This year, Fluevog is celebrating its entry into the historic club of 45. As you can imagine, 45 years of shoe designing, shoemaking and shoe-dreaming makes for quite the storied little past. We’re thinking we’ll pass on the mid-life crisis thing and look back at the good times by the numbers instead…
19 Fluevog stores open for business (soon to be 20… shhhhh).
2,705,177 pairs of shoes sold at time of print.
Over 400 shoe families birthed by John and the Fluevog design team.
708,396 hours and counting that Fluevog stores have been open for business.
74 different countries that officially celebrate International Fluevog Day (May 15).
1 state that declared Fluevog Day a state holiday.
1,545 Open Source Footwear submissions received.
15 Open Source Designs brought to fruition.
2,634 pairs of Fluevogs resold on the FlueMarket, a place where gently worn Fluevogs find new homes on new feet all over the Fluniverse (or maybe just on Earth).
14 clever puns exchanged with Courtney Taylor-Taylor during the design of The Dandy Warhol Boots.
1 Milleniums survived following months of anticipation and anxiety over whether or not the next collection would see the light of day after y2k.
1,784 times Jack White has tapped his feet while performing in our signature Jack Boots all over the globe.
1 pair of Munsters worn by Lady Miss Kier on the cover of Deee-lite’s debut album, World Clique.
5 golden life tips offered by Whoopi Goldberg to the NYC Fluevogologists.
16 gratified smirks from Alice Cooper over his favo(u)rite pair of Swordfish boots.
6 times Kit Harington enjoyed hearing Fluevogologists tell him “You know nothing, Jon Snow!” while he picked out his Brandenburgs. (He’s a good sport.)
2 heart-pumping cliffhangers director Robert Altman left us on in between picking out his choice ’Vogs.
21 understated grins and subsequent warm greetings elicited from Robin Williams during various store visits.
1 pair of black Munsters worn by Madonna in Truth or Dare.
38 FluevogCreative artists featured.
Over 300 pairs make up the largest collection of Fluevogs by a single person that we know of.
17 common misspellings of ‘Fluevog’ regularly typed into search engines.
54 high fives exchanged between Fluevogologists when FastCompany Magazine named Fluevog one of the Most Innovative Companies in the fashion industry.
At least 27 instances that suggest Fluevogs were Tina’s favo(u)rite footwear choice on Glee.
19 consecutive wins of the Best Fluevog Website Award (since 1996).
1 web order delivery attempt by pigeon mail… (no comment).
116,373 hours and counting spent by John drawing and dreaming about shoes.
972 pencils used by John to sketch shoes.
12,857 times John has tied his shoes. (The rest of the time, he just Jedi-tied them.)
9 times John blushed the day he was named Shoe Person of the Year by the Two/Ten Foundation in 2012.
64 different styles belonging to The Angel Family, Fluevog’s largest and longest consecutive running shoe family.
1 heldover museum retrospective at the Museum of Vancouver in 2010.
5 FluevogScience projects researched.
3 custom Fluevog styles designed exclusively for Air Canada rouge crew uniforms.
1 custom Fluevog style, The Miracles Medugorje, designed to help raise funds for Make-A-Wish Canada.
100 limited edition bow ties created with Cursor & Thread.
70 pairs of Sole Vision sunglasses designed & sold with the help of our friends at LA eyeworks.
1 limited edition Fluevog Timepiece style created with Nooka Watches.
1 special reserve Fluevog roast of Huehuetenango coffee roasted and sold in conjunction with JJ Bean Coffee.
1,515,665 Fluevogers and counting.
0.02105% of the world’s population identify as Fluevogers.
Fluevogers are 62% more likely than the average person to hold the door open for a stranger.
92% of current Fluevogologists are human. 8% are elves.
8 different languages spoken fluently within the Fluevog design office: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Mandarin, and Klingon.
How often John is thankful?… everyday.
