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J SHOES met up with Stars of Track & Field last night and...

IT WAS AMAZING!!!!

Fist-pumping high energy music got the whole place moving!

Read more about Stars of Track & Field in this story.

Project Runway Model Valeria!!! She's a sweetheart < 3

J SHOES' AW10 model, Valeria Leonova is currently featured on the new PROJECT RUNWAY on the Lifetime Network. Valeria was a pure professional and very down to earth sweetheart during our up-state New York shoot on a cold and rainy day in mid November. Working a 12 hour day with zero complaints, we hope she takes it all the way!

Valeria's Bio on Project Runway website!

P.S. Don't forget! Celebrating the 2010 Winter Olympics ....this week only!! Buy two pairs of J SHOES at http://www.shopjshoes.com/ and receive 50% off your second pair! Use code: GOLD!

Woohoooooo!!! 2010 Winter Olympics!

J SHOES + Brooklyn Industries + Athlete = PURE AWESOME

To much international acclaim, British indie rock band, Athlete, makes their stateside debut with their new album Black Swan.




As a warm welcome, Brooklyn Industries, a visionary artist-owned and operated clothing and bag team, collaborated with Athlete in a "picture within a picture" photo campaign.

Now putting that all aside...

I'm all ready pretty excited about Athlete. Then I was stunned by the beautiful photography in the campaign. What put me over the top is that J SHOES helped outfit the band! Check out the popular J SHOES Montana in Dark Brown in this pic.

For a behind-the-scenes look at the Brooklyn Industries and Athlete photo campaign plus a sneak peek at Athlete's music video, click here.

Plus, Brooklyn Industries is hosting give-aways and more exclusive content to be coming soon!

I can't wait!!! Can you??

J SHOES featured on Lee Turgesen in movie Silver Tongues

J SHOES are featured in a two-time award-winning independent film - Silver Tongues on actor Lee Turgesen. Lee was on the show Oz and in the movie Wayne's World.

SILVER TONGUES follows a couple, GERRY and JOAN, who use their talent for acting and performance as part of a dark game. Driving from town to town, the two lovers don different personas to deceive and disrupt the lives of the people in their path. But each manipulation begins to take its toll. Soon the performances spiral out of control, and the game itself threatens their very relationship.

DIRECTOR/WRITER:
Simon Arthur is a first time feature director and writer. Simon grew up in Scotland and studied at the Screen Academy of Scotland in Edinburgh where he received his MFA in Advanced Screen Practice. He wrote and directed two short films, which played at numerous film festivals and garnering critical aclaim and awards. The first short entitled REBEL SONG won awards at the Asheville Film Festival, Schweitzer Lakedance Film Festival, Lake Forest Film Festival, Twin Rivers Media Festival, and Woods Hole Film Festival. His second short entitled SILVER TONGUES is a character study and show piece for the feature film of the same title. The short won awards at Rainier Film Festival, Westchester Film Festival, Southern Winds Film Festival, and Poppy Jasper Film Festival.

PRODUCER:
Jared Moshe is the principal partner at Sidetrack Films, an independent production and financing company. The company's films include 2005 IDA Award Winner FAVELA RISING, 2007 Sundance premiere LOW AND BEHOLD and the groundbreaking documentary KURT COBAIN ABOUT A SON.

Charity + Shoes = Good Stuff

Charity + Shoes? Awesome idea, right? We thought so too!

J SHOES donated shoes as auction items and decor for STEPS TO THE CURE, Maryland's charitable event for breast cancer. The event also featured a fashion show with designers Christian Siriano, Carmen Marc Valvo, Marisa Marchetto (Vogue cartoonist), and selected MICA students :)

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Ping Pong at Habitat

Join Habitat Shoe Boutique in Kansas, for their annual Ping-Pong Challenge, this Thursday, June 18th from 6 to 10 pm! Beat this man and win! If you are in the area, it is a must see, must play and must do!

