1985 was the year. Michael Jordan was signed into the Bulls with his undefeated resume (UNC champ and a Team USA star player). Nike team puts their faith on this new rookie and prepared him his own sneakers, the Air Jordan. The first Air Jordan was banned by David Stern because of the black/red color scheme (other Bulls players wear white) and the Bulls were charged about $5,000/ game for it. Nike, seeing this as a marketing opportunity, pays the charges. With this Air Jordan 1, MJ has brought back the Bulls to the playoff and was nominated Rookie of the Year. The AJ1 has 23 different colorways (samples included) and these were quite common in discount racks back in the day. Past retro days, these sold relatively well (2001,2003,2007), even with the the infamous mid-cut version and some strange colored low-cuts. 2008 will bring back the high-cut version of the AJ1 (hallelujah!), dates are posted below.


2008 Air Jordan 1 retro (packages are excluded) - thanks to sneakerfiles.com
Air Jordan 1 Retro
136085-161
White/Midnight Navy/Metallic Silver/Varsity Red
$100.00

Air Jordan 1 Retro High LS
332134-061
Black/White/Varsity Red
$125.00

Air Jordan 1 Retro High LS
332134-631
Varsity Red/White/Dark Army
$125.00

Air Jordan 1 Retro High
332550-011
Black/White
$110.00

For those of you who watched the grammy's few weeks ago:
when Kanye appeared, there are things that you should notice striking: the song, the hair, the jacket, and last but not least.. the sneakers.



Nike barely collaborates in creating new type of sneakers with superstars (unlike Reebok or Adidas), last collaboration was with Eminem (correct me if I am wrong).

Let's talk old school... there was an event where AF1 fans could vote for a favorite pair of AF1 to be retro'ed and this is the result for the people in NYC.. a 1993 pair of AF1 high. OLD SCHOOL! You peeps in NYC are lucky... I have to pray for some pairs to drop to Jakarta (Indonesia, South East Asia if you suck at geography). Very limited as well... I still have no clue when these are releasing.

One of my favorite collaborations from Supreme... Terry Rich. the photographer with... Kermit?! It does not get any better than this! (Kermit > Kate Moss) .. Follow up to this is an exhibition in Collette, Paris.. Terry has collaborated frequently with Supreme; one that I could recall right now from the top of my head is the 'teen lust', 'kate moss', and some 'porno lookin' shirt. Correct me if I am wrong. (pics through Hypebeast).

My boys at Sneakernews.com just posted an article about these new special edition kicks that just been released. Created by Allen of 12ozprophet.com, the shoes come with the color red, blue and yellow. Simple design and a wonderful solid color, give these kicks a 10 out of 10. Making it the kicks that could probably stand out the most when your in a building filled with 100 people.

To visit the website click on the following link:
Rocksmith

To view more about the event or even about the designers, click on the following links:

STREEThing All In The Family

Lazy

If you remember back in 1991 Slam Dunk competition (when every "ordinary" dunks nowadays were still spectacular), there was this man named Dee Brown. .. . . and Dee made a no-look dunk. Spectacular! Reebok's retro'ing the Reebok pump Dee wore during his dunk. These will be limited to 1991 pairs and are releasing on April 1. UNDFTD will be selling them online, I believe, so go save money and buy some piece of history!