Chauffeur (Mark Ronson, Theophilus London, & Sam Sparro) premiere their new song “Soles of Fire” – which is a track cooked up for the release of Ronson’s own shoes at the Gucci Icon-Temporary pop-up store – for free download at FADER. (Right click, Save As..)

After reporting about the new Gucci Icon-Temporary initiative a while back, we can finally give you some more detailed information, along with more views at the footwear that will go on sale. Gucci’s Frida Giannini worked with Mark Ronson on this flash sneaker store concept that will be taking off in October 2009.

Together with Mark Ronson, Gucci worked on limited edition Gucci Ronson sneakers. At each destination of the flash sneaker store a new Gucci Ronson sneaker will be introduced, in addition to 18 sneaker styles in the Gucci Icon-Temporary sneaker collection. The collection overall consists of 16 men’s styles and 2 women’s styles, with each sneaker coming with a special Gucci silver or gold metal dog tag. Customers initials can be engraved onto customized leather tags on the laces. Also the packaging has been designed specifically for each city of the tour. On top of the special make-up and packaging, each Gucci Ronson sneaker will come with a 12-inch vinyl record with tracks selected by Mark Ronson.

The first Gucci Icon-Temporary store will debut at Crosby Street in New York City on October 23rd, with Frida Giannini and Mark Ronson attending the kick-off party. The store will open to the public on October 24th and will stay open for 2 weeks. In December the temporary space will move to Miami to coincide with Art Basel Miami and Design Miami and in 2010 the pop-up store will come to London and Tokyo.

More images of the limited edition Gucci Icon Temporary Footwear follow here.

Gucci is planning to open flash sneaker stores in the coming months.

“Gucci Icon-Temporary is that method. The flash sneaker store will touch down in six or seven locations around the world where tastemakers gather, such as Art Basil Miami Beach, staying open for two or three weeks in each spot. The first stop on the tour will be Crosby Street in SoHo on Oct. 23. Other stops will include London, Berlin, Paris, Hong Kong and Tokyo.

Gucci Icon-Temporary units will feature 18 exclusive sneaker styles — 16 for men and two for women. Incorporating classic Gucci design elements such as the GG logo and a stylized version of the Gucci red-and-green web detail, each shoe has an embroidered “Limited Edition” label inside and a silver or gold metal dog tag hanging from the laces. Leather tags on shoe laces can be customized and embossed with a shopper’s initials.”

Not only will the stores feature limited edition footwear, they will also introduce a collaboration sneaker with DJ and music producer Mark Ronson.

“A new Gucci Ronson version will be introduced at every leg of the itinerant project. Icon-Temporary sneakers are priced from $500 to $1,400, and Gucci Ronson shoes, $500 to $600.”

Once the stores start opening, we will be able to give you a closer look. After the jump you can check out a mock-up of the pop-up store and further looks of the Gucci x Mark Ronson sneakers.

A nice and solid new Gucci High Top Sneaker has been released. The sneaker features a premium brown suede upper, matching brown leather laces and overall subtle branding. If it was up to us, we would even have skipped the G pattern on the lining, but that is just minor. All in all the sneaker looks good and makes sense for the brand, more than some of their other recent footwear releases. The high top is now available from Concepts.

More detailed images of the Gucci High Top follow after the jump.

The Cobrasnake is touring again and as usual he manages to show up at the place to be. On June 1rst a big Gucci event went down in Tokyo and it sure looked like a lot of fun. Lots of familiar faces were at the party, including Mademoiselle Yulia, Huge Magazine crew, Gucci head designers and Verbal was spinning the decks for the night.

Take a look at many more pics by the Cobrasnake from the Gucci Tokyo event after the jump.

In the last couple of weeks all major fashion shows took place around the globe. Massimo Gammacurta came up with the perfect accessory to attending the shows – fashion brand lollipops. He created them with the Louis Vuitton, Gucci, Chanel and YSL logos in a series of different flavors.

Take a look at the other lollipops after the jump.

Gucci once again got inspired by similar sources than Visvim this season and releases their high top flap sneaker in two new colorways as part of their Spring/Summer 2009 Collection. The sneaker comes in yellow and in red and be worn both with and without the flap. Via Concepts.

More detailed images of both Gucci Spring 2009 Sneakers follow after the jump.

Not for the first time Diamond Supply Co. teams up with DVS Shoes (see here forthe previous collaboration ). Today we give you a first look at the upcoming work they did on the Dayton. It comes in the "Gucci" colors. The upper features perforated leather as well as premium leathers and suede. The tongue features a Diamond Supply Co. logo tag. The Diamond logo also appears on a rubber tag on the heel.
According to CtotheJL these will be coming out in the near future as part of a pack, that also includes a New Era cap and a jacket. 
Check out more images after the jump.

Here you see one of the latest Nike Court Force Lo’s to be released in Japan. Previously we have already shown you a couple that were inspired by Air Max’s. This Court Force is inspired by the Air Max 93 and this features the same kind of mesh side panels, swoosh and toe box.
These are now available at Shoe Planet, along with some Gucci inspired Court Forces, that you can check out after the jump.