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Medicom Toy Comemorates Michael Jordan's First NBA Championship with "1991 World Champion" BE@RBRICK
Available in both a 400%/100% set and a standalone 1000% iteration.
With proceeds split between The Mac Miller Fund and The Wildlife Recovery Fund.
Landing next week alongside a special-edition basketball at the storied U.K. location.
Coming in three iridescent colorways.
Like to have some reading about Nike? Wired has a article about Nike by Mark McClusky.
“From the day in 1970 that legendary University of Oregon track coach Bill Bowerman poured rubber onto his wife’s waffle iron to create a new running shoe sole, Nike has been a company dedicated to pushing the technological envelope in search of shoes that cushion, support and protect athlete’s feet.
Which is why its emphasis on running barefoot is so unexpected.”
Read the rest of the article here. Info via Freshness.
As Marc Ecko is putting up the “Getting Up Festival: Canada”. Dopefiend chats with the organizer of the festival, Paul107 about photography, Nike SB’s, and what Marc Ecko has to do with street art. Read the interview here.
The new Adidas Stan Smith II is the revolution of the original Stan Smith but more comfortable with the thin tougue. The collaboration with Oki-ni is releasing in October with three unique twist of original tennis colours. Info from Crooked Tougues.
On the Foot-Patrol site, they say something about the new Nike new project, “The Gentlemen’s Pack”.
“The next big wave on the 20th August, ‘The Gentleman’s Pack’ from NIKE: Air Zoom Trainer 1 Mid and Free Trainer. The shoes use high premium fabrics and the collars and tongues use a suiting fabric inspired by gentleman’s bespoke suits hence the name ‘The Gentleman’s Pack’. This is all we know at the moment. We’ll update more when we hear more info… Keep an eye on….”
Also, the Beautiful Losers Blazers are now available on their on-line store for 65GBP.
Undftd/Undefeated’s site has a little bit of an update. Not only is the Undftd Dunk high which are in the Clerk Pack is up, a series of Jacob Arabo sneakers is also up. Don’t they only make watches? Guess not! If we can have Diamond Dunks then why can’t we have Jacobs sneakers? They comes in all black and all white, having the two big airport names, JFK and LAX as their names. The JFK series uses leather and crocodile leather, and LAX uses leather and ostrich leather. Available now at Undftd.
Oki-ni and Adidas redesigned the 1980’s trainer exclusive for Oki-ni. They are available in three colorways, metal grey and pink, forest and aqua, blue ribbon and calvi. Personally I like the blue one since it has a taste of the classic, and looks sharp. Get yours at Oki-ni for $167.
The illustration of legendary underground comic artist Vaughn Bode and his decendants, Mark and Vincent Bode will be on display this weekend at Oaklandish. Features unseen Original Illustrations! Opening reception at 7:00pm on Friday August 12th. Answer has exclusive rights to his catalog and features some of his work on their T-Shirts. You may also recognize Bode’s famous bubble letter style as well as some his characters in the works of famous graffiti artists such as Dondi, Seen, Kel, Mare 169, Futura 2000 and Mitch. Tipped off by LaMJC.
We’ve seen what Marc Jacobs has done with the Vans Slip-Ons, and it is really is quite incredible. In the same vein, Ralph Lauren has released a Slip-On shoe with little skull and crossbones all-over! It looks so sick! Sadly, it was only released in Japan, but if you can get ahold of stuff from Japan, these can’t be missed! Believe it or not, Polo shirts were actually released in Japan featuring the same logo! Why do they get all the good stuff… via LaMJC.
Slamxhype has added great feature on Commonwealth which includes an interview and a bunch of great photos of the shop. If you live in Norfolk, Virginia you’re very lucky to be home to Commonwealth. If you’re anywhere near there, you definitely can’t miss this one! Really amazing! Big things to come from Commonwealth.
Brand new tees from the GoodEnough Tiki series is now up on Hideout Store. Info by Sneaker_Ivan on HYPEBEAST Forum.
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