![]() I’m just a fan and I am a consumer, and I love their stuff. Everyone is aware of your fandom of the Grateful Dead, and you might be the biggest deadhead of all time. I’ve been a Dead-head since I was 15 years old – that’s 53 years now. Excellent product, incredible human culture, and then authenticity and quality with these phenomenal shoes here. I love companies that epitomize everything that I believe in. So I’m Bill and this is John and this is a harmonic convergence of the highest order between Nike and the Grateful Dead. I had the AC blasting in my apartment for the last three hours. John Kim for Sneaker News: I could not miss the opportunity to wear tie dye in front of the great Bill Walton, and the only tie-dye thing I own is a hoodie. All three pairs will retail for $110 and come in the multi-colored Quickstrike shoe-box.īill Walton: You know John, you got your tie dye sweatshirt on, man. The yellow and green versions will release on July 24th the yellow will be available at skate-shops and Nike SNKRS, while the green version will be exclusive to skate-shops. The orange version of the Grateful Dead x Nike SB Dunk Low will release on July 18th exclusively at San Francisco’s FTC it will not release anywhere else. Although there are five bears in the original artwork, just three were transformed into the SB Dunk Low – leaving us to believe that the remaining two will make their appearance somewhere down the line – possibly on a different shoe. Those drawn characters were a reference to Owsley Stanley, an audio engineer nicknamed Bear who helped develop the group’s Wall of Sound system as well as the cartoon symbol, among other things. The design is based off the marching bears, whose origin comes from the album artwork of their 1973 LP History of the Grateful Dead, Volume 1 (Bear’s Choice). Joining that exclusive group is the Grateful Dead, the NorCal-founded influential rock band that for over half a century has packed arenas. ![]() This year alone, we’ve seen the fat-tongued modern marvel brought before the eyes of major brand entities such as Ben & Jerry’s, Travis Scott, and even 7-Eleven, solidifying the sneaker as one of the most relevant yet hard-to-attain kicks on the scene. ![]() Nike SB has been carefully selecting its partners since 2002, but most have been comprised of skate-shops and artists. What has separated this particular year from the entire previous history of the SB Dunk is the collaborations. ![]()
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