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True to Virgil Abloh's wide-ranging and open source take on product development and modification, the Nike x Off-White Blazer low brings together a multi-disciplinary, multi-sport aesthetic. While exploring Nike's archives, Abloh became inspried by iconic basketball, skate boarding and trail running silhouttes, and started to reconsider their shapes and features in new light.
By bringing together multiple shorts and silhouttes, this Blazer low's distinct makeup underscores Abloh's design language. Through collaborative design sessions and via text message threads - One of Virgil's favorite places to work - with Nike's design team, he became focused on "mixing languages for a new signature," emphasizing how that happens when unrelated elements are brought together unexpectedly. Abloh and his team executed his thought process through the standout TPU heel piece that sits atop the Blazor Low, which draws inspiration frim the Air Terra Humara's classice heel shape. Toe even get to this radical point, at one stage during the design sessions, Abloh directly asked: "Can we... splice the real Humara tooling and fuse it into vulcanized sole? "This kind of playful verve for new opportunities is what allowed for new possibilities, and with it, the Off-White Blazer Low.
Signature Nike x Off-White detailing completes the shoe, inlcuding an accented over lace, swoosh tab, exposed foam tounge, and punched-out holes, offering a utilitarian, DIY attitude to a sneaker designed with expert craft, knowledge, and a passion for pushing boundaries.
