At around 1 p.m. L.A. time Saturday, Travon Free still didn’t have the shoes he and his co-director, Martin Desmond Roe, had planned to wear Sunday night as live-action short nominees for Two Distant Strangers at the Academy Awards. (The pair won a statuette for the film at the awards show.) But FedEx promised they were solving the problem.A self-avowed “major sneakerhead,” Free — who has just become the first Black filmmaker to win an Oscar in the category — wanted to wear a pair of Jordans customized by Dan Gamache, whose Connecticut-based Mache Custom Kicks studio has become the go-to source for stars and athletes alike.
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