When writer and community advocate Juanita Mathews wanted to create a signature item that would promote her fictional tale of Rose Johnson, a young girl from Chicago’s south side who dreams of becoming a champion Irish step dancer, she landed on the idea of a sneaker. She wrote it as a film or stage treatment, but the story was never picked up. She contacted sneaker designer Trent Colquitt to create a custom kick design, the Black Irish Rose, to revive possible interest in this project. kAm“#@D6 5C62>D 3:886C E92? 96C 4:C4F>DE2?46D[” D96 HC@E6[ “2?5 96C DE@CJ C6AC6D6?ED C6D:=:6?46[ 4F=EFC2= 4@??64E:@?D[ 2?5 E96 7:C6 ?6G6C E@ 8:G6 FA] uC@> DEC66E DEJ=6 E@ DE@CJE6==:?8[ E96 q=24< xC:D9 #@D6 56D:8? :D >@C6 E92? 2 D?62<6C[ :E’D 2 >@G6>6?E]”k^Am kAmr@=BF:EE H6=4@>6D :?BF:C:6D 23@FE 9:D H@C<

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