Denis Dekovic on Making Shoes for Ronaldo, Pharrell, and Michael Jackson

The Complex Sneakers Podcast

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Society & Culture

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🗓️ 19 May 2023

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Denis Dekovic is a designer who spent decades at the world’s top sneaker brands—Adidas and Nike, most recently. He started out at Lotto right out of high school, moved to Puma to make shoes for Michael Schumacher, helped Nike take over in soccer, and famously defected to Adidas as part of the “Three Amigos” crew of designers. Here, Dekovic talks about his long career, from sketching shoes as a kid to getting sued by Nike to working with Michael Jackson on the Moonwalker footwear brand before his passing. Also, the cohosts react to the news of Adidas’ latest plans with Yeezy.

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0:00.0	What's up, everybody? It's Jolo Puma. You were listening. You were watching the Complex Sneakers podcast once again as always. I'm joined by my two friends first off to my right.
0:11.8	Mr. Matt Walty.
0:12.8	Two. That's why it's so much again. Real fans know I threw in the once again because we did it back to back to my left.
0:22.0	It's it's like 75 degrees in New York. He got the pastels out.
0:26.5	Mr. Brendan Dye. Hello. Hello. You're the socks. We'll get to don't we're not going to spoil what's on
0:32.9	free. He got the early viral uh sneaker clip. We're on Carlos owner of Soulfly.
0:40.0	He was golfing with Michael Jordan and he like didn't photoshop but he put the music bed on the
0:46.3	background of Michael Jordan dancing to back to back. Oh, I don't remember that. Wow.
0:51.6	He's like he's back to back like I'm Jordan 96 97.
0:54.3	And like Jordan Jordan was dancing on the golf course but he made it seem like Jordan was actually dancing to that.
0:59.8	I didn't know that. No, I didn't know that. I'm sure that went crazy.
1:02.7	I deleted that one out of my brain. Wow. That was one of those early uh chart beat.
1:06.4	Back to back. It was like a thousand people on the story. Back to backs and fights.
1:09.9	The hard hitting news. Back to back.
1:12.2	Watch Michael Jordan dance to back to back. Oh my god. 20,000 clicks easy. Easy, easy chart beat.
1:18.0	Shot up. I used to love back to back. They would play it in giant stadium when Odell would do something good.
1:23.9	And they would just play. Oh man. Just like that.
1:26.6	Odell, we may have to make a trip to Baltimore and you know who we'd stop by to see if we went to go see Odell.
1:32.4	Abdul, you got to check in. I have to say it. I have to say it. Maybe we go to y'all miss miss.
1:37.5	Oh, what? You get a fact check me. Abdul spiking the lens right now. Yeah.
1:43.9	What did he fact check you almost most recently? He said something like he knows.
1:49.6	And what I do know is what I do know. I still don't have the list. Oh, the list.
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