These days, sneaker culture can feel like a sophisticated underground club. There’s so much involved in buying a pair of covetable kicks—you have to research them on the blogs, figure out the release date, know which stores are carrying them, and then try to reserve a killer pair in your size. A skilled sneaker head is prepared, tactile, and ultimately dressed to kill. Someone else who is always looking sharp taking down the competition? The infamous boogeyman himself, John Wick. Wick and his comrade's crew of off-the-books hitmen have their own secret society and are always dressed to the nines while putting out hits. Trying to fight someone for the latest pair of fresh kicks? Maybe don’t take on these guys…
In honor of the upcoming film hitting theaters February 10, we rounded up some of the most-anticipated designer kicks of the year, along with a few bangers you can get your hands on right now – guaranteed to match any artillery. With some of these upscale sneakers in your arsenal, you can go form to function, all while maintaining the killer style of John Wick himself. If Wick were rocking some of these functional beauties, imagine the damage he’d do…