NIGO’s Nike Collaboration Is Surprisingly Luxurious

NIGO’s debut Nike sneaker is certainly one of 2024’s greatest sneaker collaborations and it hasn’t even occurred but. Supposedly an Air Pressure Low 3, an Nike silhouette rendered obscure till it was worn by The Common, NIGO’s first-ever Nike shoe will probably be historical past, no matter it’s.

It has been within the works for a minute: whereas NIGO’s been designing runway appears for KENZO and streetwear collections for Human Made, he is been secretly growing an apparently in depth collaboration with Nike since April 2023.

Particulars of NIGO’s Nike collaboration have been locked away like the private treasures hoarded inside his huge storage unit. And all we have actually seen from his upcoming link-up with the Swoosh with regard to sneakers is a a suspiciously novel colorway of the Air Pressure 3 Low sneaker that NIGO himself repped in November 2023.

Other than that, the one collaborative attire to floor from the gathering is a pink co-branded Nike x NIGO T-shirt worn by the designer for the finale of KENZO’s Fall/Winter 2024 presentation earlier this 12 months.

But it lastly appears that leakers have gathered extra particulars of NIGO’s upcoming collaboration with Nike, revealing that the team-up is perhaps extra luxurious than we first thought.

For one, NIGO’s collaboration with Nike is about to drop in Fall 2024, which feels feels seasonally aligned with the brown and earthy colours of the Air Pressure 3 Low he teased in November 2023.

Other than the graphic T-shirt and Air Pressure 3 Low sneaker, NIGO’s Nike line will supposedly embody varsity jackets and crewnecks. This assortment is wanting like an actual cozy scenario.

The gathering is rumored to be priced between 80,000 Gained and 700,000 Gained, or round $60 to $500. Which means a minimum of one piece on this Nike assortment will price a reasonably examine, no pun meant.

My guess is the marquee piece would be the varsity jacket, since varsitys launched by way of collaborations with Nike retail round that worth, like this collaborative piece made with Patta in Might 2024.

It is attention-grabbing that NIGO’s most attention-grabbing sneaker collaborations are centered on obscure sneakers just like the EQT Sandal and Nizza Hello. It is not like NIGO’s hostile to widespread sneakers.

He constructed BAPE’s foothold throughout the sneaker house by way of his personal take established Nike sneakers just like the Air Pressure 1 and his hottest collaborations with adidas had been centered on Superstars and Stan Smiths made in collaboration with Human Made.

Nevertheless, he beforehand instructed Highsnobiety that that he was afraid of tweaking basic Adidas fashions.

“They’re basic in order that they’re excellent as they’re and there is not that a lot you need to change and to throw away what makes them particular can be pointless,” NIGO told us.

If there was any predecessor to NIGO’s Air Pressure Low 3, it is NIGO’s tackle adidas’ Rivalry Hello from 2014. Just like the Air Pressure Low 3, the unique mannequin was a high-top basketball sneaker launched within the Eighties. I assume for NIGO, ball is life.