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Re: "Last Resort AB" Pontus Alv on making (skate?) shoes
« Reply #300 on: April 04, 2020, 10:08:45 AM »
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Re: "Last Resort AB" Pontus Alv on making (skate?) shoes
« Reply #302 on: June 26, 2020, 08:39:16 AM »
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Re: "Last Resort AB" Pontus Alv on making (skate?) shoes
« Reply #303 on: June 26, 2020, 09:39:05 AM »
New interview with pAlv

https://blog.slamcity.com/catch-up-with-pontus-alv/

Highlight : a whole paragraph about skinny pants being absolutely disgusting.
New Polar video next year
I don't really like "boosted ego" Pontus but this was a cool read

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Re: "Last Resort AB" Pontus Alv on making (skate?) shoes
« Reply #304 on: July 07, 2020, 12:48:31 PM »
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Highlight : a whole paragraph about skinny pants being absolutely disgusting.
New Polar video next year
I don't really like "boosted ego" Pontus but this was a cool read

+First Last Resort AB shoe will drop in september, low top.

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Re: "Last Resort AB" Pontus Alv on making (skate?) shoes
« Reply #305 on: July 07, 2020, 03:19:47 PM »
And he’s 100% right about skinny pants being disgusting. But I think everyone already knew that.
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« Reply #306 on: July 07, 2020, 03:35:19 PM »
Man, I was making big boy pants in the early 90's during the first wave - judging by this interview I could make bank if I got back at it.

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Re: "Last Resort AB" Pontus Alv on making (skate?) shoes
« Reply #307 on: September 03, 2020, 04:25:23 AM »
I didn't really care much about these shoes from what I saw online but yesterday Pontus was chillin in a black/white pair as Hjalte was getting clips and they looked good as hell. Def gonna try a pair when they come out.

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« Reply #308 on: September 03, 2020, 06:19:32 AM »
And he’s 100% right about skinny pants being disgusting. But I think everyone already knew that.

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Re: "Last Resort AB" Pontus Alv on making (skate?) shoes
« Reply #309 on: September 03, 2020, 06:23:12 AM »
I dunno if its been talked about on here but i saw high top mockups somewhere and they are really solid looking, Im really stoked for this brand to drop

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Re: "Last Resort AB" Pontus Alv on making (skate?) shoes
« Reply #310 on: September 03, 2020, 07:41:00 AM »
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And he’s 100% right about skinny pants being disgusting. But I think everyone already knew that.
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Re: "Last Resort AB" Pontus Alv on making (skate?) shoes
« Reply #311 on: September 03, 2020, 08:19:22 AM »
Both Keen and Keen USA had pics on their insta showing all the boxes of shoes arriving.
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Re: "Last Resort AB" Pontus Alv on making (skate?) shoes
« Reply #312 on: September 03, 2020, 08:50:00 PM »
So they are 99% the one star cc’s?

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« Reply #313 on: September 05, 2020, 12:26:49 PM »
yes, those are the ones I saw

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Re: "Last Resort AB" Pontus Alv on making skate shoes
« Reply #314 on: September 14, 2020, 01:58:55 AM »
Bad news: the shoes will not be made in Portugal as expected but in Vietnam assuming the boxes pictures shown on Instagram.

The Euro-made skate shoes dream is over, let's hope they will be made in ethical conditions.
I asked about this on their Instagram and they just liked my message...

Anyway, first drop is September 18th with the One Star clone, and hopefully the canvas mid will be in the second drop.
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Re: "Last Resort AB" Pontus Alv on making skate shoes
« Reply #315 on: September 14, 2020, 02:14:37 AM »

Anyway, first drop is September 18th with the One Star clone, and hopefully the canvas mid will be in the second drop.

The first mids will all be suede. They're out in December. Four colorways of the mid along with three new colorways of the low to go with the three coming this week. Canvas shoes are coming next year.

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Re: "Last Resort AB" Pontus Alv on making skate shoes
« Reply #316 on: September 14, 2020, 05:37:16 AM »
Bad news: the shoes will not be made in Portugal as expected but in Vietnam assuming the boxes pictures shown on Instagram.

The Euro-made skate shoes dream is over, let's hope they will be made in ethical conditions.
I asked about this on their Instagram and they just liked my message...

Anyway, first drop is September 18th with the One Star clone, and hopefully the canvas mid will be in the second drop.

They posted somewhere that the price is 85$, immediately I thought it was impossible to be made in Europe. I'm disappointed because I wanted something with less impact on the environment.

