S0101 Compass Leather Sneaker
Stone Island's leather low-top with the compass on the tongue — the house's footwear program, descended from its early Grime sneaker.
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Story & heritage
The leather low-top is Stone Island's footwear — a clean lace-up sneaker carrying the compass on the tongue. It belongs to the brand's footwear program, the contemporary descendant of its first proper foray into shoes: the Grime sneaker, named not for the state of the shoe but for the British music genre, reflecting how deeply Stone Island became woven into UK underground culture in the early 2000s.
Where the heritage of the house is in fabric and outerwear, the footwear extends the badge onto the feet — the same compass that sits on every sleeve, applied to a shoe. The S0101 leather sneaker is the current clean expression: a minimal low-top that lets the emblem on the tongue do the identifying.
Materials & craft
The S0101 is built on a leather upper with a tonal heel counter and a contrast cupsole, finished with the embroidered compass logo on a supple leather tongue and the brand's small detailing through the lace tips and eyelets. The construction is deliberately spare — a tennis-style silhouette that reads as a quiet everyday sneaker carrying the badge rather than a loud technical trainer.
How to choose & style
The leather low-top is the versatile pick — black with the green-and-yellow compass tongue is the most recognisable, the all-tonal versions the most discreet. It pairs naturally with the brand's tapered cargos and a shell jacket, finishing the Stone Island look at the feet. For a more technical, military-leaning shoe the brand's chunkier and Dyneema styles are the alternative; the S0101 is the clean everyday option.