OCCUPATION: Student

HOME BASE: Brooklyn

HAT: New Era

SHIRT: LRG

SHORTS: Gap

SNEAKERS: Air Yeezy

What is your favorite fall trend? Dark skinnies and a smooth black jacket.

Must have item for fall? Zara jacket.

What sneaker style are you rocking this season? Air Yeezy.

Halloween costume this year? Static Shock.

Who inspires your style? Koreans at my school.

What is your favorite city? New York.

Last clothing item you purchased? Black jacket from Forever 21.

What do you collect? Wristbands.

Dream job? Investment Banker.

Dream date? Amber Rose.

Vote on whether this week’s subject is “Stylin” or “Wildin” below…

Favorite tech gadget? G-Shock.

Last book read? The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien.

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AGE: 23

OCCUPATION: Photographer

HOME BASE: Brooklyn

SHIRT: Ray-Ban

SHIRT: Marc Jacobs

PANTS: Dior Homme

SNEAKERS: Air Yeezy’s

WATCH: Breitling

What are you saving up for the summer? A new house.

What summer trend needs to die? I hate that retro early ’90s high top stone wash jeans wearing type.

What is your dream vacation? Brazil.

What sneaker style are you rocking this season? Ralph Lauren suede driving mocs.

What’s your summer drink? Jack and Coke.

What is your favorite city? L.A.

Vote on whether this week’s subject is “Stylin” or “Wildin” below…

What inspires your style? thesartorialist.blogspot.com

Last clothing item you purchased? Marc Jacobs black duffle.

Favorite brand? Dior.

Favorite tech gadget? Macbook Pro

Most money spent on clothing? $600 on a Dior Homme black wax jeans.

Dream job? Work for N.A.S.A

Dream date? Keri Hilson.

Last book read? Rich Dad, Poor Dad by Robert Kiyosaki
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Oh, and wait till the end of the video to get Capo’s take on the Air Yeezy. Watch the video below. Jones!

One important update for NY heads, the sneakers will be hitting Nike’s 21 Mercer street location, but not the 34th street Footlocker and Footaction stores. The space-shoes will also be at all three of the House of Hoops locations. Good luck to everyone trying to score a pair, and if you haven’t already check out our behind the scenes feature of the making of the Air Yeezy, right HERE.
$215, www.nikesportswear.com, http://www.kanyeuniversecity.com/blog/

UPDATE: Stores to get the Yeezy’s.
UNDFTD – LA
DQM- NY
HOH Harlem – NY
Dr Jays – NY
Leaders1354 – chi

Oh haiii LeBron. I can has Louwie colaways on mi sneakas? [Sneaker Files]

Ubiq’s Yeezy sign is awesome. [Mash Kulture]

Oooh. A Lexus made out of crystallized wind. [Gizmodo]

Huff gets down with Limited Edition TV’s Daichi. It’s funny. [Youtube]

New Stussy book with Ghost. [High Snobiety]

If you have $600 to spend on a BBC suede backpack, you’re definitely beating the shit out of the recession. [HighSnobiety]

Jim Jones would rather Ron Browz himself than wear the Air Yeezys. [Ctothejl]

Nike tapped illustrator James Jarvis to create a short film of a yellow character running through a bunch of different settings. Awww. [Hypebeast]

An Obama USB key? Enough is enough people. [Ubergizmo]

Over your Playstation 2? They’re making chairs out of them now! Or, they can anyway. [PSFK]

The tan Yeezys hit June 6th. You heard it here fir…er, second or something. [Footlocker Blog]

Oh hai models! What RU doing todai? ORLLY? [Modelfeed]

Oakley x Paul Smith: our guess would have been for the brand designers to have picked something striped. Maybe this is a false alarm (?). [Vagant]

Are you still feeling metallic kicks? We’re over it, but if you need, UNDFTD and New Balance drop the Full Metal Jacket pack on April 29th. [Kicks on Fire]

Levi’s Japan can get you these shit-stained jeans for $323. Ah jeez. [Hypebeast]

The Nike 2009 – what’s up with the Air Max franchise? After all that “Air” business, these come in under the radar. They’re dope, but no one knows? Internal politics maybe. [Kix-Files]

Leopard print Louboutin sneakers. Match your girl. [Kanye's Blog]

ACG Aquasocks! Yay! [High Snobiety]

Check out Jeremy Fish’s most recent exhibition in Mexico. [Mash Kulture]

You got an hour to kill? Listen to Lupe Fiasco politick with Dr. Cornel West. [Slam x Hype]

If you missed out on MTV’s coverage of the Air Yeezy release. Click HERE.

