About Us

We started in 1996. Back then, a few skaters got together and decided to build something different. The skate shoe market was mostly owned by big names, and most of the pros wearing those shoes weren't seeing much from the sales they helped drive. That didn't sit right with us. So we set out to make shoes designed by the people who actually use them, not just by people in an office somewhere.

Our first shoes came out of Southern California. Not Silicon Valley, not a big corporate campus. Just a small team of skateboarders who knew what worked on a board and what didn't. The name Osiris — yeah, it's from Egyptian mythology. But it wasn't random. The same year we launched, the Wu-Tang Clan was recording "Wu-Tang Forever," and Ol' Dirty Bastard introduced his alter ego "Osiris" on that album. We didn't plan that. It just happened.

Then 1999 came around. Our pro skater Dave Mayhew wanted to build something that didn't look like anything else out there. He saw a hiking boot at a store with big lace holes at the top and thought — what if those ran down the whole side of the shoe and got smaller toward the toe? That conversation turned into the D3. Big vents down the sides. A chunky, padded silhouette nobody had seen before. At first it was quiet. But word spread. And soon enough, the D3 became one of the best-selling skate shoes of all time. Millions of pairs later, it's still the shoe people remember us for.

Here's something we're quietly proud of. Most of the original skate shoe companies from the 90s have been bought and sold, shuffled around by corporations. We're still independent and owner-operated. That means we don't answer to shareholders who never touched a skateboard. We answer to our team riders, our customers, and ourselves.

We've also been making shoes without animal products since before it was trendy. Started experimenting with synthetics back in the early 2000s. Not for marketing reasons — we visited a tannery once, saw what it looked like, and decided we wanted to do things differently. Today, over 98% of our line is vegan.

What we make now? The D3 lineup still leads the way — the 2001, the OG, the E, the S. We've also got the NYC 83, the Peril, the Pixel, the Troma ALT. Some are chunky and loud. Some are stripped down for pure board feel. But everything we make is still tested by skaters, built to take a beating, and meant to look like something you don't see everywhere else.

We're not trying to be everyone's shoe. We're the shoe for people who remember what skate culture looked like before it got polished and packaged. And for the kids just discovering it now, who want something with a real story behind it.

We've been at this for nearly thirty years. Not because we followed trends. Because we made our own and stuck with them.

Thanks for being here.