発売日:3月31日(土)10:00日本のストリートファッションのメッカである原宿に二つの店舗を構え、日本のスニーカー文化を原宿から世界へ発信するプレミアム・スニーカーブティック<KICKS LAB.>と、60年以上の歴史を持つ日本が世界に誇るスニーカーブランド<ASICS Tiger>とのコラボレーションによって誕生したスペシャルモデル<ASICS Tiger GEL-LYTE III “KLSHINOBI”>。“KLSHINOBI”というモデル名の通り、“忍”(しのび)をテーマに「もし忍者がスニーカーを履いていたら?」という裏ストーリーのもと、デザインコンセプトを展開。スウェードをベースにしながら、一部で大きめのメッシュを使用するなど様々な素材を組み合わせ、カラーリングはブラック、グレー、ホワイトといったモノトーンでコーディネイトし、落ち着いた中にもシャープな印象を与えるデザインに仕上がっています。また、インソールとアウトソールには“忍”(しのび)というテーマにちなんだ熟語をプリント。これらの熟語には<KICKS LAB.>が発案した造語も多数含まれていて、暗号を使っていたとも言われる忍者の独特なカルチャーを連想させる内容にもなっています。まさに<ASICS>と<KICKS LAB.>という日本のスニーカーシーンを代表する両者のこだわりが詰まったスペシャルモデルです。ATTENTIONThe products of Asics Tiger and Onituska Tiger are not eligible to ship outside Japan due to manufacturer's requirement.“KICK LAB.”, 2 shops are located in Harajuku Tokyo, the center of Japanese street fashion, who keeps developing the Japanese sneaker culture to the world. “AISCS”, a world famous athletic brand which has more than 60 years of history. These two get together and are going to release a special model, ASICS Tiger GEL-LYTE III “KLSHINOBI”.“GEL-LYTE” series were originally born in 1987 as high performance running sneakers. These days they are becoming more and more popular among sneaker lovers. KICKS LAB. and ASICS tiger have been developed collaboration sneakers these days and they quickly sold out for their excellent color blocking and the design. For example they launched ASICS Tiger GEL-LYTE V “PHYS ED” collaborated with Singaporean sneaker customizer “SBTG” in 2015 and they launched ASICS Tiger GEL-LYTE III “HIKESHI” collaborated with “sneakerwolf “ in 2016.The design concept for ASICS Tiger GEL-LYTE III “KLSHINOBI” is Shinobi which is a p caraphrase for “NINJA”. KICKS LAB. developed a story “what if a Ninja wears a pair of sneaker”. Using many kind of materials such as premium suede on the most part of the upper and large-meshed net. This pair features monotone color blocking such as Black, grey and white which is matured yet crispy. On the insoles and the outsoles Japanese idioms related to Ninja are printed. Some of them are developed by KICKS LAB. which reminds us of the unique Ninja culture using secret codes in their daily life. This is surely a very special model of having ASICS and KICKS LAB.’s full of passion.