Filmmaker Davy Greenberg goes beyond the hype, with this piece on the Air Yeezy. [Nice Kicks]

YN talks to DJ Semtex about the print industry, and the digital game. [Rap Radar]

Check out all the cool shit you missed on the internet today right HERE.

Hotties in the wild? Ha how could we not?

Does having a college degree compare to having a good woman? Read this and decide.

How to get a free Nintendo DSi: Make a gigantic one out of Legos and get it on display at the Nintendo flagship. These things are limited, man! [Gizmodo]

The new Ransom line is for sale. Check it. [Ransom]

Louis Vuitton x Stephen Sprouse: helping rappers look like assholes one step at a time. [Sneaker Files]

The new Rockwell Ts are amazing. Meat hats! [High Snobiety]

Rouge Status x ALIFE footwear. Please tell us you’re fucking around. [CtotheJL]

Regardless, the shoe drops tomorrow, so below we’ve assembled some unseen outtakes from our exclusive interview with both Kanye West (superhero) and Mark Smith (Creative Director of Special Projects in the Innovation Kitchen for Nike). Hit the jump to hear about the design process, selection of aesthetics for the shoe, and why Kanye is the everyman when it comes to repping for the ‘hood in the Nike design offices…

As told to Bradley Carbone

Who is Mark Smith:

Mark Smith: “I’ve been working with Tinker and MJ for about 15 years now, kind of the guy behind the guy behind the guy kind of thing. I’ve had a lot of great success on products you may or may not have known were mine. From the ones that people probably recognize, I’d say the Air Moire and the Nike + project, as well as working with Tinker on some of the big Jordans, including the 20 and the 23.”

Mark Smith on the sit downs:

Mark Smith: “In the early meetings we didn’t have an entourage full of people on either side. It was really literally just Kanye and I sitting down comparing notes, bringing each other up to speed on our involvement with footwear and it started naturally from there. We never sent samples out, we didn’t want to do that.

We didn’t want images on any blogs, so we treated Kanye’s project the way we would any of our primary, key athletes. We would meet Kanye on the road to keep the project under wraps. It was a lot of one-on-ones with he and I—usually 2 hours minimum, sometimes up to 4 hours. I think we had about 6 of those.”

The Kanye design brief:

Kanye West: “One of the big things I want to stress to people about the shoe itself is conceptually it was made for a person walking on a space planet. I wanted to take the concept of future pop colors and all this like ’80s influence and make it wearable.”

The Mark Smith design brief:

Mark Smith: “Whenever we started looking at things, instead of adding a whole bunch of today’s stuff onto it and super technology or anything like that, it was more about keeping things simple. We agreed that any time we wanted to add something to the product we had to take something away so that it wasn’t just adding adding adding and if we could get one item to do 2 jobs then we did.”

Kanye on performance vs. aesthetic:

Kanye West: “When I step into anything, the first thing I’m thinking about is aesthetic. I’m aesthetic first on anything. Where will you be when you’re listening to this? Where will your surroundings be? Everything [for me] is design. It’s not a separate process, there’s no separation. I’m expressive when I pick up a mic, when I pick up a keyboard, when I pick up a pencil, if I’m on the computer. Everything is an expression of exactly who I am.“

Mark on performance vs. aesthetic:

Mark Smith: “Whenever I’ve designed shoes, it’s always been performance and function first. The actual stage performance was Kanye’s “on court” for me, so my goal was to make these super comfortable on-stage performance shoes.”

