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People Tricked Nike’s SNKRS Stash to Get ‘Lemonade’ Off-White x AF1s

Last weekend, Nike treated fans in the Boston area to an exclusive launch of Virgil Abloh’s Off-White x Air Force 1 Low “Lemonade” through the brand’s SNKRS app. The shoes, designed to coincide with Abloh’s ICA Boston “Figures of Speech” exhibit, follow the tonal color theme laid out by his previous museum-exclusive AF1 designs, including a black pair for the MoMA and a university blue for MCA Chicago. This new university gold, or as Abloh dubbed it, “Lemonade,” version dropped on July 10 through a feature Nike calls SNKRS Stash. This allows people who are within a certain proximity (usually in key cities or event venues) to unlock access to the shoes. The limited stock is available on a first-come, first-served basis, and only users who are nearby are able to participate in the Stash—or at least that’s how it’s intended to work.

Similar to the sneaker bot phenomenon, collectors and resellers have found loopholes to get their hands on SNKRS Stash releases without being in the area. Sometimes, like in the case of one buyer Complex spoke with under the condition of anonymity, they’re on the other side of the country. By faking, or as it’s widely known, spoofing, one’s location with special software, they can make the app think they’re in the targeted range, order the shoes, and get them without stepping foot out of their house. While the buyer says it wasn’t particularly difficult to pull off, it’s not a foolproof method.

“Location spoof can be a toss up,” the Off-White x AF1 owner says. “Depends if they have Bluetooth beacons setup to verify you’re physically there. As long as you have the right tools and the right coordinates, it’s not that hard. Having the right coordinates is key when you’re spoofing. You have to be within a certain distance from the Stash in order for it to unlock and allow you to try to purchase the shoe.”

Like botting, people spoofing their locations in attempt to buy sneakers they couldn’t otherwise get isn’t a new thing, but it’s especially eye-opening to see it affect a release of this extent.

The spoofer, who says they plan to wear the shoes since they were able to get their size, doesn’t feel that there’s any moral issues at play and instead chalks it up to how hyped things have gotten.

“Everyone is looking for the advantage,” they said. “This has resulted in bots, spoofing, people bringing their families to lineups. It’s harder for everyone to get exclusive shoes, not just people in Boston.”

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NIKE BRINGS HOT PINK TO THIS WOMEN'S AIR FORCE 1 PIXEL

A modernized take on the classic Air Force 1, the Nike Air Force 1 Pixel features jagged, glitch-inspired design details. While the design stays true to its predecessor in terms of overall build, it features a reimagined toe box, a midsole with unaligned edges and inlaid Swooshes. The model even eschews the traditional branded dubrae for a minimal rectangular bead.

This women’s colorway starts with a “Summit White” suede base with Swooshes, tongue tags and heel overlays in “Mystic Hibiscus.” Classic white offers subtle contrast on the shoe’s midsole, outsole and mesh lining. Playing into the graphic design inspiration, the Pixel also features reimagined “NIKE” and “AF1” branding on the tongue, heel and insole.

Look out for the Nike Air Force 1 “Mystic Hibiscus” to release in the coming months with a $110 USD price tag.

In other footwear news, take a look at the women’s Nike Dunk Low “Rose Whisper.”

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Louis Vuitton x Nike Air Force 1s, Virgil Abloh, and the History of Luxury Bootlegs

It can’t possibly exist, yet it does. It’s the sort of thing one expects to see posted as a mockup on a social media account or sold on a dubious website that may or may not actually fulfill the order. But the Louis Vuitton x Nike Air Force 1 collaboration is the real deal, a bold and deep collection of 21 sneakers unveiled to great surprise at the French fashion house’s Spring 2022 men’s show last week. They are the work of Louis Vuitton’s menswear designer, Virgil Abloh, whose Nike résumé already includes a range of ambitious projects via his Off-White brand.

He has described the new Air Force 1s as being placed on a plinth, being complete simply by being inside the institution of fashion.

Long before the sneakers became official, they were a vision, something purely aspirational. They were a proposal from Black fashion that a pair of basketball shoes could exist in dialogue with European couture. It was all a dream, basically.

The shoes are peak hype wear, but they come with a story written across decades and sprouting up from subcultures into the mainstream. The Louis Vuitton x Nike Air Force 1 collection could only exist at this point in time, when sportswear and luxury fashion so comfortably interact, but also it can only exist through time, the story of the shoes starting in the late 1980s.

