"Their big pitch was that if Lebron James could have a shoe then why not 'insert-any-horse's-name,'" Floyd told Insider. didn't have much experience in the realm, but he said he was willing to give it a shot.
"I was able to deconstruct shoes that were already made so that I could use the leather and everything to construct the horse kicks," Floyd said. Essentially, he took apart the original sneakers, stitch by stitch. From there, Floyd was able to reconstruct a shoe on top of a horse boot model. Floyd's deconstruction process required taking apart human sneakers and recreating them to fit a horse.
Floyd says he enjoys customising sneakers for every customer, human or horse, that comes his way and though he still works at Toyota full-time, sneakers are where his true passion lies. "One thing that's really opened my eyes with this project is that culturally there are a lot of African Americans that ride horses and I didn't realize that until this project. There is a huge culture for horses in the African American community but in Lexington, that's just not something that we see," Floyd said.