Kanye’s color palatte:

Kanye West: “So [as far as using the future pop colors] I decided it would be a cool idea to use them on the inside of the shoe, and on the tongue. The pink is definitely my type of idea, and the taupe Yeezy, which drops in June, really expresses my sensibility.”

Kanye is the art kid done good:

Kanye West: “I was the first of this generation of the “art kid” that made it really really big. It used to be that the art kid only sold like 100,000, 200,000 records and then I did College Dropout and it’s like, “Oh wow”. I’m basically the same type of person who would have been a hypebeast, or a designer, but I did something incredible, I broke through for everyone. The reason kids gravitate to me is because I’m the proof that you can do stuff that’s really good that you feel like doing and still be successful at it.”

But still can keep it real:

Kanye West: “But I keep it real, and the fans can relate. I’ll have white gym shoes on at the Emmys and to me that’s like me keeping it real to the ‘hood I come from. The people are like, “Man if I had the opportunity to hit the red carpet, that’s what I would do. I’d have a G-shock on with a suit.” When I get into that Nike office there are different people rooting for me feeling like, “This guy is one of us.” Me getting to work with Nike on a shoe is like the voice of this generation. People feel like they’re in there with me, ‘cause they can communicate with me. They know me through the blog, and through all the people I have great relationships with.”

A Yeezy 2?

Kanye West: “We had so much stuff, we actually got a version that hopefully can be the Yeezy 2 someday. ”

…that is of course if you’re reading this from your Blackberry while waiting in line for the sneakers. Good luck locking down a pair, and just because we’re into helping everyone out, leave comments about what other locations will be selling the sneakers. And if you’re still on the fence about whether or not you want to cop, check out our behind-the-scenes look at the Air Yeezy, right HERE.
$215, nikesportswear.com,kanyewest.com/blog

Enjoy this pictorial of the hottest Japanese women. [LINK]

Want to take a look at the ins and outs of the Air Yeezy? Click HERE.

Kid Cudi talked about an intense phone conversation he had with Wale, and being bigger than Kanye. [LINK]

The game done changed. Check out 10 players who inspired sports rule changes. [LINK]

And From The Complex Network
Das Gamer: Being a gamer CAN get you laid. Check out this interview with Stoya. [LINK]

Nah Right: Redman x Method Man feat. UGK “City Lights” [LINK]

High Snobiety: Vans Spring 2009 Khaki Pack. Take ‘em to church. [LINK]

Sneaker News: This tech-heavy pack from Nike might actually get you off the couch. [LINK]

Kicks on Fire: Adidas Spring/Summer ’09 [LINK]

OnSMASH: Yeezy remixes “I’m the Shit.” [LINK]

Bastardly: Megan Fox in hot pants. Need we say more? [LINK]

In NYC, in addition to the 21 Mercer store, The House Of Hoops in Harlem, and both the 34th street locations of Foot Locker and Footaction will now be getting the Yeezy. **Also, we just got confirmation that the sneakers will retail for $215. To see hi-res shots of the Yeezy’s, as well as some never-before-seen sketches and prototypes, read our exclusive “Making Of The Air Yeezy” feature.

This morning, we brought you our futuristic new cover story with Kanye West, but that’s just the beginning. Also included in our stellar (if we do say so ourselves) April/May 2009 issue is a special “Making Of The Air Yeezy” feature with Nike Creative Director Mark Smith and Kanye himself.

In the feature, we get the skinny on how the long-awaited sneaker (which hits stores next month) came to be, complete with some never-before-seen blueprints, samples and sketches from the design process. Sneaker fiends, rejoice!

• CLICK HERE TO READ THE “MAKING OF THE AIR YEEZY” FEATURE
• CLICK HERE TO BROWSE THE EXCLUSIVE AIR YEEZY GALLERY

The Air Yeezy official images got themselves up on to Niketalk. Let the countdown begin? [Niketalk]

Shawn Stussy asked everyone to leave him alone, but the game persisted, so he started a blog, and it looks like a new label for Fall. [Shawn Stussy's blog]

Remember Prohibit ? The label is back (again). Wonder if Nick Cannon is still the bankroll. Check it out. [High Snobiety]

June release Jordan V = leaked. [Sneaker News]