Michael Jordan paid Nike Town a visit today. It was his first visit since 1999. In the building also, was non other than “The Architect” himself, Tinker Hatfield. The visit was a chance for Michael Jordan fans to hear a few words from his “Airness,” with a little Q&A mixed in. After the show, those in attendance had a chance to purchase a pair of the Jordan Grape V’s. And of course, since it’s one of the most sought after shoes as of late, there was a good deal of chaos. Tinker Hatfield also stayed to sign boxes, shoes, retro cards, books, and posters, while fellow designer Mark Smith was in attendance to talk to press. I’m sure those who stood outside for long hours definitely deserved what they waited for.
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Upper Playground, in conjunction with the FIFTY24SF Gallery Housweares line will be releasing a new set of artist rendered pillows. The artists involved in this project are Morning Breath (Brooklyn), Jeremy Fish (San Francisco), Sam Flores (San Francisco), David Choe (San Jose), Brian Flynn (San Francisco), Cody Hudson (Chicago) and Truce Design (New York). The pillows are from 100% cotton and are 18×18 in size. You can check out the pillows and other housewares products at the Upper Playground site.
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Greedy Genius will be having a special drop this holiday season. The reflective pack, as it is called is made up of four sneakers in four different colorways, and are made with 3M colored reflective material and premium leather. Expect them to drop sometime next month.
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Well after all this time of Nike using faux snake skin on all these different models of kicks they been putting out over the years, its good to finally see them using this sick material on something other than a pair of Air Force 1’s.
This time around Nike decided to choose the Dunk Low as their sneaker of choice, featuring premium white leather along with pressed black leather to give these shoes a very clean snake skin effect, these samples (if they ever drop) are almost sure to be high in demand.
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By now i’m sure most people know that this year Sneaker Pimps decided to work with JB Classics to create their collaboration pair of sneakers for their Sneaker Pimps NYC leg of the tour. Here today we’ve been sent some new teaser photos as well as photos from the production floor as JB and Mdot start to get near their goal of finishing up their order for these stylish new kicks to be sent off to NYC for the show.
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