Nike Air “Crazy” Force 1 by Michael Lau
by Staff, November 21, 2008
Nike and its long-time collaborator, pioneering toy designer Michael Lau, teamed up again to create the Nike Air “Crazy” Force 1 sneaker, the ninth launch in the Nike 1World AF1 Project featuring a total of 18 influential style leaders in sports, music, art and design.
Lau’s Nike Air “Crazy” Force 1 is a wearable quilted tribute to sneaker-loving craziness. Special design features include:
– an upper-shoe made entirely from white padded leather with white quilt-patterned stitching;
- a back heel detail with a series of five x five-count scrawls in gold, to pay tribute to the 25th anniversary of Air Force 1;
- crafted polished shoelace tags, with “CRAZY” written on the left foot, and “SMILES” on the right, honoring Lau’s infamous “Crazy Smiles” production series;
- a removable white sole insert with abstract pencil scribble art.
True to the legendary collectible style of all Michael Lau creations, the much-hyped highlight of this piece is its special packaging: a boxed set featuring a pair of Nike Air “Crazy” Force 1s and a “Crazy Michael” vinyl toy figurine.
To Iaunch the Nike Air “Crazy” Force 1, Lau converted his MICHAEL GALLERY in Hong Kong into a voyeuristic-gallery experience. Guests can walk through a long white tunnel with quilted walls, where 25x peepholes allow them to look into “animated art pieces” created by him. “We’re all a bit crazy when it comes to sneakers,” says Lau. “This project is very special to me because the 1World AF1 Project has allowed me to honor the legacy of Nike Air Force 1 in my own crazy way.”
Nike’s 1World AF1 Project is a partnership project between Nike Sportswear and 18 influential style makers from around the world. Each illustrious participant was invited to design his own Air Force 1. Since June 2008, the 18 shoes have been — and still will be — selectively released in limited numbers, available only in the city where the guest designer is from. The 1World AF1s released so far have been designed by Rasheed Wallace (Philadelphia), Pedro Winter (Paris), Gore Texer (Tokyo), Kaws (New York), Questlove (Philadelphia), Daisuke Matsuzaka (Tokyo), Ladainian Tomlinson (San Diego) and Hajime Tachibana (Tokyo). This month sees the launch of design by Michael Lau (Hong Kong).
For more information check out www.nike.com/af1/index.jhtml#l=1world.
Maybe because its not just people from the US that read the site, see the bigger picture…
Feel free to stop going to Hypebeast?
noiseisgolden….ain’t that the truth. I’m getting sick of all of this cool shit posted here then click on the link to see where you can buy it….Japan or somewhere else…but not the US. I say don’t post the shit if we can’t get it. Kinda like the Hundreds putting stuff online, but for sale to the locals only. I see it as “you like it…you want it….but you can’t get it” now that’s fucked up bigtime. karma payback. why tease people with shit they can’t get???
love the quilted look…should of came with a lace tag with that guy on it to show people the significance of it
not as bad as i first thought, but an easy pass
These shoes are HOT, BUT Im starting to get sick of all of these really hot shoes only being released either outside the US or completely across the country from where I am at (Im in Florida right now). The only place you will be able to get these are probably on ebay for a few grand I am guessing. I even tried for the Kaws Air max but Im not dropping $500 and up on ebay for a pair of all white airmaxes and a few KAWS accents. Its just getting old.