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Maison Mihara Blakey
MAISON MIHARA BLAKEY, THE FONDED SOLE WITH A SHELL TOE
THE THIRD ORIGINAL SILHOUETTE SOLE OF MIHARA YASUHIRO
The Peterson looks towards the Converse, the Hank towards the skate shoe Californian. The Blakey looks towards basketball from the 70s and its most recognizable signature: the shell toe, this molded rubber toe in the shape of a shell which protected the front of the foot and which hip-hop has made legendary. Mihara Yasuhiro takes it back to his Original Soleline, where the sole is not designed but modeled by hand in clay before being molded — hence this rubber which seems to have melted and flowed around the foot.
On the Blakey, the shell takes the same treatment as the sole. It is made of the same rubber, with the same irregular reliefs and the same deliberate traces of wear, so that the tip and the bottom are only one piece. The branding is limited to the MMY and the name of the model embroidered on the side, and a patch on the tongue: as with the entire line, it is the shape that makes the logo.
TOVAS, SUEDE, GRAFFITI: VERSIONS OF THE BLAKEY
The Blakey OG Sole Canvas Low, in black or off-white, is the reference version: a thick canvas on the ecru sole. The daimversion, in black or white suede calfskin, is the dressiest and most expensive. The seasonal editions play on the material — shiny silicone-coated canvas, torn and overdyed torn and overdyedcanvas, graffiti printed canvas — and give each collection a Blakey that we never see again then.
SIZE AND PROPORTIONS
Like the whole house, the Blakey only exists in full sizes, from 36 to 46. The fit is normal with a generous forefoot, even more sensitive here because of the rigid shell: in a half size, take the entire upper one if you have a wide foot, the lower one if you have a narrow one. Of the three models OG Sole, it is the most visually fitted — less massive than the Hank, more structured than the Peterson.
HOW TO WEAR IT BLAKEY
It is worn like a retro basketball shoe: straight cuffed jeans, wide sweatpants, high white socks. The shell draws the eye to the tip, so the bottom of the pants should fall just above it. In our sneakers luxurydepartment, it completes the trio of Maison Mihara Yasuhiro : the same clay sole applied to the third great archetype of the sneaker, after the low-top canvas and the skate shoe.
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