We can all rest uncomplicated at night, now that just one of the world’s excellent queries — What would a Lexus IS glimpse like if it ended up a shoe? — has been answered. Lexus has collaborated with streetwear brand name RTFKT to make a sneaker influenced by the 2021 Lexus IS.

The project is aspect of a Lexus campaign identified as “All In” that celebrates persons who are passionate about their craft. For the cynical, you can go through this as a marketing campaign that employs influencers in non-automotive fields to put the IS in front of a new audience and catch the attention of youthful buyers to the Lexus brand.

 

RTFKT phone calls by themselves the 1st sneaker company to spring from the planet of gaming. Their footwear leans towards the fanciful and futuristic types typically identified in video online games, and a brief glance at their internet site presents the sneakers as electronic products of different rarity that you may possibly come across in a match. RTFKT’s innovative director Chris Le stated, “We required to make absolutely sure when the audience appears at the sneaker they quickly know it is the IS.”

We’re not so certain about that, even though. If it were not for the Lexus F Sport brand on the aspect, Lexus badge on the Velcro strap and the product title embossed throughout on the back, we would have a hard time guessing it experienced something to do with a now-472 hp Japanese sports sedan.

RTFKT clarifies that sure style and design aspects impressed by the motor vehicle. The chunky sole in black developed from a tire, for instance. The front of the shoe is explained to be a model of Lexus’s trademark spindle grille (while we are not genuinely seeing it). A 3D-printed carbon fiber-sample “spoiler” on the back of the sneaker gets nearer to the Lexus’s actual decklid wing. 

The sneaker’s sides use the Black NuLuxe product of the car’s interior with light grey stitching from the seats. The middle silver stripe was “motivated by the information of the headlights,” however specified the “L” shape of the “L” DRLs on earlier Lexus IS sedans we are stunned the collab just isn’t with Nike. To be good, the new IS’s DRL integration is a great deal far more pleasurable to look at. And finally, the Grecian H2o blue coloration, one of the signature paints on the new IS, features in the course of the shoe.

“All the intricate style elements arrive together, and at a initial glance it’s a neckbreaker,” explained RTFKT CEO Steven Zaptio. We are almost certainly in no area to remark the veracity of that assertion, but then neither is anyone else. As it turns out, no 1 will at any time wear it, simply because it really is a a person-off that will under no circumstances go on sale.