Utopia at his feet...

Another collaboration today and also another unlikely one.

This one involves this very dapper and distinguished man below.

This of course is esteemed American architect Frank Lloyd Wright and the collaboration is one between New Balance and Kith founder Ronnie Fieg who worked with the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation to pay homage to Frank Lloyd Wrights utopian concept for the Broadacre City that first appeared in his book The Disappearing City in 1932.

“The mission of an architect is to help people understand how to make life more beautiful, the world a better one for living in, and to give reason, rhyme, and meaning to life.”

Feig has designed a pair of New Balance 998s (aka the “silhouette”) on the occasion of the sneaker’s 35th anniversary.

The suede designs come in two colorways, both meant to represent the agrarian landscape and buildings seen in the concept’s physical models that were displayed in the entryway of the Hacienda de la Chandler at Taliesin West after 1935.

Fieg explained saying - “Broadacre was Wright’s way to address inequality, to distribute and use resources fairly, and to be gentler on the Earth. These kind of forward-thinking ideas are what we need in today’s society more than ever.”

You can’t argue with that!

Queen Marie

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