Jon Buscemi, who had worked at Oliver Peoples and co-founded the sneaker label Gourmet, launched Buscemi at the Capsule trade show in Paris in June 2013. Its first shoe, the 100MM high-top, came in full-grain leather with 18-carat gold-plated hardware and a padlock at the ankle, in a first run of 600 pairs, and a name-check from 2 Chainz made it a talking point of the luxury sneaker boom.
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