On this date two years in the past, Vandal-A revealed an unimaginable collaborative challenge with Nike on one of many extra underrated and under-appreciated silhouettes of the heralded 1980s. The Vandal understandably doesn’t get the eye it deserves as a result of ubiquity of the Air Drive 1 and magnetic hype of the Dunk, however for Nike OGs, this high-top and strapped basketball shoe is each bit the icon because the aforementioned. Bolstered with a flight-jacket aesthetic by way of the olive inexperienced, black, and infrared, Vandal-A’s method to this design was additionally an homage to Geoff McFetridge’s “Tear-away” ideas from the mid-2000s – a real pioneer of the pattern of detachable exterior layers that’s hitting laborious right this moment.
After debuting his collaboration in 2018, Vandal-A seeded to super-limited pairs to a mega-exclusive group of recipients; Virgil Abloh, LeBron James, Zendaya, PJ Tucker, and DJ Khaled are simply a number of the notable figures who obtained this never-for-retail pair. These weren’t simply thrown into an unmarked orange shoebox both; it got here housed in a customized Nike field lined in inexperienced Pantone swatches, whereas a tricky utility bag impressed by previous army duffles, with thick ropes (a nod to the para-chord laces on the sneakers) and a “cash bag” and pockets that snaps onto the outside, contributing to the equipment.
As celebration of its model’s anniversary (which falls on March ninth), Vandal-A has teamed up with SN Insider to offer away one among these units to Sneaker Information and Vandal-A loyalists. Simply fifty had been made by Nike, making these one of the restricted collaborations in latest reminiscence, and it really is uncommon for an precise Nike friends-and-family challenge to be made out there to the general public. Click on right here to enter this giveaway.
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