Today’s news has been rather comic-friendly as we’ve shown you three colorways from the Marvel x Reebok Pack, but don’t count out the alternate universe known as DC Comics and its endeavor into kicks! We’ve seen plenty of DC Comics x Nike over the last few years, but this upcoming Fall/Winter release capsule refreshes the classic Batman and Superman personas with mural-like graphics on the Nike Chuck Taylor upper. Of course, this Summer will serve as quite the platform for DC Comics-based films, with Dark Knight Rises and Man Of Steel hitting the silver screen in the coming months. A complete look at the DC Comics x Nike preview is just ahead, so take a look and select one of the bunch that you like best. via FRESHNESS
Try as they might, Missy Elliot and Timbaland were mostly unsuccessful when it came to integrating punk rock aesthetics into hip-hop culture in the early 00s. Given the proximity of this attempt, Cam-Ron’s Purple Haze and G- joints including Units and Codes, you might read this new purple Nike Chuck Taylor Free Run ‘G-STUD’ as a nearly spilled cup inside your candy paint car three-wheeling through turn of the century street culture. And though the Japanese are noted connoisseurs of American pop output, it’s more likely Nike Free Run 5.0 V4 that the name is a coincidence, that purple is just a single color Air Max 95 360 Womens in this trio and that G-STUD(s) are the golden rivets on the top eyelet and heel stripe. The explanation is relatively straightforward, but getting a pair of these will be somewhat less so given the need for an overseas connect to aid in grabbing these from select Nike Japan Nike Japan retailers.
We’ve sneakers inspired by classic cars and designed in collaboration with upcale hotels, but this new drop from Nike looks to the skies for one of the more unique ‘collabo’ capsules we’ve seen this year. The One Star examines the impact of 1978′s Airline Deregulation Act in this set of Braniff International x Nike Chuck Taylor Free Runs and Air Max Purcells. Decked out in colors copied from ads that served as the basis for American Apparel’s ironic, stark sexiness, these kicks take you up in the air and back Nike Free Run 4.0 V3 in time to a period when Chucks only came in a handful of colors. Times have changed and Braniff’s closure in ’82 was just the start of consolidation in the airline industry, but the true classics always keep their value. Click through to see more of this iconic American mashup and be ready when they touch down in Japan this July. via HS