\n\tIn a rare opportunity to look back, the Kith<\/a> founder has partnered with Assouline<\/a> to compile a book that documents 1,848 shoe collaborations from the brand\u2019s 15-year history with Adidas, Asics, Clarks, New Balance<\/a>, Nike<\/a>, On<\/a> and more.<\/p>\n \n\tJust like a shoe, work on the 15th anniversary compendium began two years ago by physically gathering all of the pairs. Most had already been preserved by an archivist, but a few strays had to be tracked down before they could all be laid out across the 20,000-square-foot second floor of Kith<\/a>\u2018s office (prior to it being built out).<\/p>\n \t\t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\tA selection of Kith<\/a> x Asics sneakers from Kith: The Footwear Archive. <\/p>\n \n\t\u201cI got to walk around that space and see all of my work for the first time in one place,\u201d Fieg told Footwear News. \u201cThat was really an emotional period for me. The way that I remember certain milestones in my life \u2014 like when my child was born, when I got married, certain store openings and trips I\u2019ve taken \u2014 they all go back to the reference of the footwear releases for me.\u201d They\u2019re the most substantial indicators of that time.\u201d <\/p>\n \n\tKith: The Footwear Archive is split into two sections, the first featuring 776 pairs of shoes that went on sale and the second featuring an additional 1,072 made up of unreleased prototypes and friends-and-family exclusives.<\/p>\n \n\tAmong the second section are the Blazer, Blazer Lows and Air Force 1 Lows Nikes made exclusively for Fieg\u2019s wedding party. In the first comes a shoe tied to both a professional and personal life milestone, the Asics Gel-Lyte 5 \u201cSalmon Toe\u201d that released for Kith\u2019s 10th anniversary and came in the same year as the birth of his first daughter, Maia. <\/p>\n![\"Kith](\"https:\/\/wwd.com\/wp-content\/themes\/vip\/pmc-wwd-2021\/assets\/public\/lazyload-fallback.gif\")
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