Sneakerplay: The AF1 Playoffs

It's fair to say that we at Team Cool Hunting havn't gone for the whole Nike Air Force 1 anniversary in a huge way, but this collaboration between Nike iD and our favorite social networking site for sneakerheads could change all that. Starting 6 March 2007, Sneakerplay members will be able to design their own AF1's on Nike iD and then have their handiwork voted …

Paula Ferber Shoes

Looking deceptively innocent among the other fashions at Surface To Air's new São Paulo boutique, the Brazilian designer Paula Ferber's flats appear to be a girlish shoe with just the right amount of au courant glam metallics. Looking more closely, they are in fact De Sade-worthy scenes of orgies, hand-cuffs and other sex toys. For more images of the subversive shoes, go here.

New Zenith El Primero Chronographs

Black is the new black with the all-black titanium limited edition (100 models) Zenith Defy Xtreme Open Stealth Chronograph (pictured left). An El Primero (a famously advanced automatic movement developed in 1969), it features the latest caliber 4021SX automatic movement from their brand-defining engines. Appearing to have high speed fan blades for chronograph registers, the Stealth version ends up more dangerous-looking than the original Defy …