The Sublime Off-White™ x Air Jordan 4 Spearheads This Week's Best Footwear Drops
Alongside the adidas YEEZY BOOST 380 “Blue Oat,” Grateful Dead x Nike SB Dunk Lows and Jaden Smith’s New Balance.
Outside of NBA All-Star Weekend, you could very well make a case for this forthcoming seven-day stretch as the most eventful release week of the year so far. There’s desirable collabs aplenty from the old guard and fresh faces alike, the debut of a new signature basketball shoe, and plenty of revitalized classics as well. We’ll get to all of them in due time, but before we do let’s take a primer on last week’s happenings.
Leading things off, HYPEBEAST spoke to Nyjah Huston — a man widely regarded as the finest competitive skateboarder in the world — about his new Nike SB Nyjah Free 2, a Spiridon-inspired signature silhouette that blends potent performance and a lifestyle look. Moving from the skate greats to the hoops G.O.A.T, two of Michael Jordan’s game-worn kicks were put up for auction: one a rare Air Ship PE from 1984, the other a signed 1986 Air Jordan 1 injury PE with a strap-and-buckle support system. Each could fetch upwards of $500,000 USD, potentially shattering the record set by the game-worn and signed Air Jordan 1 “Chicago” that sold for $560,000 USD at Sotheby’s in May.
The assemblage of collaborative kicks was quite diverse, spanning a wide scope of styles and partners. UNDERCOVER offered a first glimpse at four rose-laden Nike ISPA OverReacts. We received our best looks yet at G-Dragon’s silver PEACEMINUSONE x Nike Air Force 1 and sacai’s double-stacked Vaporwaffle in both “Tour Yellow” and “Black/White.” Ronnie Fieg teased a new ASICS collaboration, NBA players were spotted in J. Cole and PUMA’s new basketball shoe and John Mayer rocked Salehe Bembury’s brightly-colored New Balance 2002. Even K-Swiss got in on the action with a Harry Potter-themed Hypercourt Express 2 tennis shoe, inspired by the Boy Who Lived’s famed Quidditch broom. An old favorite had a moment in the sun too, with rumors beginning to surface that the adidas YEEZY BOOST 350 V2 “Bred” would re-release later this year.
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