I’ve seen no less than a thousand posts of these Jordan V's over the past two days...
emember, StockX has already facilitated the sale of 600+ pairs of these BEFORE their actual release. And they’re considered the ‘authority’ on authentication? Amazing.
Y’all know that the other god of the sneaker kingdom, @virgilabloh, has a design principle that is noted as follows: “A new design can be created by changing an original by only 3 percent.’
Being real here - I really don’t care for any of these off-white shoes. I don’t get it. I look at these and I think ‘man, these would fall apart on me in less than a week.' I mean, sure, there’s a couple of them that I think look cool (like that pumpkin colored AM 90 and maybe the Presto one), but I’m just a bit taken aback with all of the attention (and money spent) on these Nike x @off____white shoes.
I’ve graded something like 50-100 pairs of ‘The Ten’, and the quality on these shoes is horrendous. I know I’m gonna get a smart ass in here saying something like ‘duh, that’s the point.’ Is it? I thought the point was to show a ‘deconstructed’ shoe. Not a shoe that is put together shoddily.
I do find it interesting that the design principle above looks to be appropriately used in these collaborations - not all that much is different from the original. I’d argue it’s a bit more than 3%, but that’s really not important. I do find it funny how much of a pass these shoes are given, though, compared to others incorporating similar principles. These shoes are given so much of a pass that many of them are reselling for 30x retail.
So...back to all of these homages, satires, and ironic (dong) shoes that keep falling from the sky - surely they’re more than 3% different than the originals? Especially since they all have the swoosh being replaced...that’s gotta be worth more than 3%, right? For WL...if he added some pre-aging to the shoes, if he added some flames to the swoosh...if he added a machete (or chainsaw or whateverthefunk Jason used to kill people with) to the Jason mask would he have been given a pass? I’m really just trying to figure out why people are so opinionated about WL…