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where'd the whole Lakai naming their shoes after towns and cities in the UK- well regarding the Manchester, Telford, Essex and Caimbridge.
Waiting for the day Lakai release the Bolton. Or name them after any other shitty towns.
I hadn’t heard of a soccer/football team associated with Telford, so I thought it was a one off - also the UK convention didn’t seem ironclad - socas and staples and trudgers always seem to be in the mix
It was never meant to be every shoe, but early on a few (or maybe just one?) of the key shoe designers were from/had relations to England, and therefore named many of the Lakai models after towns/cities in the UK: Manchester, Sheffield, Essex, Cardiff, Telford, Brighton, etc.
They've continued the naming trend for nearly all team models over the years. Pro models or pro designed (but not actually the pro's) models often got a non-UK name, though: The Atlantic (Vincent), Trudger (Simon), MJ-1, MJ-2, MJ-3, Carrol 1-5, Carrol Select, MJ 2 Select, etc.