as the primary visual cue that fashion followers now use to spot Rick Owens from across the street.","thermoplastic_rubber_enabling_the_tooth_architecture":"The decision to cast the sole in thermoplastic rubber — the same compound used on the Geobasket — allows the intricate tooth contours to be molded with high fidelity while keeping the shoe relatively light for its visual mass, a balance that has been foundational to the brand’s footwear since 2006."},"entry_quotes":{"monster_truck_origin":[{"url":"https://www.bechtoldre.com/the-monster-truck-on-your-feet-a-deep-dive-into-the-rick-owens-geobasket/","quote":"I wanted monster trucks for my feet"}],"cease_and_desist_branding_pivot":[{"url":"https://www.bechtoldre.com/the-monster-truck-on-your-feet-a-deep-dive-into-the-rick-owens-geobasket/","quote":"I swooned with flattery when Nike sent me a cease and desist"}],"thermoplastic_rubber_enabling_the_tooth_architecture":[{"url":"https://www.bechtoldre.com/the-monster-truck-on-your-feet-a-deep-dive-into-the-rick-owens-geobasket/","quote":"The iconic sole is made of thermoplastic rubber, offering durability and a good grip while keeping the shoe relatively lightweight for its size."}]},"entry_sources":{"monster_truck_origin":["https://www.bechtoldre.com/the-monster-truck-on-your-feet-a-deep-dive-into-the-rick-owens-geobasket/"],"cease_and_desist_branding_pivot":["https://www.bechtoldre.com/the-monster-truck-on-your-feet-a-deep-dive-into-the-rick-owens-geobasket/"],"thermoplastic_rubber_enabling_the_tooth_architecture":["https://www.bechtoldre.com/the-monster-truck-on-your-feet-a-deep-dive-into-the-rick-owens-geobasket/"]}},"basketball_heritage_reinterpretation":{"title":"Basketball Heritage Reinterpreted Through Minimalism","entries":{"swoosh_cease_and_desist_scandal":"The original Geobasket featured a lateral overlay so close to Nike's Swoosh that it earned a cease-and-desist letter from Beaverton — an incident that immediately elevated Owens' basketball reinterpretation into a collector's grail, and the subsequent removal of the controversial panel informed the cleaner, logo-free stealth of later models including this low-top.","monster_trucks_for_my_feet_parody":"Rick Owens engineered his first sneaker — the Geobasket in 2006 — as a deliberately distorted, high-top amalgam of Nike, adidas, and Puma basketball silhouettes, and this low-top iteration carries forward that same outsize cupsole and rounded toe volume, scaled into a more wearable ankle height while retaining the original 'monster truck' proportion.","shark_tooth_outsole_as_brutalist_gesture":"The thermoplastic rubber shark-tooth tread pattern is a signature Rick Owens code that transforms the conventional basketball shoe’s functional grip into an aggressive, saw-toothed statement — its angled teeth are both a visual amplifier of the shoe’s underground stance and a hard-wearing compound that doesn’t sacrifice durability for edge.","corrupting_something_that_exists_design_ethos":"Owens describes his design method as 'corrupting something that exists' by simplifying and then exaggerating classic sneaker forms into what he calls 'a little grotesque' — the low-top's austere nubuck upper, stripped of superfluous detail save the rounded toe cap and metallic eyelet vents, is a case study in reduction followed by bold proportion, delivering a brutalist silhouette that reads as timeless rather than retro."},"entry_quotes":{"swoosh_cease_and_desist_scandal":[{"url":"https://www.complex.com/sneakers/a/daniel-so/rick-owens-nike-cease-desist","quote":"I swooned with flattery when Nike sent me a cease and desist"}],"monster_trucks_for_my_feet_parody":[{"url":"https://www.complex.com/sneakers/a/daniel-so/rick-owens-nike-cease-desist","quote":"If I was gonna wear them I wanted monster trucks on my feet. So I made my own parody combining Puma, Nike, and adidas motifs"}],"corrupting_something_that_exists_design_ethos":[{"url":"https://wwd.com/fashion-news/designer-luxury/feature/rick-owens-converse-collaboration-1234697076/","quote":"I always think of it as kind of corrupting something that exists."},{"url":"https://wwd.com/fashion-news/designer-luxury/feature/rick-owens-converse-collaboration-1234697076/","quote":"Exaggerated, bombastic and “a little grotesque” are some of the adjectives he threw out to describe his approach to sneaker design."}]},"entry_sources":{"swoosh_cease_and_desist_scandal":["https://www.complex.com/sneakers/a/daniel-so/rick-owens-nike-cease-desist","https://www.grailed.com/drycleanonly/rick-owens-nike-beef"],"monster_trucks_for_my_feet_parody":["https://www.complex.com/sneakers/a/daniel-so/rick-owens-nike-cease-desist"],"corrupting_something_that_exists_design_ethos":["https://wwd.com/fashion-news/designer-luxury/feature/rick-owens-converse-collaboration-1234697076/"]}}}},"handle":"nubuck-low-top-sneaker-men-8946-1642991","storefront_path":"/en/men-footwear/designers/nubuck-low-top-sneaker-men--8946-1642991","storefront_url":"https://ai.simons.ca/en/men-footwear/designers/nubuck-low-top-sneaker-men--8946-1642991"}}