Axel Arigato’s Clean 90 silhouette is like the platonic ideal of minimalist trainer silhouettes – and it makes it the perfect blank canvas for the label’s creative director Max Svärdh to explore some intriguing details. Like, for example, the screen-printed “1,40MM” at the side. Is that 1.4mm, as in approximately the width of a grain of sand? Or is it 140mm, as in 14cm, as in about one-fifth of a footstep? All we know is the shoe is cool.
<li>Axel Arigato leather trainers
<li>Lace-up fastening
<li>Contrast detail at heel, suede toe, contrast lace tips, “1,40MM” text print
<li>Leather upper, rubber sole