Gianneli Colours Green and Purple High Top Sneakers

Yellow, green and purple painted across the canvas, printed flat and then cut and hand-stitched into a high top. Purple and yellow are the strongest contrast pair in the whole range, and the green between them is what keeps that from reading as a costume: it bridges the two rather than letting them collide.

Why The Green Matters More Than It Looks

• It stops a clash becoming a costume. Purple against yellow with nothing between them is fancy dress; the green mediates and the pair reads as a design instead.
• The colour lives in the fabric. Sublimation dyes the fibre rather than coating it, so there is no printed layer to crack along the toe crease or the ankle bend.
• The most exposed panel is capped. Faux leather covers the first place canvas gives way, so scuffs land there instead of on the artwork.

Underfoot And Around The Ankle

A 100% polyester canvas upper on an EVA rubber outsole. EVA is foamed rather than solid rubber, so it absorbs the step and bends with the foot at a fraction of the weight a vulcanized sole would add. The collar is cushioned the whole way round, which is the single detail that decides whether a high top is comfortable past the second hour. Breathable lining, soft insole, and lacing that runs to the top so the fit is set by you rather than by the shoe.

Cleaning A Print You Cannot Repaint

A damp cloth and a little soap is the whole routine. Keep the pair out of the washing machine. The print would survive it; the adhesive holding a hand-built sole would not.

The box will smell of glue when you open it. That is what hand assembly smells like. Leave the pair out in open air and it goes within a few days.

One Accessory Ties It Together

This is a high-contrast shoe, so the outfit above it should not compete. Black, white, grey and indigo denim all work. Purple in particular pulls out any purple, plum or berry tone elsewhere in the outfit, so a single matching accessory ties the whole thing together without repeating the print.

Violet Or Plum, And What Yellow Costs

Is the purple dark or bright? Bright, and it sits closer to violet than to plum. That is why it holds its own against the yellow instead of disappearing next to it, and it is also why this pair reads as a statement rather than a neutral.

Does yellow on canvas show dirt more than other colours? Yes, the pale areas mark sooner than the dark ones, as they would on any canvas shoe. Cleaning a mark off the same day it happens is what keeps the yellow bright, and the capped toe already removes the most exposed spot.

Will the pattern line up across both shoes? No. The artwork is printed on one continuous panel and cut afterwards, so each shoe takes a different part of the painting. They are made as a pair, not as mirror images.

Size Guide

Stand on a sheet of paper and measure heel to longest toe, then match the length below rather than ordering your usual number. Foot length is rounded to the nearest quarter inch, so some neighboring half sizes read the same. If you fall between two, take the larger.