The big athletic shoe companies are starting to sit up and take notice of the uptick in popularity of sneakers among females. Reebok joins the party with the Chi-Kaze (pronounced “she-kaze”), a female version of its Kamikaze III, launched earlier this year in collaboration with Swizz Beatz.  Available at Journey’s in December.

You’re looking at the grey colorway here and on the next page there are more angles of the same shoe, plus a black and pink version.

This whole trend of icnoic rock bands as a hot fashion graphic flew right by me and I didn’t even realize its existence until my vist to Magic in August. It still has me confused to be honest, but okay. Are people that fed up with rap music or is it just the yearning for days of hedonism gone by? Looking back with longing at the years when people were getting laid on the reg and folks got sloppy in bars rather than wrapped further tight in Starbucks? No idea, but I do think these Chucks riffing on sexy motherfather Jim Morrison are cute:

There’s more rock bands in the collection, including Grateful Dead, Black Sabbath, The Who, Ozzy and Pink Floyd, which you can all buy at Journeys in November.

There’s a pair of lows from the same series on the other side that I like even more…

Samia posted about these a while ago. Just now she was saying she’s want a pair of these real, real bad:

^^Nike Terminator Hi Supreme now selling @ Purchaze. I cannot lie. They do reside in the City of Slickness.

A lot of the big dogs were at Compass, including Converse, New Balance, and Reebok. Converse (natch) wouldn’t let me photograph, NB didn’t appear to have anything for the ladies, but Reebok had plenty and mostly it was high and colorful. Here’s a sampling:

^^ Reebok Freestyle candy stripes in four delicioso flavours!

A hightop flip-down after the jump…..