Sole Mates: Federico Maccapani and the adidas Futurecraft 3D OG

Sole Mates is a new HYPEBEAST series that asks, simply, "why do you love shoes?" Searching for a deeper meaning beyond hype, Sole Mates uncovers each subject's sneaker origin story, letting them wax poetic on why a particular shoe means so much to them.While it's synonymous with luxury fashion, Italy is seldom recognized for its sneaker culture. As such, hyped shoes -- especially ones we sneaker fanatics revere today -- were hard to come for Federico Maccapani growing up in Italy in the '90s and...