The ever-growing partnership between Missoni and Nike has culminated in an outstanding Archive Project, but the buck doesn’t stop there; dropping this Holiday season is another Chuck Taylor masterpiece designed with Missoni’s triangular patch quilt design. Added tan leather foxing around the midsole and toe adds a level of unforeseen luxury (a nod to the Offspring collabs of years back), while the green interior throws in a piece of casual style. Australian retailer UpThereStore will be releasing these midnight on September 29th (local time to Australia) so watch out for these at the most select Nike First String retailers and enjoy the gallery below.
Sneaker News just showed you the Dookie-inspired lowtop Chuck Taylors on a Tuesday that marked Nike Free Run 5.0 V4 the release of the first of three new Green Day albums, which also marks a roughly eighteen year period during which lead singer Billie Joe Armstrong has appeared Nike Free Run 5.0 V2 on stage wearing All Stars more than all other footwear options combined. Fitting, then, that the Green Day x Nike Free Run All Star tour rolls on with another date, as today a design derived from album art for ¡Uno! arrives in a boldly patterned green/pink ensemble. Let us know how the stripes compare to the Missoni collabos we also just previewed, or whether the Gorillaz capsule would be a better comparison, then find the Uno All Stars available straight from Nike.
By now, we all know that Billie Joe Armstrong isn’t Justin Bieber, but for those of us who’ve been around long enough to remember when his band Green Day burst onto the scene, that was never in question. A whole new generation of music fans will recognize the lead singer/guitarist thanks to Armstrong’s meltdown this weekend at the iHeart Radio Music Festival, but these elder statesmen of the ’90s alt-rock scene have been famous for almost two decades (and pajama rich for nearly as long, having toured non-stop Nike Air Max Mens and sold over 65 million albums worldwide). Celebrating nearly twenty years since Dookie‘s cartoon cover showed up alongside every longhaired kid’s Discman, the Green Day x Nike Free Run All Star is the latest to apply legendary album art to the timeless canvas silo. Let us know these compare to earlier rock releases and stick with Sneaker News because although the Dookie XX celebration won’t happen until February, 2014, it’s a safe bet these won’t make it half that long before we’re taken away to paradise.