Ansel Elgort Talks Sneaker Collaboration with Paul Andrew

Ansel Elgort Talks Sneaker Collaboration with Paul Andrew
Leigh Nordstrom
Ansel Elgort, on a solo mission to explore the raw bar, stood licking caviar off his hand. "All the cool kids are doing it in Paris," was the explanation offered by tattooed waiter manning the food station. "It's nice to just taste the caviar." The 23 year-old actor and budding musician was all too happy to indulge. Elgort came out to downtown Manhattan restaurant Chinese Tuxedo to join his friend – and new collaborator – Paul Andrew at a dinner thrown by Jo Malone London Wednesday night. "We met at some sort of CFDA event, and then he asked me to do some sort of sneaker wear awards [the Footwear News Achievement Awards]," Elgort said. In a toast, Andrew told the crowd he and Elgort are working together on a sneaker collaboration, an idea first planted during that Footwear News event. "It was then that we were in the car that I said 'I would love to do a collaboration with you,' which I said sort of as a joke, but seriously, and he said 'Yeah we should,'" Elgort explained. "Eventually we actually got together." He showed off the green, white and gray high tops he had on for the evening,

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