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Virgil Abloh Is Bringing the Nike Air Force 1 to Louis Vuitton

It takes two, Rob Base and DJ E-Z Rock famously explained, to make things go right and outta sight. “It takes two” is a fitting mantra for the sneaker industry, too, as brands have dosey-doed into collaborative nirvana. More specifically, the 1988 hit song is also the source code for the latest batch of sneakers from Louis Vuitton’s men’s artistic director Virgil Abloh: 21 pairs of Air Force 1s made in partnership between Nike and the French house (now that’s two making it outta sight). Last week, during the Louis Vuitton men’s spring-summer 2022 runway show, Abloh debuted almost two dozen of the Swooshed and LV monogrammed sneakers in green, white, metallic blue, lemon yellow, red, and even Vuitton’s iconic “Damier” check that probably have StockX building out additional servers in preparation.

The shoes are a very long time coming, and a full-circle moment for culture and Abloh, according to notes provided along with the show. Abloh provides a new list of concepts and definitions every season, laid out the same way your biology textbook defined protons and xylem. This season, the Air Force 1 is defined as “one of the most successful shoes ever created,” according to the notes. But Abloh is particularly interested in the version of the Air Force 1 that appears on the cover art for Rob Base and DJ E-Z Rock’s single—the one that was customized so that the Nike Swoosh was covered with the Louis Vuitton monogram. “The cover embodied the hip-hop community’s early practice of hacking together high fashion and sportswear, side-lining diverging brands with equal reverence.” Now, Abloh is making that 1988 bootleg official. (There are a few classic Abloh touches on the Air Vuitton 1s: where Abloh typically prints “LACES” on...the laces, here they have the French translation: “LACET.”)

The partnership between Abloh and Nike has been incredibly fruitful since it first kicked off in 2017. Abloh has made a habit out of taking large bites out of the apple: his first collaboration featured his take on 10 different iconic Nike models, and more recently, Abloh announced that he’s customized 50 Nike Dunks. Over that time, the relationship between sneakers and high fashion have started to change drastically: one of the most coveted shoes of 2020 (and the only one to show up at Joe Biden’s inauguration) was Dior’s Air Jordan 1, which carries a resale price tag of $8,000.

Abloh’s Louis Vuitton-Nike tie-up fits this trajectory. While Abloh’s past collaborations with Nike have focused mostly on making high-fashion design accessible through $250-or-less sneakers, this collaboration is about making the sneaker a super-luxe item. Another show note—the one defining Abloh’s new sporty take on the suit—provides useful context. By splicing together a suit and a tracksuit, he’s challenging the perceptions of what’s “formal” and what’s “street”: “Is a man in tailoring trustworthy? Is a man in ‘streetwear’ less trustworthy?” the notes read. Abloh writes that he wants to remix these enough that both lose their traditional symbolism. Is a sneaker “formal” or is it “street”?

This philosophy applies to Abloh’s sneakers, too—and, really, to his entire career. Since the beginning of his partnership with Nike, he’s been pushing the idea of what a sneaker can be—and now, he can broker a partnership between a (his!) historic French leather goods maison and an Oregon-based sportswear company, and the only question people have is: when and where can I buy it? Louis Vuitton’s answer: “Stay tuned for more details.”

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On-Foot View of the Nike Dunk Low "Aged Navy"

Anytime a certain silhouette under the Nike (NYSE:NKE +0.11%) catalog is trending, the brand will typically capitalize on this by dropping it in a plethora of different makeovers both classic and modern. Right now, the Dunk is the model of the moment, and after recently appearing with spooky uppers for Halloween and other “Be True to Your School” friendly color palettes, the low-cut offering has appeared with an “Aged Navy” motif.

As you can probably infer from its moniker, the shoes come styled with midsole units that have been pre-yellowed in an effort to achieve a vintage, worn-in in aesthetic. The rest of the design elements of these kicks arrive in familiar fashion. Uppers are assembled with smooth leathers and color-block between “Midnight Navy” that drips onto the Swooshes, overlays, interior liners and the tongue and heel Nike branding while the toe boxes, collars, quarters, tongues and laces are engulfed in white. Underneath the midsole section comes a solid outsole that is submerged in more “Midnight Navy”.

No release info for these Dunk Lows has emerged just yet, but it’s likely that these won’t be hitting the shelves until 2022. The MSRP will be set at the usual $100 USD.

In other sneaker news, Supreme and Nike are dropping two Cross Trainer Lows for Fall 2021.

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Here’s an On-Foot Look at the 'League of Legends' Pro League x Nike Dunk Low

Debuted earlier this month, another view of the League of Legends Pro League (LPL) x Nike (NYSE:NKE +0.11%) Dunk Low has surfaced on the internet. Since 2019, the duo has been building on their partnership as they previously launched an esports kit and an Air Jordan 1 Zoom CMFT accompanied by a few other classic silhouettes and a collection of apparel in the past few years. The sportswear giant has become the official footwear and apparel sponsor for the top online gaming league in China as it shaped up a design specifically made for players.

