Es Footwear

éS Footwear was founded in 1995 in Lake Forest, California by Sole Technology (the broader US skate-industry parent company that also operates Etnies, Emerica, and ThirtyTwo) as a specialist American skate-shoe brand specifically focused on what the founders described as 'a deliberately-team-rider-anchored professional skate-shoe brand.' The brand had a defining cultural moment through the late 1990s-early 2000s as one of the defining American skate-shoe brands. The éS Footwear vocabulary settled around several specific shoe models: the iconic éS Accel skate-shoe programme (Eric Koston signature shoe — the brand's defining 1998-pattern product), the éS Scheme, the éS Square Three, various team-pro signature models from the broader éS team-rider roster (including Eric Koston, Sal Barbier, Tom Penny, Rodrigo TX, and the broader éS team-rider roster), and a colour palette anchored to washed-black, washed-navy, ecru, oxblood, plus the brand's recurring use of saturated red, electric-blue, butter-yellow, and the iconic 1990s-American-skate-aesthetic accent combinations. The brand is owned by Sole Technology — the privately-held US skate-industry parent company. éS Footwear distributes through skate-shop wholesale globally — including the broader US, European, and Asian skate-specialty distribution network. The brand has been one of the defining post-1995 American-anchored skate-shoe brands.