What Is Your Favorite Shoe?

Our favorite Portland looks this week.

(Sam Gehrke)
By Sam Gehrke
(Sam Gehrke)

(Left) "I just got these that I'm wearing now, and really like them. They're high top Air Force 1s with Gore-Tex—fully weatherproof for the winter." (Right) "I also just got a new pair—the orange-and-black Air Jordan Retros, and really like those."

(Sam Gehrke)

"Either of the Jordan 6 Infrareds."

(Sam Gehrke)

"Either of the Jordan 6 Infrareds."

(Sam Gehrke)

"Anything Air Max."

(Sam Gehrke)

"The Air Jordan 5s. I just love the 3M accents, the fat tongue and really everything about them."

(Sam Gehrke)

"I wear Chuck Taylors all the time."

(Sam Gehrke)

"The Jordan 1. It's the first Air Jordan I ever owned, and the shoe that kind of woke me up to sneaker culture."

(Sam Gehrke)

"I gotta go with the classics: Chuck Taylors."

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Sam Gehrke

Sam Gehrke

Sam Gehrke is a photographer born in Milwaukee, WI in 1990 and raised in Eugene, OR. He moved to Portland in 2016 to pursue photography, quitting his full time job and diving head first into an independent career. His work has since appeared in Vice Magazine, OPB, The Fader, Vortex Music Magazine and Premier Guitar Magazine.

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