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“I GET TO THINK, SKETCH AND TALK ABOUT SHOES ALL DAY. I COULDN’T THINK OF A BETTER THING TO DO!”

OBSESSION comes naturally to Lee Gibson. First, there was architecture, then design, then teaching and, finally, sneakers.

It’s that single-minded focus which has taken the 41-year-old from Wairoa to New York and, for the last five years, to Portland where he holds the

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