Converse Celebrates Day of the Dead With Chuck ‘Dia de Muertos’ Collection

Following the launch of its “Mi Gente” collection for Latino Heritage Month, Converse is tapping into Latino culture further with a new capsule for Day of the Dead. With ample time to spare before the holiday, the Chuck 70 and Chuck Taylor All Star Lift take disparate approaches to their inclusion in the “Dia de Muertos” collection. The Chuck 70 gets a rainbow gradient for its all-over print canvas upper, which hosts an assortment of iconography for the Mexican holiday with no shortage of sugar skulls, or calaveras. The style is based off of papel picado, a traditional Mexican craft of carving intricate designs into tissue paper. More muted is the Chuck Taylor All Star Lift platform sneaker, which uses rainbow stitching across the natural canvas upper. An embroidered heel patch hosts a sugar skull, with another one appears on the inner tongue for a “apellido” graphic leaving room for the wearer to write their family name. This latter detail features on both sneakers in the pack, as does a specially molded midsole taking on the papel picado aesthetic. Both sneakers also look to marigolds, flowers said to guide souls back to their family, for the outsole — with the

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