Four years ago Kenna Rettew found herself in a similar situation with the rest of the country; stuck at home during the pandemic. One day while scrolling through social media, she came across a trend of hand painting custom designs on shoes. In a moment of inspiration, she decided to give it a try. It didn’t take long before others recognized her talent, and Kicks By Kenna was formed.
Four years later, she’s now a student at Arizona State while still working with almost every major sports league in America, making custom shoes and cleats for professional athletes. But its not just athletes that have reached out interested in her designs. During her senior year of high school, she made a custom pair of shoes for President Joe Biden and received a letter from him in return.
Kicks By Kenna focuses on shoes but also does custom paint designs for shirts, hats and lots of other things. Anyone interested in getting a custom design only needs to provide the thing they want painted, pay the base rate and give a general concept of the design they want. After that, Kenna’s talent and creativity does the rest. Anyone interested can reach out to her on social media.
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Spenser Tilus is a sports reporter for Burn City Sports. You can follow him on his X account @Spenser_Tilus
