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Dunk High
NIKE DUNK HIGH : Timeless hightop
NIKE DUNK HIGH : HIS HISTORY
In the early 1980s, the basketball shoe market was largely dominated by Adidas, thanks to exclusive contracts with legendary players like Kareem Abdul-Jabbar And Converse who almost had the market monopoly with its All Star Chuck Taylor and its emblematic muses such as Larry Bird And Magic Johnson. It was in 1985 that Nike, initially known for its models running such as the Waffle Trainer and the Cortez, decides to tackle the basketball parquets with the Nike Dunk Low And High. She calls on Peter Moore, footwear designer who will conceive the Nike Dunk. His name comes from the spectacular movement or the player makes a jump high enough to make a tap in order to bring the ball into the basket's hoop without leaving the ball in the hand. The objective? Support players from the largest basketball university teams. An exclusivity contract is then signed between the equipment supplier and the following universities: theUniversity of the'Iowa, of Syracuse, of St. John, of Kentucky, of Georgetown, of Michigan and theUNLV. Seven Nike Dunk High are therefore presented in the pack Be True to your School. 14 years later in 1999, the Swoosh brand decided to bring out the pack by adding exclusive colors specific to certain areas through the globe. It was in 2001 that Nike Introduced the collection CO.JP, limited edition colors only available at Japan. A real frenzy of the Dunk Then moved to Sneakerheads around the world.
Collaborations on NIKE DUNK HIGH
In 2002, the Beaverton equipment supplier realized the impact of sneakers Dunk Low And Dunk High on the world of skateboarding and creates the division Nike Skateboarding more commonly called Nike Sb. The particular of the silhouettes of this new range is in its technological innovations. An insole in the cushioning Zoom Air comes to set up on all the models in the range as well as a padded tab for optimal comfort during the tricks. The objective of Nike ? Become a real reference in skate culture just as it is in basketball and football. To succeed in charming the niche, the creative teams of SB have joined forces with emblematic figures of the environment in order to offer the most original collaborations. We can notably mention the pack Supreme High Series from 2003 composed of three Dunk High Pro SB in Varisty color Red, University Blue and college Orange. Their upper had a grained leather imitation crocodile skin as well as a deubré Supreme Goldly granted to the stars on the stem. The SB section will collaborate in particular with musical artists such as the emblematic rap group SOUL who will have the right to his Dunk Low SB and a Dunk High SB like the late MF Doom. In 2010, the label Fragment Design D'Hiroshi Fujiwara offered us the City Pack comprising three Dunk High Respectively dedicated to New York, London and Beijing. The latter will experience a reissue in 2021. The same year, Korean designer Yoon Anh reveals her aerodynamic reinterpretation of the sneakers from 1985 with the colors Black White, Deep Royal Blue, Cosmic Fuchsia and Flash Lime via the prism of its brand AMBUSH.
The most trendy colors of the DUNK HIGH
The iconic basketball was exploded in 2020 thanks to the reissues of the colors OG on the version Dunk Low and the version Dunk High. Kentucky's retro edition Blue Game Royal, there Syracuse White Orange, there Panda Black and White And University Red. They will become must-have for lovers of sneakers and succeed in seducing the youngest thanks to the Rebel editions and their design revisited. Conversely, Nike will unveil for purists its range Dunk High 1985. This version is distinguished from the others because it takes on exactly the same structure as the sneakers made in the 80s. They are adorned with faded upper that illustrates the relic aspect of the vintage model. An oversized sole with an aged look as well as a thick leather refine the special edition which asserts itself as a real ode to basketball of the 80s.
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