YankeeKicks has graced us with an on-foot look at the shoe which features a colorway slightly recalling the Air Yeezy 2 in “Solar Red” with a predominantly inky black construction of uppers and hints of red and soft green hues. Surrounding a reptile skin-like quarter panel, overlays are subtly decorated in traditional Chinese embellishments as a nod to the origin of the prime gaming league. The lateral Swoosh adopts the same iridescent look as the Jumpman release with a glow-in-the-dark outline emphasizing the iconic motif. A Bright Crimson shade pops out from the sockliner and the ends of the laces while co-branding elements can be found on the tongue. The glow-in-the-dark details continue onto the heel tab with a pixel treatment as well as the translucent rubber outsole under a black midsole.

Look out for the LPL x Nike Dunk Low to release sometime this holiday season at select retailers and via Nike.

For more collaboration releases, take an official look at the SoleFly x Air Jordan 1 Low “Carnivore.”

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Another Fruit-Inspired Nike SB Dunk Is on the Way

First look at the 'Pineapple' SB Dunk High.

It appears that the “Blue Raspberry” Nike SB Dunk Low is just one of the few fruit-inspired colorways that fans can expect soon. There’s also this pineapple-themed colorway of the SB Dunk that’s expected to be joining the fray as well.

Newly leaked images of the “Pineapple” SB Dunk High were shared by @PVAsneakers on Instagram. Design-wise, the shoe features a fairly straightforward sail and orange color scheme that’s reminiscent of the fruit while the green-colored heel tab is inspired by the fruit’s crown. If the inspiration for this pair wasn’t clear enough, there’s also a graphic of the fruit embroidered behind the tongue tag.

Despite this early look, release details for the “Pineapple” Nike SB Dunk High haven’t been revealed by the brand, but check back soon to Sole Collector for updates.

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Las Nike Dunk de los Mets son las zapatillas más americanas que verás hoy

Las Nike Dunk lo han vuelto a conseguir. El modelo de los 80, que Virgil Abloh colocó en primerísima línea entre todos los lanzamientos de Nike, es relevante de nuevo.

Después de tener sus momentos de gloria en los 90 y los 2000, las Nike Dunk habían pasado a un plano secundario del mercado de zapatillas. No fue hasta finales de 2019, con una colaboración entre Nike y Off-White, que volvieron a la carga.

Desde entonces no hemos parado de verlas en nuestra página de noticias. Cada modelo de Nike Dunk que sale a la venta se termina agotando y, en consecuencia, no para de haber nuevos modelos de Nike Dunk a la venta. No obstante, de vez en cuando sale alguno que se desmarca de esa estética de color block que ha caracterizado la silueta y nos sorprende haciendo que paguemos, gustosos, el precio que vale la innovación. Esta es una de esas veces.

Las Nike SB Dunk High New York Mets rinden homenaje a uno de los principales equipos del otro deporte nacional americano: el béisbol. En lugar de haber dividido su parte superior en placas de color, este modelo ha optado por un acercamiento tonal. Así, el grueso del calzado se ha teñido de lona gris, mientras que las superposiciones lo cubren en ante del mismo color.

La diversión empieza en los detalles. El Swoosh que sella el modelo se ha vestido de los colores del equipo: azul marino y naranja. Los mismos tonos se recuperan en la etiqueta de la lengüeta, mientras que el añil cubre el interior de la zapatilla.

Si miramos la cara interior de la etiqueta de la lengüeta, veremos en el pie izquierdo un círculo violeta con un 7 dentro, referencia a la línea 7 de metro que conecta la estación Willets Point Boulevard con la estación Flushing Main o Hudson Yards. En el pie derecho, una manzana con un logo de los Mets en miniatura acompaña la inscripción “Home Run”, una referencia a la manzana gigante del campo que sale cada vez que se ejecuta la jugada.

La historia de amor de las Nike Dunk con los Mets no empieza aquí. Ya en 2002, cuando las primeras Nike SB Dunk salieron a la venta, Danna Supa elaboró sus propias zapatillas en los colores del equipo.

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CLOT AND NIKE JOIN FORCES ON A FUTURISTIC DUNK HIGH

Channeling Diddy’s shiny suit era.

CLOT‘s 2022 release calendar is already heating up. Following a Levi’s collaboration, a co-branded Bang & Olufsen speaker and a forthcoming Air Jordan 5, the streetwear and lifestyle brand is bringing their unique perspective to a Nike Dunk High.

Revealed via Instagram user @pvasneakers, the CLOT x Nike Dunk High comes with a head-turning, glossy silver chrome upper. Following the futuristic theme, the traditional Swoosh is reimagined as a topstitched outline. Hits of white on the midsole, lining and laces offer contrast to this mostly monochromatic design.

Stay tuned for official photos and release info. In other footwear news, take a first look at the Nike SB Dunk “Fruit Pack” rumored to release on 4/20.