Shoe Palace is once again partnering with one of the biggest icons on the planet, Bruce Lee! Shoe Palace has again teamed with the Bruce Lee estate to create an apparel collection that features licensed images of the artist and athlete. This 2024 collection will excite Bruce Lee fans.
This Shoe Palace x Bruce Lee collection features a wide array of styles and apparel pieces. The line includes tees, hoodies, joggers, and more elevated pieces. Every piece of the collection uses the legacy of Bruce Lee as inspiration. The collection features images, art and verbiage tied to Bruce Lee. The Shoe Palace creative team was dedicated to improving on what was accomplished with the last few Bruce Lee collections. This latest collab features embroidered patches, a bomber jacket and more high quality design and construction flourishes.
The Shoe Palace x Bruce Lee collection can only be found at Shoe Palace retail stores and on shoepalace.com. The collection launches November 14.
About Shoe Palace
In 2023 Shoe Palace will be celebrating 30 years of business. The footwear company currently has close to 200 locations across the country and a successful e-commerce website. The retailer is one of the most trusted names in the industry with a list of partners that includes Nike, Jordan Brand, adidas, New Balance and many, many more. Shoe Palace is the realization of a dream its founder, Agob Mersho, believed could only be accomplished in America. His goal from the start was simple, he wanted to provide a better life for his wife and five kids. In 1978, Agob made the bold choice to move his family from their home country of Syria to the United States. It took 15 years of trial and error, but eventually the first Shoe Palace location opened its doors in the Bay Area of California in 1993.
About Bruce Lee
Bruce Jun Fan Lee (Lee Siu Loong) was born in 1940 in San Francisco, CA while his parents were on tour with the Chinese Opera. Ultimately raised in Hong Kong, Bruce Lee was a child actor appearing in more than 20 films. At the age of 13, Bruce took up the study of Wing Chun gung fu under renowned Wing Chun master, Yip Man.
Bruce left Hong Kong at the age of 18, came to the United States and made his way to Seattle, Washington where he worked in the restaurant of a family friend. He soon enrolled in the University of Washington where he pursued a degree in philosophy. Bruce began to teach gung fu in Seattle and soon opened his first school, the Jun Fan Gung Fu Institute. Two more schools followed in Oakland and Los Angeles. Concurrently Bruce married his wife, Linda and had his two children, Brandon and Shannon. In the mid-sixties, Bruce was discovered while doing an exhibition at the Long Beach Internationals and a role as Kato in the tv series The Green Hornet soon followed. During this time, Bruce was also developing his own martial art, which he ultimately named Jeet Kune Do (translated: the way of the intercepting fist).
Bruce's art was steeped in a philosophical foundation and did not follow long held martial traditions. Instead it had at its core the ideas of simplicity, directness and personal freedom. After The Green Hornet series was canceled, Bruce encountered resistance while working in Hollywood
and so headed to Hong Kong to pursue a film career. In Hong Kong he made 3 films, which consecutively broke all box office records and showcased martial arts in an entirely new way. Hollywood took notice and soon Bruce was making the first Hollywood / Hong Kong coproduction with a film called Enter the Dragon. Unfortunately, Bruce Lee died in 1973 before this film was released. This film catapulted him to international fame. Today Bruce Lee’s legacy of self-expression, equality, and pioneering innovation continues to inspire people all around the world.
- Adam C. Better
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