アンダーグラウンドのインスタグラム(resul80k2) - 11月22日 22時29分

As we mark 30 years of the Originals collection we share that with some of our "fans" around the world. They each have their own reason for giving our #Originals an uptick or two. Follow us over the week as we head towards our collaboration launch on Thursday. We like the work of emerging designer @philipjellis and finding out that he was a wearer of the Originals back in Manchester made us happy. Here's what Philip had to say about Underground:
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?? #philipellis: "I grew up in a small village on the western edge of the Peak District and by the time I was fourteen, I was spending every weekend with my friends/ collective of regional misfits in Manchester’s city center- predominantly in the northern quarter.

I must have been fifteen when I first saw pair of creepers in Ryan’s (a now defunct second-hand superstore) and had a compulsion to own a pair. Before that moment I had only ever seen them in music videos or online. I vividly remember my best friend scoffing at them and telling me how hideous they were and how she wouldn’t be seen with me in public if I bought a pair.

The only place you could buy creepers in Manchester at the time was Rockers- a small rockabilly boutique on Oldham Street. I saved up and just after my sixteenth birthday bought my first pair of creepers. I bought the single sole wulfrun in black suede. I have quite narrow feet and foolishly decided to take a pair two sizes too small and completely crushed my toes when breaking that first pair in. I loved the shoes and religiously wore them every day for at least three years.

You can imagine what state they’re in now.

By the time I was started my art foundation after college I was wearing the double soled classics in stiff black shiny leather. My hair was optic white and everything I wore was ludicrously tight and black, so the elderly population of my village must of thought I looked ridiculous in my massive shoes.

I still have a strong affinity for creepers and underground. I think the shoes are classic and want to start wearing them again- I think I would benefit from the extra inch of height."

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