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French brands Paraboot and Hélas have united to update the Isère-based shoe brand’s signature MICHAEL shoe. With the new collaborative effort, the brands look inward at their collective French roots.Imparting its signature skate DNA, Hélas’ interpretation of the MICHAEL silhouette appears in black suede with beige Norwegian-style seams. Finishing off the  Saint Jean de Moirans-crafted shoe is a black sole, two-tone woven shoestrings, a co-branded insole and the Hélas name embossed on the heel. Even though the updated iteration incorporates the Paris-based skate brand’s design style, the collaboration still leans into the shoes’ 70-year history.To bring the shoe to life, the campaign taps Moroccan-born French rapper Yassine Stein.Take a look at the collaboration in the gallery above. The Paraboot x Hélas collaboration releases online on Saturday, November 19.In related news, A-COLD-WALL* and ROA reconnect for their second collaboration of 2022. 

One way that sneaker brands have celebrated Christmas is by manufacturing kicks that are inspired by the fictional hater of the holly jolly holiday: Dr. Seuss’ The Grinch. Nike first started off this trend with the late Kobe Bryant’s Kobe 6 “Grinch” colorway in 2010, and now fast forward 12 years later, adidas is hopping on the movement with this forthcoming Forum Low “Grinch” installment.The top halves of these seasonally-appropriate sneakers are done up with two shades of bold greens and devised with shaggy suedes to translate the character’s fur. Tongues split their branding between Grinch’s evil eyes on the right shoe and the standard Trefoil hits on the left. Inside the kicks, the insoles have been graced with actual imagery of the animated creature dressed in Santa-inspired garb. Removable pins that you can use to accessorize the kicks include The Grinch’s various facial expressions, gifts and his sidekick Max. Furthermore, the kicks are housed inside a special red shoe box that is printed with his hand dangling an adidas-branded ornament.More images of the nostalgia-inducing sneakers are available in the gallery above, and you can expect them to release on December 1 through adidas and select retailers.Pharrell and adidas also revealed a new “Animal Print” NMD colorway.

Our Legacy WORK SHOP has a thing for reworking staple pieces, and now it turns its attention away from everyday essential garments to produce two pairs of Dr. Martens 1461s. As expected, subtlety is at the forefront of Our Legacy’s collaboration, working with deadstock (and sustainably sourced) offcuts of Horween Chromexel leather and “Desert Oasis” suede courtesy of the C.F. Stead Tannery to create a 1461 in “Black” and “Red Alert” colorways, respectively.From there, Our Legacy WORK SHOP applies its signature Yin Yang logo on the lateral rear quarter of the heel and threads waxed laces through the 1461’s three-eyelet set-up. A “WORK SHOP” logo hits up the tongue, before dual branding finds itself emblazoning the footbed of the shoe.While the collaborative effort is clean and subtle, don’t mistake it for not being exhaustive. A plain black welt differs from the expected yellow stitching you typically find on the leather offering, and that leather is courtesy of Horween making it some of the most reliable and long-lasting in the industry. Everything on the shoe is deadstock, playing further into Our Legacy WORK SHOP’s ethos, and the same attention to detail to ensure longevity has been applied to the suede pair.Both are finished with a black-and-gold-scripted heel tab, Dr. Martens’ proprietary AirWair sole unit, and cost £200 GBP/$230 USD each. Take a closer look at the shoes above and pick them up while stocks last on Our Legacy’s website or in its stores now.In case you missed it, here’s another look at the upcoming JJJJound x New Balance 991.