After a brief preview of one of the main styles on Vogue, the first images of Riccardo Tisci's collaboration with Nike were unveiled on the designer's Instagram page. The fashion media welcomed the collaboration with the routine enthusiasm and with the grand and magniloquent words that usually accompany such collaborations.
The range includes low-cut and knee-high designs: Tisci reinvented one of the most famous styles produced by Nike, the Air Force 1, using multi-coloured bands to decorate the shoes. The designs will be available in four versions: Low, High, Mid and Boot. The mid-calf and knee-high styles are Tisci's inventions apparently and the media have already praised the rather bizarre Nike Air Force 1 Boot, a combination of Bruce Kilgore's classic 1982 basketball design and a leather boot. Shame this concept already existed.
Sneakers and knee-high boot combos may not be knew in sportswear (and in fashion we have seen a lot of high-top sneakers in Rick Owens' collections): a while back Nike designed custom-made knee-high boots (that were actually sneakers with a detachable leg section) for Serena Williams, but in that case they had the purpose of helping the athlete warming up on court before the match and there was no proper leather boot included.
In 2011 a young student from he Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague, Karolína Juríková, took part in a project in collaboration with the Bata company. The young designer combined classic Bata Bullets sneakers with a pair of riding boots.
From that first idea she developed further styles that became part of her Spring/Summer 2012 collection called "Speeding Bullet". You could argue that Tisci's sneakers and the "Bullets" don't look exactly the same since the Nike designs have laces that go up the boot and coloured bands as well, but the main idea is definitely there.
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