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The Complex Sneakers Podcast

GQ's Jim Moore on Collaborating With Virgil Abloh, Ronnie Fieg, and Kanye

The Complex Sneakers Podcast

Complex

Society & Culture

4.81.3K Ratings

🗓️ 15 October 2021

⏱️ 81 minutes

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Summary

The Complex Sneakers Podcast is co-hosted by Joe La Puma, Brendan Dunne, and Matt Welty. In this week's episode, they are joined by Jim Moore, the legendary GQ creative director who spent four decades at the magazine shaping how men in America dress. Moore talks through his career and points in it where sneakers interacted with his work, from shooting with Michael Jordan in the late 1980s to helping push athletic footwear to a new space in the wardrobe of the modern man. Moore also discusses his interactions in the past decade with more streetwear-specific designers like Virgil Abloh, Ronnie Fieg, and Kanye West. Also, the co-hosts discuss sneaker cleaning tips, Welty steps in dog feces, and Joe gets honest about his screen time.

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0:00.0

What's up, everybody? It's Joe LaPouma. You were listening. You were watching the Complex

0:06.2

sneakers podcast. I am joined as always to my right, Mr. Matt Welty. Here we are. And

0:12.2

to my left, taking another trip today. So we got it. We got to keep this tight. We

0:17.6

headed to keep it tight. Do you want to tell? It's not a vacation. What's your rule on?

0:22.0

If it's not a vacation, do you let people know? Yeah, I'm happy to talk about it. I'm

0:24.5

going to LA for a couple days for a Reebok event. There he is, Mr. Brendan Dunn. Yeah, I'll

0:28.5

be back. I'll be back soon enough for another full size run shoot, more shoots, more stuff

0:32.6

to publish. We're staying busy, gentlemen. You dropped a little Easter egg in last episode

0:37.2

and people figured it out pretty quickly. You saw the comments on our podcast. I was actually

0:41.5

a little bit confused as to how people know. And we can say the name now because that episode

0:44.8

will be out. Larry June is on full size running. People were in our Twitter mentions, you

0:49.6

know, dropping the orange emojis. I think maybe he had posted on like IG story or something

0:55.4

that day during the shoot because there were quite a few people who some reason already

0:59.7

knew. I love how in tune audiences, they seem very excited about it, searching out for

1:05.1

every single clue. Glad about that. We got the John Q sack of New York sitting to my

1:11.1

left. Me? Yeah. Wait, where did this come from? I know exactly Yankees might be Mets. He's

1:20.6

referencing the John Q sack bar stool sports beef where the guy pull up on him and called

1:25.9

him out for the Cubs fan at the socks game. And wealthy is noting that you, Joe LaPouma,

1:30.5

New York fan. Supposed to die hard, Mets fan as we set on this program a couple of times,

1:34.5

but maybe seen wearing a Yankees fit at the time of the time. How long did you keep that

1:38.8

joke in? I was, you know, we're one and a half and a half and a half and that was like,

1:45.1

you know when you go into something and you have like two things on your mind that you're

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