MICA: Before And After

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The pictures are in! The MICA event was a huge success and the students really stepped it up this year. They presented amazing and innovative creations made from just five single shoes! Comment and vote for who you think had the most creative transformation by looking at the "Before" and "After" shots above. Fantastic photos taken by Josh Sisk (www.JoshSisk.com)

MICA event last night ROCKS

We are all tired and elated from a very awesome evening displaying the MICA art student's projects at XS (www.xsbaltimore.com). The pieces were terrific, they food and drinks were flowing, the vibe was hot!

Students were able to create beautiful creations from 5 shoes. REUSE, RECYCLE! More images to come to vote on your favorite!

J SHOES & MICA team up

J SHOES & MICA

Last year...students created the most wonderful pieces of art and fashion using single J SHOES! What will this year's students create using 5 J SHOES?!?! Wait to see!!! We want your vote!

MR Magazine loves J SHOES

John Jones from MR Magazine sporting J SHOES Signature Series by Carlos Campos.

J SHOES & King TUT

The King Tut exhibit in Atlanta was a hit in its first opening weekend. J SHOES collaborated with the Atlanta event team and local store Laced Up to develop eqyptian inspired shoes as seen below.

Link to CNN article about the KING TUT exhibit in Atlanta: http://www.cnn.com/2008/TRAVEL/getaways/11/14/tutankhamun.pharaohs/index.html

Models holding KING TUT inspired Sorrento shoe by J SHOES.

VIP event with shoes on display.

Shoes available at Laced Up in Altanta during the KING TUT exhibit now through March 2009. Pictured: Ernel Dawkins, owner of Laced Up

KING TUT shoe premiere

Parker Bros and The Dream Team are proud to join forces with the King Tut Exhibit, The Garner Circle Pr and Laced Up Sneaker Boutique to bring you this week's edition of F.A.T

Tuesday @ Straits. 7pm - 10pm

Join us as fashion meets history.In the midst of Atlanta welcoming the King Tut Exhibit, we will premier 2 classic sneakers inspired by this phenomenal exhibit.

King Tut exhibit heads to Atlanta, Laced Up boutique puts their best foot forward.Atlanta, Ga (PR Web) November - "Tutankhamun: The Golden King and the Great Pharaohs," presented by the Michael C. Carlos Museum of Emory University will run from November 15, 2008 to May 22, 2009, at the Atlanta Civic Center. Laced Up Sneaker boutique has partnered with J SHOES, to produce the official "TUT" shoe to be on display for millions to see. With only 36 pairs of the classic Sorrento (women's gladiator) and the Starr (men's sneaker) in metallic gold leather, the coveted shoe has already built up quite a waiting list.

The shoe will be revealed in the "Fashions of Tut" media mixer at Straits restaurant on Tuesday, November 11, 2008 and will go on display for the opening of the exhibit on November 15, 208. Laced Up will be the only store in the nation to exclusively carry the "TUT" J SHOES series. The Sorrento for women is best described as gladiator style goes glam with a hybrid style sandal. It features a soft leather upper in a casual Roman inspired sandal boot style with a round open toe and a strappy leather toe thong post wraps over a wide leather vamp. To compliment the Sorrento, Laced Up will also carry the men's Starr in the matching metallic gold. The Starr J SHOES Starr hightop features smooth leather upper in a classic basketball sneaker style, full lace up front with doubled joined ankle straps and adjustable Velcro closures.

On Tuesday, November 11th, invited guests will be privy to see shoes fit only for royalty. Atlanta's premier diamond jeweler, Prriya and Chintans" will jewel the "TUT" version shoes in thousands of dollars worth of Egyptian inspired jewels for the 'Fashion of Tut" affair. Media Preview at 8:00 pm at Straits resturant. For more information visit www.lacedup.biz or www.JSHOES.com.

