Sneakers. Cultural biography of sports shoes. 2nd edition. Kulinicheva E.

Sneakers have long become not only the phenomenon of modern fashion, but also the phenomenon of modern culture, attractive and contradictory at the same time. The book of the historian of sports design and journalist Ekaterina Kulinicheva is an attempt to look at the history of this type of shoes not through the history of brands and models, but through the role that sports shoes played and plays in culture, through its “cultural biography”, which largely determines our The attitude to this item of the wardrobe. It is this biography that is in the focus of the author's attention.

Sneakers turn out to be not only the history of sports and fashion, but also the history of everyday life, medicine and bodily, technical inventions and industry, cinema, music, subcultures, etc. Among the heroes of the book not only brands and athletes but also directors, musicians and ordinary fashion consumers who accept or reject sneakers. Special attention is paid to sneakers as an object of collecting.