Kith's 15th Anniversary Exhibition Puts Ronnie Fieg's Full 1,849-Pair Archive on Display
SummaryKith is showing all 1,849 collaborative pairs from Ronnie Fieg's footwear archive together in public for the first timeThe pairs are grouped by brand and arranged chronologically, following the index of the new book page by pageThe exhibition runs in Brooklyn in the days leading up to Kith's 15th anniversary and the book's global releaseKith is marking its 15th anniversary with Kith: The Footwear Archive, a new book published by Assouline, and a Brooklyn exhibition that puts Ronnie Fieg's entire collaborative footwear archive on display. From September 25 to September 27, all 1,849 pairs Kith has produced with partner brands over its 15 years will be shown together in public for the first time.Rather than a curated greatest-hits edit, Kith is showing every pair. Each partner brand gets its own section, the releases within it run chronologically, and the sequence follows the book's index exactly. Visitors move through the archive the way a reader moves through the book, so the space works as a physical version of the index as much as a gallery.The book matches that ambition. The Classic edition runs 444 pages, and its index sets the order of every pair in the room. Assouline is best known for large-format coffee-table books on fashion, design and luxury houses, which makes it a natural fit for a catalog of this size. Copies will be for sale at the exhibition before the book's worldwide release.The size of the archive shows how far Fieg's footwear practice has come. Before founding Kith in 2011, he built his name at the New York retailer David Z., where his early ASICS GEL-Lyte III collaborations helped establish him as one of the defining figures of retailer-led sneaker collaboration. 15 years on, those projects have grown into more than 1,800 pairs across a long list of partner brands, and this exhibition is the first time they have all been in one room.Kith: The Footwear Archive Exhibition runs from September 25 to September 27 at 25 Kent Avenue in Brooklyn. The 444-page Classic edition of the book then launches globally on September 30, Kith's anniversary, at all Kith stores, online, and via the Kith App.Click here to view full gallery at Hypebeast
Summary
Kith is showing all 1,849 collaborative pairs from Ronnie Fieg's footwear archive together in public for the first timeThe pairs are grouped by brand and arranged chronologically, following the index of the new book page by pageThe exhibition runs in Brooklyn in the days leading up to Kith's 15th anniversary and the book's global release
Kith is marking its 15th anniversary with Kith: The Footwear Archive, a new book published by Assouline, and a Brooklyn exhibition that puts Ronnie Fieg's entire collaborative footwear archive on display. From September 25 to September 27, all 1,849 pairs Kith has produced with partner brands over its 15 years will be shown together in public for the first time.
Rather than a curated greatest-hits edit, Kith is showing every pair. Each partner brand gets its own section, the releases within it run chronologically, and the sequence follows the book's index exactly. Visitors move through the archive the way a reader moves through the book, so the space works as a physical version of the index as much as a gallery.
The book matches that ambition. The Classic edition runs 444 pages, and its index sets the order of every pair in the room. Assouline is best known for large-format coffee-table books on fashion, design and luxury houses, which makes it a natural fit for a catalog of this size. Copies will be for sale at the exhibition before the book's worldwide release.
The size of the archive shows how far Fieg's footwear practice has come. Before founding Kith in 2011, he built his name at the New York retailer David Z., where his early ASICS GEL-Lyte III collaborations helped establish him as one of the defining figures of retailer-led sneaker collaboration. 15 years on, those projects have grown into more than 1,800 pairs across a long list of partner brands, and this exhibition is the first time they have all been in one room.
Kith: The Footwear Archive Exhibition runs from September 25 to September 27 at 25 Kent Avenue in Brooklyn. The 444-page Classic edition of the book then launches globally on September 30, Kith's anniversary, at all Kith stores, online, and via the Kith App.
