PinnedLa Vie En Retail with Oliver from NikeEpisode # 6— Oliver Pressinger — July and August are considered a vacation season, so this article took us a bit longer to finish as it’s all about sea & sand. But we still made it! …Sneakers14 min readSneakers14 min read
PinnedLa Vie En Retail with Alex GumbottomEpisode # 5 — @gumbottom — For the 5th episode, we caught up with Boston-born, NYC-raised & now Paris-based very good friend of ours Alex Gumbottom (yeah, because of his love for the gum soles). He’s the real OG sneaker & streetwear collector, who’s famous for his really giant collection of “grails” and on-feet Instagram posts…Sneakers10 min readSneakers10 min read
PinnedLa Vie En Retail with Cyriac from SNS ParisEpisode # 4 — Cyriac — Lockdown #3. Paris, March 2021. Almost a year after the very first “stay at home” order and we’re back at it (again!). …Retail6 min readRetail6 min read
PinnedLa Vie En Retail with Rob from Skatepark of TampaEpisode #3 — Rob Meronek — For this month’s episode “La Vie En Retail” we caught up with Rob Meronek of TheBoardr, a skater, sneaker lover, and innovator, who’s spent more than 20 years working at Skatepark of Tampa (SPoT), a crusty little skateboard hut established in 1993 in Tampa, Florida. …Florida8 min readFlorida8 min read
Oct 23, 2020La Vie En Retail with Olliewood SkateshopEpisode # 2 — Tom Jungbluth — For this month’s “La Vie En Retail” we went to the beautiful city of Luxembourg to talk to Tom Jungbluth of Olliewood Skateshop. We took the first train in the morning and even during the “covid time” it’s fully booked. Well, it took us only 2.5hrs from Paris and we’re…Sneakers8 min readSneakers8 min read
Oct 23, 2020La Vie En Retail with Vega SkateshopEpisode #1 — François Wuest — “La Vie En Retail” is a series of dialogues about daily life in footwear retail: its challenges, fun moments, amazing stories of store-owners, and how they make it work. Today, for the first-ever article on Sneakerdraws, we’re sitting down for a coffee near Canal St.Martin …Sneakers4 min readSneakers4 min read
