“Classic, timeless and luxurious,” A Ma Maniére founder James Whitner said of the collaboration. “It’s the design language for everything we do at A Ma Maniére. The idea is that, when you’re buying things that are expensive and meaningful, you should only be doing it once, right? That way, you’re going to care for it. It’s different because it’s classic; it’s something you keep forever. It hits the timeless point. Then, it’s about having luxurious details to bring out a model like the AJ3. It’s already such an amazing, iconic model. What can you do to a shoe that’s already so incredible? You can only figure out ways to make it more timeless. When you take the [elephant print] off and replace it with suede, it automatically becomes something different, yet it also remains the same.”