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Nike's laceless trainers feature in today's Dezeen Weekly newsletter
The latest edition of our Dezeen Weekly newsletter features Nike's new laceless trainers. More
The latest edition of our Dezeen Weekly newsletter features Nike's new laceless trainers. More
German designer Emilie Burfeind has developed a sock sneaker with a mushroom mycelium sole and a knitted upper made from canine hair that was shed while grooming and would otherwise have been discarded. More
Sportswear brand Nike has released the laceless Nike GO FlyEase trainers, which can be put on and taken off without using your hands to replace "antiquated" shoes with laces. More
Shoe brand Buffalo London has teamed up with digital fashion house The Fabricant to create a flaming virtual trainer that can only be "worn" in images for social media. More
The latest edition of our Dezeen Weekly newsletter features the endlessly recyclable UltraBOOST DNA LOOP trainer by Adidas. More
Adidas has started a public trial of its endlessly recyclable UltraBOOST DNA LOOP trainer, created as part of the sportswear company's drive to conform to the principles of the circular economy. More
Sportswear brand Adidas has worked with design studio Kram/Weisshaar to create a robotically woven upper called Strung that can be made to the exact specification of athletes. More
Textile designer Chrissa Amuah has put her own spin on a pair of Allbirds trainers by embellishing them with geometric shapes informed by the Adinkra symbols used in Ghana. More
Recycled plastic and rubber make up this unisex trainer by Belgian brand Norm, which has set out to change the "nonsense" manufacturing process of a standard pair of shoes. More
Sports brand Nike has created the Air Max 2090 to demonstrate what it sees as being the future of trainer design. More
Sportswear brand Adidas has once again teamed up with environmental initiative Parley for the Oceans to release an updated version of its Terrex hiking boot, which is made using recycled ocean plastic. More
Nike used factory scraps and recycled "space waste yarn" to create the Space Hippie sneakers in an experimental project to reduce the carbon impact of its products. More
Basketball player Stephen Curry and sports brand Under Armour have created a sneaker influenced by architect David Adjaye's Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. More
Sneaker brand APL has opened its first store — a dramatically narrow, runway-like space in Los Angeles with an interior designed by architect Bernard Dubois. More
For his first footwear design, architect Kengo Kuma has created a trainer in collaboration with Japanese sports brand ASICS that draws on the craft of bamboo knitting. More
Nike's new running shoe could prevent the chance of injury by 52 per cent, helping solve the problem that most often takes runners out of the game. More
Canadian brand Native Shoes has developed a sneaker that is entirely made from one continuous piece of algae-enriched EVA in a bid to clean up the footwear industry. More
New footwear brand Một has created a shoe it sees as distinctly Vietnamese, in a pushback against the influence of globalisation. More
Footwear brand Allbirds uses merino wool to manufacture the textile uppers of its Wool Runners shoes, which also feature laces made from recycled plastic bottles and insoles produced using castor bean oil. More
Nike's Joyride Run Flyknit trainer features a cushioned underfoot platform made up of thousands of tiny rubber beads that mould to the runner's foot shape and stride over time. More