alp
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sorry to quote this whole spiel, but i disagree with the arenas comment, i think the "new" arenas are better than the "old" arenasThey aren't stopping the pleateds, it's a seasonal design, the cotes itself just gets different materials but the silhouette and style of shoe is the same. It's like the Jordan IV's just getting different materials every year, it's the same with Balenciaga. The pleateds weren't an innovative design. Even the pleate style weren't exactly the same from the past 2-3 season. They were all different.
And look, the cotes from maybe 4-5 years ago, same design shoes just different materials.
My balenciaga from 2-3 years ago. Again, same shoe different materials.
The shoe design itself wasn't innovative at all, high designer shoes has always tried to integrate new and exotic materials to their shoes to separate themselves from the others and that is exactly what the pleateds were.
The only thing they really changed the past few years are the arenas and if I were being honest, I prefer the older ones. Thing was just not sold everywhere.
New vs old:
Trust me, the brand is not going downhill, not even close. Sneakers =/= brand and chances are, Nicolas probabkly has nothing to do with sneakers anymore, same way Raf or Margiela themselves doesn't really handle the sneakers/shoe department anymore, hell they do not even do their own mens line anymore.
