ipath reboot

[apport]

let’s discuss (if it’s even real) how bad this will be
hashtag zumiez and tagging hypebeast and complex is nearing the level of announcing axion with a lookbook featuring nick merlino and sierra fellers

[Gray Imp Sausage Metal]

I would love to be proven wrong … but this will suck!

[SquintinTarantino]

Are there any skaters hippie enough, besides maybe Evan Smith, that would fit the Ipath aesthetic of old?

Would be rad if this didn't suck. I had multiple pairs of the hemp Crickets back in the day.  They were a great skate shoe.

[adumb]

Once a week this dude I work with says with his subtle southern drawl, "Man, when're they gonna do an Ipath re-boot?"

Well, Kenneth, maybe....just maybe

[rawbertson.]

+10 charisma
-10 dexterity

[Bill Salt]

I ain't no hippie and never has been, however, those black grasshopers were dope.Outsole was a bit shitty though...

[FROTHY]

Are there any skaters hippie enough, besides maybe Evan Smith, that would fit the Ipath aesthetic of old?

Would be rad if this didn't suck. I had multiple pairs of the hemp Crickets back in the day.  They were a great skate shoe.

Ipath can either go with their Fred Gall Bobby Puleo vibe or the Rastafarian Halloween wig vibe. A true Jekyll and Hyde. I fear the corporate blood lust for Rasta hemp, rather than the thought of re-immersion into the underground/core skate scene they once successfully inhabited, may be the impetus for 2-Path.

[Lou Strux]

Ipath can either go with their Fred Gall Bobby Puleo vibe or the Rastafarian Halloween wig vibe. A true Jekyll and Hyde. I fear the corporate blood lust for Rasta hemp, rather than the thought of re-immersion into the underground/core skate scene they once successfully inhabited, may be the impetus for 2-Path.

2-Paths diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not skate them both...

[Septa Bus]

Sizzla hear mi wen I tell ya mi nah wan nah ipath reboot

[Tom Pearl]

qit buying nikes and support them and maybe it wont be bad

[ejazzle]

The white trustafarian with dreads movment has really taken off the last few years so they might actually have a good amount of support. Especially considering the 5-8% their parents investment funds have been kicking off these last couple years. Jah bless the jobless

[Shrinedescender]

My mind hungers for Fred Gall and white rasta iPath, but my heart craves John Igei iPath

[apport]

i just want floridian dirtbag ipath

[GrayCellGreen]

The white trustafarian with dreads movment has really taken off the last few years so they might actually have a good amount of support. Especially considering the 5-8% their parents investment funds have been kicking off these last couple years. Jah bless the jobless

Reminds me of this video

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/dXAk_EcFzaw?feature=share

[theloniousmonk]

i just want floridian dirtbag ipath

This

[Shrinedescender]

The white trustafarian with dreads movment has really taken off the last few years so they might actually have a good amount of support. Especially considering the 5-8% their parents investment funds have been kicking off these last couple years. Jah bless the jobless

https://youtu.be/TcK0MYgnHjo?si=bLx6HDdqvRaq8xAn

[augustmoon]

Oh cool, another venture capital money laundering zombie skate shoe brand

[Ricky Vaughn]

+10 charisma
-10 dexterity

hahaha

[Frank and Fred]

Without the Matts and Fred and Kenny, who cares?

[Puddy Smally]

I’m going George Michael on this and maintaining some faith, but only because Ipath was my favorite skate related company of all time.

Quality and materials are gonna be key. The classic designs don’t need any altering.

[TheDingus]

If it ain’t this I don’t want it
https://youtu.be/XFOpO4ErrWQ?si=bEdttTOEgek83XfN

[doomstation55]

Hoping for the best, expecting the worst. Namaste.

[Abyss1]

Without the Matts and Fred and Kenny, who cares?

For real matt pailes was my fav.  Sac town hero also the matt rodriguez loose trucks was my thing to copy for a while

[144p]

It will be a zombie brand, the creatives that made it what it was are gone. The time is different.  Ostalgia can fill some gaps but once we get a peek behind the curtain it’s over. The team will
Be full of young contest/vert groms and a more tech shoe range will emerge. Just let something great stay dead, every incarnation after the og just got a little worse.

[grandslam]

This stuff never works, these over-ambitious revivalists never learn.

[PatrickSkateman]

Probably still owned by Timberland.

[Abyss1]

Probably still owned by Timberland.

"Madison Parker Capital acquired IPath from The Timberland Company. IPath will become a wholly owned subsidiary of Madison Parker's current portfolio company, Klone Lab."

https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/ipath-footwear

[village_idiot]

anyone else mad skeptical of that ig account? lowkey seems fake as hell with those @'s and the zumiez #

[Lou Strux]

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Probably still owned by Timberland.

[close]

"Madison Parker Capital acquired IPath from The Timberland Company. IPath will become a wholly owned subsidiary of Madison Parker's current portfolio company, Klone Lab."

https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/ipath-footwear

That happened back in 2011, though: you reckon these same bouls still own that shiz & have just been sitting on it for over a decade? 
Amusing to me that the the portfolio company would be called Klone Lab & that seems to be what these new owners (whoever that may be) are trying to do.
More accurate branding would probably be Necro Factory or Zombie Farm, but Klone Lab works for me.

[Abyss1]

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Probably still owned by Timberland.

[close]

"Madison Parker Capital acquired IPath from The Timberland Company. IPath will become a wholly owned subsidiary of Madison Parker's current portfolio company, Klone Lab."

https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/ipath-footwear

[close]

That happened back in 2011, though: you reckon these same bouls still own that shiz & have just been sitting on it for over a decade? 
Amusing to me that the the portfolio company would be called Klone Lab & that seems to be what these new owners (whoever that may be) are trying to do.
More accurate branding would probably be Necro Factory or Zombie Farm, but Klone Lab works for me.

I went to the VC site, and yes they are still sitting on it.  It looks like that Klone labs is making new balance pool slides. 
I always found these types of VC acquisitions very confusing, feels like some creepy dude like Gary Vee trying to basically pull a Kendall roy "how dope are these kicks" move.