The Dutch beer brand Heineken not only fills bottles with their product, but now also taps it into a sneaker.
The Heineken team has teamed up with Dominic Ciambrone, footwear designer and founder of sneaker collective The Surgeon, to launch a model of their own, Heineken CEO Dolf van den Brink announced last week. The focus of the shoe is the new type of beer ‘Heineken Silver’.
In terms of color, the so-called ‘Heinekicks’ are based on the brand’s typical green, which is rounded off with the red of the Heineken star, silver elements for the ‘Heineken Silver’ beer variety and white. Then there is the eye-catching, transparent sole, which stands out due to its yellow-gold feel. It’s actually supposed to be beer. So that this does not stick out, the person carrying it must always keep moving.
It’s not the beer brand’s first foray into streetwear. For example, Heineken has already collaborated with the US men’s fashion retailer Union, the Japanese streetwear brand A Bathing Ape and the sports goods manufacturer Kappa for a World Cup capsule.