Earlier this week Bon Iver and the Keep Shoes company thought it would be an excellent idea to collaborate on a pair of shoes. Though this might seem a simple and harmless concept, the truth couldn’t be more different. From this coupling of creative juices was born the hellish, the hideous, ‘ Keep + Bon Iver shoe’. Even the name follows a call-it-what-it-is-formula that points at a true lack of creativity from the powers behind this glob of salmon. That’s probably the biggest crime here though isn’t it. Salmon. It’s not even that I think the colour salmon looks bad (though it does) but the average urban lumberjack/forest nymphette that listens to Bon Iver is going to find their ‘ Keep + Bon Iver shoes’ (really rolls off the tongue) tainted by jungle scum after even the shortest of spiritual treks.

Certainly more attractive and a damn sight more collectible are the pair of  Converse that Bon Iver himself has coloured, signed and made awesome. Look at the pensmanship! The attention to colour! A true visual extravaganza! They’re a part of the In Your Shoes Project that’ll see a whole bunch of Converse coloured by a whole bunch of musical celebrity types (Skrillex, Wombats, Bon Iver etc) auctioned off for charity at the end of the year. See below: