Designed for all genders, Nina Chanel Abney’s new collaboration with Nike’s Jordan brand sees the contemporary artist applying her signature style to basketball iconography. Though all the bright, bold pieces in the capsule collection inspire (including the covetable Air Jordan High and Low 2 SE), the hoodie, with puff-print graphics on cozy fleece fabric, is certainly a highlight. Chanel Abney grew up in Chicago and …
Sneakersnstuff uses three Jordan Brand silhouettes to represent their 20-year history, as well as the story of Rui Hachimura, the first Japan-born player drafted into the NBA. Though the 21-year-old Washington Wizards power forward doesn’t have a signature shoe of his own, he inked a deal with the sneaker giant just before the start of his rookie season. With nods to Japan’s red rising sun, …
It’s early morning in Jordan’s Wadi Rum and we’re loading our gear into the fleet of Infiniti QX80s, backed by only the sounds coming from doors opening and closing shut, and feet shuffling silently in the red sand. Despite the bright LED lights of our fleet SUVs, an observatory’s worth of glowing stars remain visible above, shining down in the pre-dawn desert. As I sit …
