Cool Hunting

Nike 1984 Tier 0 Olympic Pack
With the Beijing Olympic Games just around the corner, it's only fitting that Nike release a pack of sneakers celebrating various Chinese Olympic Athletes from the past. Featuring traditional Chinese colors with some Olympic accents, I especially like the Air Max 1 version. Other silhouettes in the pack include the Blazer Low, Dunk Trainer High, Vintage Nylon Cortez, Court High Force and Wildwood90 Free...

AKA x NikeiD Charity Auction Nears $15,000
On 10 May 2006 Also Known As put seven pairs of NikeiD patent leather Dunk Lo's on Ebay in an auction to benefit Free Arts NYC. The bidding has already reached $14,800 with over 100 bids! The colors were inspired by vintage spray paint and the sneakers made exclusively for AKA, the New York based graf art collective. Free Arts NYC is a non-profit...

Nike Stash and Futura Dunk
255, the Nike iD boutique in Manhattan's Nolita, typically plays host to a small group of invited guests. Sometimes, though, larger parties are thrown. Such was the case a couple months back when Stash and Futura brought along 30 friends. That night the graf artist and the shop keep designed a shoe together and even made a logo to go along with it. And...

Shin Tanaka's Paper AF1s @ Vacant Chi
Opening July 25th, the Chicago branch of Vacant presents the U.S. debut of paper Air Force Ones created by graffiti artist/web designer/sneaker head/funny man Shin Tanaka. We've teamed up with Vacant on this one to include a selection of reader designed Cool Hunting AF1s. So download this template, tweak it out and send it to us by 22 July at paperAF1 [at] coolhunting [dot]...

Generic Man Sportman Sneakers
My latest sneaker purchase, the Sportsman by Generic Man, have all the aesthetic qualities of a great sneaker with high-end materials and production methods to match. Using an almost imperceptibly subtle faux reptile skin (textured white Italian leather) and handmade in Portugal, the look perfectly toes the line between dress and sport. (Click images for detail view.) Based in Los Angeles with a small...