Gianneli Colours Yellow and Red High Top Canvas Sneakers

Yellow and red strokes running up the canvas like flame, printed flat and then cut and hand-stitched. The strokes on this pair are vertical rather than scattered, and that direction does something the other prints in the range do not: an upward line lengthens the foot visually, where a horizontal or all-over pattern makes it look shorter and wider.

Direction Changes The Shape Of The Foot

• Vertical lines lengthen. The eye follows the stroke up the shoe rather than across it, the same reason a vertical stripe lengthens anything else it is printed on.
• The colour cannot split at the crease. Sublimation dyes the fabric rather than coating it, so there is no surface film to crack at the toe or along the ankle bend.
• The toe is armoured. A faux leather cap takes the kerb and doorframe damage that would otherwise land on printed canvas.

Foam Underfoot, Padding At The Collar

A 100% polyester canvas upper on an EVA rubber outsole. EVA is a foamed rubber rather than a solid one: it cushions each step and bends with the foot while keeping the pair light, where a vulcanized sole would add stiffness and weight for no benefit here. Padding runs the full way round the collar, which is what makes a high top wearable past the point most of them start rubbing. Breathable lining and a soft insole, with lacing running to the top so the fit is set at the ankle rather than only at the instep.

Soap And A Cloth, Nothing Else

Damp cloth, a little soap, and the canvas comes clean. Keep the pair out of the washing machine. The print would be fine; the bonded sole on a hand-assembled shoe would not.

A glue smell when the box is opened is normal. It is what hand assembly leaves behind, it is not a defect, and it clears in a few days with the pair left out in the air.

Keep The Rest Of The Outfit Cool

Red and yellow together read as warm and high energy, so the outfit above should stay cool or neutral to balance it. Indigo denim, black, white and grey all work. Adding another warm colour on top stacks heat on heat and the shoe stops standing out.

Scarlet Or Burgundy, And Does The Line Trick Work

Is the red closer to scarlet or to burgundy? Scarlet. It is a clean warm red rather than a deep or bluish one, which is why it works next to the yellow instead of muddying against it.

Does the vertical print really change how the foot looks? It changes how it reads. Lines that run up the shoe draw the eye along the length of the foot rather than across it, which is the same reason a vertical stripe lengthens anything else it is printed on.

Will both shoes show the same flames? No. The artwork is printed over one continuous panel and cut afterwards, so each shoe takes a different run of strokes. The pair matches in character rather than in detail.

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.