West worked the red carpet in a white Calvin Klein suit and matching canvas sneakers.

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He had a plaid shirt on, and colorful beads woven into the laces of his scuffed, canvas sneakers.

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Barely out of their teens, with canvas sneakers on their feet and little in the way of equipment, they hardly seem equipped to deal with the devastation ahead.

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Michael Greenberg was in college when Robert, who owned a women's apparel shop called L.A. Gear, started importing simple canvas sneakers to tap the aerobics craze in 1983.

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Michael Greenberg was in college when Robert, who owned a women's apparel shop called L.A. Gear, started importing simple canvas sneakers in 1983 to tap the aerobics craze.

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Now, those miniature designs are decorating everything from canvas backpacks and Vans sneakers to windbreakers.

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