Astor Chambers' Game-Changing Work With Pharrell, Nike, and Adidas

The Complex Sneakers Podcast

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🗓️ 24 February 2023

⏱️ 94 minutes

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The Complex Sneakers Podcast is co-hosted by Joe La Puma, Brendan Dunne, and Matt Welty. This week they’re joined by Astor Chambers, a sneaker marketer and brand builder who’s been in the industry for decades at brands like Nike, Adidas, and Billionaire Boys Club. Astor traces his long history in the industry, from first connecting with Nike as a high school student to hooking up rappers like Fabolous and Jadakiss with free shoes to working on Beyoncé’s Adidas line. Also, the cohosts pontificate on the big bubble Air Max 1 ‘86 and finally dish on the ComplexCon sneaker of the year panel.

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0:00.0	What's up everybody it's Joel Pomer you were listening you were watching the
0:04.5	Complex Sneakers podcast as always I'm joined by my two friends my two co-host
0:08.6	first off to my right. Mr. Matt wealthy. Put a little sauce on it. Yeah a little
0:13.9	sauce because you know I've been here since 745 why not. No you got here before
0:18.8	me to my left who I'm talking about. Mr. Brendan Dunn. What time did you get
0:23.9	here today because I was early. I don't know. Okay. Wait a
0:29.2	kill the bitch. Sleep in the office. I'm working at 815 I was like I'm
0:35.3	definitely gonna be the first one here. He was already here. Never do that
0:38.3	Joe. Sleep in the office. No. Not once. No wealthy. Yeah. So did you ever come
0:45.0	back to the office late and like be here till 2 a.m. I don't know if I came
0:49.2	back. I just remember the one. I think we mentioned here it's like that what I
0:53.2	had to write that John Michael Wozniak story Michael Jordan's yeah Joe hit
0:58.4	the yeah the shrug there was like a hard deadline on that I think we were also
1:01.6	unveiling Victor Cruz's sneaker room collaboration they were both like
1:05.4	those wide features with the big images and I'm like both of these are due
1:08.5	tomorrow. And they're not done yet. The latest. Even one time you went to bed. At
1:14.1	the office. May may have been like three in the morning. And where did you sleep?
1:20.5	This is the old complex office of Rockefeller Center. Remember we were in that
1:25.1	row. Yeah together right in the men's bathroom was right there and there
1:30.3	was that weird big like circular couch. I say slept in the bathroom. No. There
1:33.6	was that like circular couch. Yeah. Yeah. Yes. slept on that. Wow. I think my
1:38.5	latest was when James Gandalfini died. I was playing soccer at Pier 40. It was
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