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The Complex Sneakers Podcast

Paul Mittleman on Making Sneaker History With Stussy, Adidas, and Converse

The Complex Sneakers Podcast

Complex

Society & Culture

4.81.3K Ratings

🗓️ 26 March 2021

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Summary

The Complex Sneakers Podcast is co-hosted by Joe La Puma, Brendan Dunne and Matt Welty. This week the guys speak to Paul Mittleman to discuss his work and mark at brands like Stussy, Adidas and Converse. Paul discusses what it was like being the Creative Director of Stussy at their early stages as well as what it was like working with Pharrell Williams, Kanye West, Nigo and Tyler The Creator.

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0:00.0

What's up, everybody? It's Joel Alpuma. You were listening to the Complex sneakers podcast.

0:05.8

As always, I'm with my guys, Mr. Matt Welty. Here we are today. Yes. A lot of energy from

0:10.8

you. I know this. You're excited about this one. Oh, okay. Take a swig. Get the energy

0:15.4

up. Keep the energy up. And of course, my man, he has, what do you have a purple crew

0:19.5

neck on? This is an SNS fleece. Okay. SNS fleece. Smiling ear to ear. As always, Mr.

0:26.6

Brendan done. How are you, buddy? I got to admit, I don't have a lot to smile about. Why?

0:31.4

What happened now? I'm down bad, you guys. No, you're not. We're not going to, no, you're

0:35.9

not. You're, you're up. If we are talking about something that we're going to get into

0:40.1

very soon, the three of us, you're the only one who's up in, but go ahead. What do you,

0:45.0

what do you do? Can we, can we talk March madness? Wait, down bad in gambling or down the

0:50.6

team? The school I went to the University of Oregon is doing well. Yes. I got a virtual

0:55.0

buy in their first round. And they, they got to ask for a second round. But, but in the

1:00.8

gambling aspect, did you guys think Gonzaga was going to cover 33 points, Fred? I don't

1:05.0

know anything. That's a lot. I don't know about. I'm very, I never, that's way too much

1:09.7

for March madness. You know, I only gambled in college on, on a basketball game and like,

1:15.4

you were point saving Joe? No, no, not, you knew somebody else. No, not you, Con. And I, I,

1:20.1

I put a bet in because like friends were doing it. I had no idea what I was doing. And

1:23.9

then I lost money. And I remember like, I was going around collecting cans to like make

1:29.0

up the debt. It wasn't even that much. I just like, it was like, oh, man, I'm not coming

1:32.9

out of pocket for this gambling debt. So I like cashed in cans and like, you know, went

1:37.0

to coin store and stuff like that. And after that, that was like my, how many cans, how

1:41.2

many cans? You know, that they have like beer cans in the lobby of every dorm. So, oh,

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