256 pages Text(s), photographs and design by Unorthodox Styles 20.3 x 22 cm Language: English Hardback Publisher: Thames & Hudson 2005
Before social media, sneaker knowledge in Europe lived on forums, and in London the reference was Crooked Tongues. The people behind it, working as the design studio Unorthodox Styles (now U-Dox), wrote, photographed and designed this guide for Thames & Hudson. More than 180 models from eleven major brands, shot for the book in over 550 photographs, with brand histories, a glossary, a chronology and a directory of shops and websites.
2005 was the year sneaker culture moved into print. The same year saw Sneaker Freaker: The Book 2002–05 out of Melbourne and the adidas Superstar 35th anniversary. Twenty years on, the directory of shops and websites reads as a snapshot of a scene just before it went mainstream.
