Concept

“Kintsukuroi, is the centuries-old Japanese art of fixing broken pottery”.

With “golden lacquer”. This “method celebrates each artifact's unique history

by emphasizing its fractures and breaks instead of hiding or disguising them”.

—Kelly Richman-Abdou

The AND1 Kintsukuroi sneaker concept uses this rich idea of repairing something once broken, while emphasizing it’s history. This idea can easily be inserted into the culture of streetball. In which players wear their story on their sleeve and act in a spontaneously choreographed art.