{"id":400869,"date":"2014-08-25T16:00:04","date_gmt":"2014-08-25T21:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.snkrsday.com\/?p=400869"},"modified":"2022-09-12T18:39:33","modified_gmt":"2022-09-12T23:39:33","slug":"andre-agassi-talks-style-sneakers-new-york-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.snkrsday.com\/andre-agassi-talks-style-sneakers-new-york-times\/","title":{"rendered":"Andre Agassi Talks Style &#038; Sneakers with New York Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In his early days, <strong>Andre Agassi<\/strong> was one of the loudest dressers on the tennis court. Paving the way for all the bright colors we see today on the clay and the court, Agassi was a rebel and a trendsetter both in competition and on the foot. Now retired but recently reunited with Nike, Agassi spoke with <strong>The New York Times<\/strong> on his current approach to style and sneakers. Here were some takeaways on the footwear front:<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cHaving these Air Tech Challenges back, I don\u2019t want to get them dirty. Having a new pair of sneakers is like having a great wine at your house: You get it and stare at it and you don\u2019t really think you should drink it. I\u2019m in a constant conflict of wanting to put them on but not wanting to get them dirty.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cI\u2019m in favor of sneakers with suits. I also want to save the female gender from torture with shoes that aren\u2019t comfortable. I favor comfortable shoes for everybody.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>To read the rest of the article and get Andre&#8217;s take on dressing up and wearing neon, visit <a title=\"The New York Times\" href=\"http:\/\/mobile.nytimes.com\/blogs\/tmagazine\/2014\/08\/25\/andre-agassi-us-open-rules-of-style\/?smid=tw-tmagazine\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The New York Times<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Lead image by Jamie McDonald\/Getty Images via <a title=\"Zimbio\" href=\"http:\/\/www.zimbio.com\/photos\/Andre+Agassi\/World+Tennis+Day+London+Showdown\/D9twF52QGWv\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Zimbio<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In his early days, Andre Agassi was one of the loudest dressers on the tennis court. Paving the way for all the bright colors we see today on the clay and the court, Agassi was a rebel and a trendsetter both in competition and on the foot. Now retired but recently reunited with Nike, Agassi spoke with The New York Times on his current approach to style and sneakers. Here were some takeaways on the footwear front:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2415,"featured_media":400901,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1224791],"tags":[1204304],"cultivate_rss":[],"class_list":{"2":"type-post"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v24.0 (Yoast SEO v24.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Andre Agassi Talks Style &amp; Sneakers with New York Times | Snkrs Day<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Andre Agassi spoke with The New York Times about style and sneakers.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.snkrsday.com\/andre-agassi-talks-style-sneakers-new-york-times\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Andre Agassi Talks Style &amp; Sneakers with New York Times\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Andre Agassi spoke with The New York Times about style and sneakers.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.snkrsday.com\/andre-agassi-talks-style-sneakers-new-york-times\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Snkrs Day\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/NiceKicks\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2014-08-25T21:00:04+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2022-09-12T23:39:33+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.snkrsday.com\/files\/2014\/08\/andre-agassi.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"700\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"358\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Ian Stonebrook\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@snkrsday\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@snkrsday\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Ian Stonebrook\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":[\"WebPage\",\"ItemPage\"],\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.snkrsday.com\/andre-agassi-talks-style-sneakers-new-york-times\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.snkrsday.com\/andre-agassi-talks-style-sneakers-new-york-times\/\",\"name\":\"Andre Agassi Talks Style & Sneakers with New York Times | Snkrs Day\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.snkrsday.com\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.snkrsday.com\/andre-agassi-talks-style-sneakers-new-york-times\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.snkrsday.com\/andre-agassi-talks-style-sneakers-new-york-times\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.snkrsday.com\/files\/2014\/08\/andre-agassi.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2014-08-25T21:00:04+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2022-09-12T23:39:33+00:00\",\"description\":\"Andre Agassi spoke with The New York Times about style and sneakers.\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.snkrsday.com\/andre-agassi-talks-style-sneakers-new-york-times\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.snkrsday.com\/andre-agassi-talks-style-sneakers-new-york-times\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.snkrsday.com\/andre-agassi-talks-style-sneakers-new-york-times\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.snkrsday.com\/files\/2014\/08\/andre-agassi.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.snkrsday.com\/files\/2014\/08\/andre-agassi.jpg\",\"width\":700,\"height\":358,\"caption\":\"Andre Agassi Talks Style and Sneakers with New York Times\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.snkrsday.com\/andre-agassi-talks-style-sneakers-new-york-times\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"News\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.snkrsday.com\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Nike\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.snkrsday.com\/nike\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":3,\"name\":\"Andre Agassi Talks Style &#038; Sneakers with New York Times\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.snkrsday.com\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.snkrsday.com\/\",\"name\":\"Snkrs Day\",\"description\":\"Sneakers News. 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