GQ's Jim Moore on Collaborating With Virgil Abloh & Kanye | The Complex Sneakers Podcast

The Complex Sneakers Podcast is co-hosted by Joe La Puma, Brendan Dunne, and Matt Welty. In this week's episode, they are joined by Jim Moore, the legendary GQ creative director who spent four decades at the magazine shaping how men in America dress. Moore talks through his career and points in it where sneakers interacted with his work, from shooting with Michael Jordan in the late 1980s to helping push athletic footwear to a new space in the wardrobe of the modern man. Moore also discusses his interactions in the past decade with more streetwear-specific designers like Virgil Abloh, Ronnie Fieg, and Kanye West. Also, the co-hosts discuss sneaker cleaning tips, Welty steps in dog feces, and Joe gets honest about his screen time. EPISODE CHAPTERS / TIMESTAMPS: 0:00 - Start of episode 06:00 - Brendan talks his weekend trip to Montauk 12:17 - Joe talks his phone screen time and the guys try and guess what it is 20:00 - Welty talk cleaning sneakers back in the day 25:00 - Beginning of interview with Jim Moore 33:00 - Jim Moore talks what sneakers he was wearing back in the day and his first impression when Nike came on the market 40:00 - Jim Moore talks hating 80s fashion and putting t shirts/sneakers with suits on photoshoots 48:00 - The guys talk men's fashion and GQ 55:00 - JIm Moore talks Junya Wantanabe doing collabs before Ronnie Fieg 1:03:-00 - Jim Moore talks doing photoshoot with Kanye that was referenced by a photoshoot with Drake that he had done 1:10:00 - Jim Mo