Well the question came up way earlier than I anticipated so I’m giving y’all the answer way earlier than I had planned…Yes, I’m aware that this is an Air Max 90 and an Air Max is clearly not an SB...
I don’t know the real story - maybe @123dortiz can enlighten us - but from what I guessed: Dave, the owner of Dave’s Quality Meats (a skate shop in New York in the early 2000’s), was given the chance to design a shoe (along with a number of other Skate brands at the time) and for some reason he chose the Air Max 90. So in that sense - a running shoe colorway DESIGNED by a skater at a skate shop - makes some sense. Every other skate brand chose a dunk to collaborate on...no one else in that space really messed with Air Maxes at the time. Which is probabyl why this Air Max 90 is considered by many to be in the top 5 AM90’s ever created: an unconventional pairing made this one really pop.
That small pivot - a skate brand doing an Air Max - had ME convinced that Air Maxes were going to be ‘the next big thing’ after Dunks and every skate shop would be doing collabs. Obviously it didn’t totally pan out that way, but my imagination ran wild after that small little shift - sneakers no longer had to ‘make perfect sense’ to be ‘dope’.
I included the DQM 90 because it will ALWAYS be synonymous with the SBs and Dunks of that Era TO ME (and I’m sure to quite a few others, as well) - If you’re not satisfied with that answer - feel free to build your own set 😂
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