As we all know, most skate shoe brands have either been bought out by big corporate brands or they are corporate brands that have nothing to do with skateboarding. But out of all the corporate chaos pro skateboarders Ben Gore, Jon Nguyen, Jordan Sancgez, Kevin Coakley and Christian Maalouf released a completely non corporate, skater ran shoe company called State Footwear.
The whole point of State Footwear is that they’re “free and liberated” as they’re slogan says. They’re againsts corporate sponsors and are completely running the brand themselves. The brand was made in January 2016 and since then have made an impact on the skate industry with articles in Jenkem Magazine and many Skaters talking about them.
They’re shoes start from $55 (£42.08) to they’re highest priced shoe which is $70 (£53.56). The shoes are the standard price which is nice since recentely the trend of skate shoes over $80 has been more apparent recentely in the industry.
They’ve also done a colab with skateboard deck brand WKND which is made by Grant Yansura and is the board sponsor of Christian Maaloof.
I think over time State will become more popular and will gain more attraction, or on the other hand it might stay the same and just slowly dekline (see what I did there) and just dissapear.
Anyway everyone here at Voyage wish State the best in their future projects and we hope that they do stay “free and liberated” as their slogan says.
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