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Fresh off the Factory Floor
Posted by Gavin Lucas, 15 June 2007, 16:01 Permalink Comments (12)
Behold, the FAC51-Y3. No, it’s not a late addition to the musical catalogue of Mancunian record label Factory Records, clearly, but a highly limited trainer from Y-3 (the brand created by adidas and Yohji Yamamoto), devised especially to celebrate the twenty-fifth anniversary of legendary Manchester nightclub The Haçienda. The shoe’s design is a collaboration between Peter Saville (the original Factory Records graphic designer), Ben Kelly (the architect who designed the original Haçienda interiors) and Joy Division/New Order bass player, Peter Hook.
The trainers come in a custom six-sided, maple-bottomed box (the same shape as the Haçienda’s dancefloor) and will be wrapped in four sheets of tissue paper – two will feature Kevin Cummins’ photography of the club in its late 80s heyday, one will be adorned with Ben Kelly’s original design sketches for the Haçienda’s interior, while a fourth will reflect how the space looks today.
A DVD documenting a discussion between Kelly, Saville and Hook sharing anecdotes about the club, Factory Records and how they feel about that time in their lives 25 years on will also be included in the package – an excerpt from which is being taken especially for CR Blog. (We will post it up here as soon as we can).
The shoe, strictly limited to just 250 pairs, will be sold exclusively in the Y-3 Manchester store for two weeks before it goes on sale in Y-3’s Shop-in-Shop at Selfridges London, Y-3’s flagship store in Tokyo and other selected retailers worldwide. Best save up though, the FAC51-Y3 will be priced at a cool £345.
Here's a pair of FAC51-Y3s sitting on an original slab of metal plate from the Haçienda’s industrial-chic pillars with some wood from the original dancefloor...
12 Comments
good idea but not quite sure about them, might have been better in an old school adidas trainer not y3!!!!
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2007-07-05 17:19:46
Where's the Joy Division oven gloves?
2007-07-16 15:49:04
went to the launch of the hacienda exhibition at the urbis last night, saw ian brown in a pair and wanted them even more, going to be waiting outside the Y3 shop saturday morning to buy a pair, they look so cool.....
2007-07-19 12:10:21
I just received these sneakers in my shop today. they are amazing. RICCARDI BOSTON MASSACHUSETTS
2007-07-26 21:01:03
great packaging. butt ugly shoe.
2007-12-29 04:33:48
After three minutes of being worn they will look like crap.
As for the pseudo cool packaging, give your head a shake, this ain't art, its pretentiousness defined to perfection.
£345.00 a pair, proves that there is no upper limit to the cost of bad taste, ugly design or the stupidity of the wannabes who might buy them, stroll on.
2008-02-29 20:45:33
And some clown will actually buy them?
2008-04-04 01:40:13
u couldnt wear them round our way, someone would chop your legs off
2008-04-05 15:32:39
They aren't the best shoes but not bad either. I would give them 5 out of 10 in online branded shoes category. Need a bit of 'facelifting' before the pair can become a star in branded footwear.
2008-07-04 11:32:50
I have a pair of size 9's that I bought of a friend that have never been worn. Should I keep them or sell them on?
2008-08-09 21:29:16
omg.. kwl shoes!!
I need some more infromation about these shoes because i have an assignment about the designer and it says that i have to provide information of one thing that the designer designed.. so yeah... i just need some information..
2008-09-07 04:57:54
Got a pair of Hacienda Y3 for signed by Ian Brown and Shaun Ryder-should i sell them???
2008-10-07 21:52:55
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