J SHOES teams up with our friends at Laced Up (atlanta, ga) and the King Tut exhibit to introduce two items to the Tutlanta tribe. J SHOES will introduce two King Tut Shoes for men and women sold exclusively at Laced Up. Visit www.tutlanta.com!! Shoe images coming soon!

MICA Students Repurpose J SHOES

By Bret McCabe City Paper- Baltimore

A few weeks back J Shoes, whose corporate offices are based in Owings Mills, offered the Maryland Institute College of Art's Fibers Department the opportunity to re-purpose single shoes left over from its design samples. The proposed question:"Could a contemporary shoe be transformed into an entirely different object with an entirely different purpose?"

Sixteen undergrads accepted the challenge, and their resulting creations debuted last night in the Rosenberg Gallery on the second floor of the Brown Center. And what the students came up with--which range from the fashionably practical, such as gloves and hats and corsets, to entire dresses and even some outlandishly imaginative pieces--are fun, inventive, and witty. Personal faves include Samuel Shea's "Animal Mask," which looks like the patchwork rococo attempt of an okapi to camouflage itself as a camel (and was named the contest winner), and Cassie Gretshcel's "Eye Protection," which brings to mind what a Readymade-reading Penelope Pitstop might wear to match her handmade driving gloves in a road race around Iceland. The show runs through Oct. 15.

Art with a sole

Art with a sole
Students make articles from donated shoes
By Bryna Zumerbzumer@patuxent.com

A shoe on your foot may be just a shoe. But a shoe in the hands of a student at Maryland Institute College of Art, in Baltimore, may become a dress, some gloves, an animal mask or even binoculars.J Shoes, an international shoe manufacturer, recently asked students in a costume design class at MICA’s fiber department a question: “Could a contemporary shoe be transformed into an entirely different object with an entirely different purpose?”

The project was sparked when the shoe company, based nationally on Cronridge Drive in Owings Mills, was deciding what to do with the hundreds of half-a-pair of shoes they received for testing from the company factory in Thailand....

They had three weeks to complete their creations, which were then displayed in the Brown Center on Oct. 1.The students’ work was also judged by a panel consisting of the chairwoman of the fiber department, the editor of Style Magazine and representatives of J Shoes.The top three winners received prizes ranging from a pair of shoes to $300 in cash.Students said it was a fun way to work with a variety of fabrics.“I liked that I had the opportunity to work with new materials, such as leather, and it gave me the opportunity to deconstruct and reconstruct something,” said sophomore Sarah Konigsburg, whose finished product, a bag “with a heel,” won second place.

Professor Jessica Ford said the creations were successful across the board and also gave students a more pragmatic project.“There was clearly evidence of a lot of work and I think the students were passionate about it,” she said. “It was sort of a nice introduction to marketing for them. At art school, they are sort of focused on concept and idea.”The J Shoes exhibit runs until Oct. 15 on the second floor of the Brown Center at MICA, 1300 Mount Royal Ave., in Baltimore.

Maryland Institute College of Art Collaboration

MICA art exhibit and Half Pair contest was a success!!! More to come!

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Hot Nashville retailer POSH hit the city with a hot party Friday night! Fashion show including hot clothing styles & J SHOES! Check out the models in Comos and Selmas. Looking smart! Great attendance and fun had by all. Terrah, one of our favorite little buyers. http://www.poshonline.com/

Art School Half Pair Contest

Join J SHOES in its first collaboration with Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore, MD this Wednesday from 5:30-7:30 pm at Rosenberg Gallery in the MICA Brown Center.

Three weeks ago, students from the fiber department at MICA chose five shoes out of J SHOES’ collection of half pairs. Their project: Could a contemporary shoe be transformed into an entirely different object with an entirely different purpose?

Join us in viewing the artwork and discovering the top three winners. Judging will take place earlier in the day by a panel of top judges: the MICA Fiber Department chair, Style Magazine Baltimore editor, US J SHOES Marketing Manager and J SHOES representatives. The winners will be announced during the gallery opening that evening. Cash prizes awarded.