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Re: "Last Resort AB" Pontus Alv on making skate shoes
« Reply #317 on: September 14, 2020, 05:59:59 AM »
I wish they’d make a Vans Chukka style shoe, seeing that Vans never makes them anymore.
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Re: "Last Resort AB" Pontus Alv on making skate shoes
« Reply #318 on: September 14, 2020, 06:01:39 AM »
Made in Europe skate shoe would have been special. Vietnam generally has a good reputation for manufacturing, but doesn't exactly have the same lux vibe.

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Re: "Last Resort AB" Pontus Alv on making skate shoes
« Reply #319 on: September 14, 2020, 06:20:47 AM »
As long as they don’t use slave labor.

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Re: "Last Resort AB" Pontus Alv on making skate shoes
« Reply #320 on: September 14, 2020, 07:41:01 AM »
Pontus is my favorite dude ever in skateboarding but I've got zero interest in these things.
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Re: "Last Resort AB" Pontus Alv on making skate shoes
« Reply #321 on: September 14, 2020, 07:59:42 AM »
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Anyway, first drop is September 18th with the One Star clone, and hopefully the canvas mid will be in the second drop.
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The first mids will all be suede. They're out in December. Four colorways of the mid along with three new colorways of the low to go with the three coming this week. Canvas shoes are coming next year.


Very interested in the mids, where can we see a sneak peak?
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Re: "Last Resort AB" Pontus Alv on making skate shoes
« Reply #322 on: September 14, 2020, 08:03:20 AM »
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Anyway, first drop is September 18th with the One Star clone, and hopefully the canvas mid will be in the second drop.
[close]

The first mids will all be suede. They're out in December. Four colorways of the mid along with three new colorways of the low to go with the three coming this week. Canvas shoes are coming next year.
[close]


Very interested in the mids, where can we see a sneak peak?

Pontus has been posting pics on the LastResortAB Instagram along with his personal and the polar accounts
They’re usually on the story though but check the page once a day and you’ll usually get a peak
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Re: "Last Resort AB" Pontus Alv on making skate shoes
« Reply #323 on: September 14, 2020, 08:18:59 AM »
As long as they don’t use slave labor.

He showed the first batch of shoes and I don't remember the exact price, but they were in the ballpark of $200, right? Those were made in Portugal with what we hopefully can assume is not slave labor, or even, terrible working conditions, but it's still industrial "mass" production so who knows.

People (skateboarders) were outraged and said, things like "maybe if they were $85 or less I might buy them"...

Pontus Alv, perhaps with some of his naiveté burned away by the internet, went back to the ol' drawing board and said "shit, I need to make these under $85 or nobody will buy them.". He found a factory in Vietnam to produce them for the price he needed. Did he visit this factory to make sure working conditions were OK? What are the salaries of the employees of that factory? Who knows? Maybe we will never know.

He tried to make a european produced skate shoe. People complained about the price. Now we have another sneaker produced in Vietnam. Hopefully there will be some kind of press release about how great and ethical this particular Vietnamese factory is, but Vietnam does not have the best track record in this regard.

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Re: "Last Resort AB" Pontus Alv on making skate shoes
« Reply #324 on: September 14, 2020, 08:51:03 AM »
I'm pretty sure the skate line was never supposed to be 200$ portugese made.

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Re: "Last Resort AB" Pontus Alv on making skate shoes
« Reply #325 on: September 14, 2020, 04:52:06 PM »
a little bummed they aren't made in eu, that is not to say they will be bad. would have been cool to be able to buy a sweatshop free skateshoe. more info on the factory would be sick. that was a big incentive for me to be excited about them. the shoes themselves are alright, but i'm not super crazy about them.

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Re: "Last Resort AB" Pontus Alv on making skate shoes
« Reply #326 on: September 14, 2020, 05:01:30 PM »
I don’t think you can make vulcanized shoes ethically

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Re: "Last Resort AB" Pontus Alv on making skate shoes
« Reply #327 on: September 14, 2020, 05:09:49 PM »
I don’t think you can make vulcanized shoes ethically

Right isn't the glue used illegal in the US because it's so toxic?

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Re: "Last Resort AB" Pontus Alv on making skate shoes
« Reply #328 on: September 14, 2020, 05:11:14 PM »
I don’t think you can make vulcanized shoes ethically

yeah, maybe. don't know about the process tbh, but i could imagine that.

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Re: "Last Resort AB" Pontus Alv on making skate shoes
« Reply #329 on: September 14, 2020, 05:23:28 PM »
Veja makes a campus lookalike. french company, shoes made in brazil, front like their ethical, kinda corny, $150 for the cup, $140 for a vulc. that's what your looking at for some limited DCs or something (though no one buys those its all flow kids but you know what i mean)
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