Converse Taps Natasha Cloud for Latest Collection Honoring Black Creatives

Converse is continuing its ongoing commitment to honor Black culture and Black history with its newest collection. Called the “It’s Possible Collection,” the range was developed by Converse-sponsored WNBA athlete Natasha Cloud along with the footwear brand’s designer Marissa Bynoe and product merchandiser Javon Martin. According to Converse, this collection is part of the brand’s ongoing commitment to honor Black culture and uplift Black joy. A part of the collection, each of the three collaborators share their personal life journeys expressed through one signature Converse style. For Cloud, she took on the Leather Ox sneaker. With nine patches, words, and symbols that represent elements of social change that are easily applied and removed, the design allows these shoes to be worn in many different ways. Cloud said about the style that she knows that changing your shoes to match your present self is “a way of therapy, it’s a way of vulnerability, it’s a way of strength.” Marissa Bynoe CREDIT: Courtesy of Converse Bynoe reinterpreted the Chuck 70 style for this collection. Bynoe credits her mother and grandmother, who encouraged her to become a professional creative, as the main inspiration of her sneaker. It features mixed material patchwork that, according to Converse, “nods to the beauty that

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