The Reebok Classic Leather Gary Warnett 'Bone Orange' helped celebrate the 30th anniversary of the iconic running silhouette in 2013. Designed by Gary Warnett, a long time British sneaker enthusiast and Hypebeats contributor, with help from Reebok's David Ting, this Reebok Classic Leather is inspired by the criminals that used to wear the silhouette. Without glorifying crime, Warnett drew inspiration from friends of his that were always getting in trouble while wearing them. However, his father owned a tan colored pair, and kingpins all over the world were wearing them -- in Hypebeast Warnett said "Hustlers were the original influencers, weren't they?" The Classic Leather is a staple in the UK, especially with pubgoers, so he added the embroidery on the cotton of this shoe. The arrow motif came from British military prison shoes that had an arrow carved onto the toe as a mark that they (and the wearer) were government property. The arrows also appeared on old prison outfits in the UK and, ironically, the Classic Leather was a footprint left at many crime scenes. The icy outsole the shoe sits atop shoes off the arrows beneath it, and the borstal dot (Borstal was a youth prison pre-1982) on the right shoe's uppermost eyelet echoes the dot that was tattoed between the right thumb and forefinger of inmates. The Reebok Classic Leather Gary Warnett 'Bone Orange' executes its theme masterfully and is considered one of the best collabs to come from the 30th anniversary project.
