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If you're bored of camo and Nike Roshe Runs, then this isn't the release for you. We're somewhere in the middle right now, but we can't deny that tiger stripes on this shoe work pretty well. Next month should see the release of some Camo Nike Air Max editions (including two UK editions) that will re-up camouflage and AM hype again with their flooded uppers and matching camo boxes, but the arrival of these should cause ...

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As rivalries go, the Knicks-Celtics one takes some beating, just as the Knicks took some beatings during the 1980s, while the Celtics got those victories with Larry on board. A rookie called Patrick made all the difference though and — possibly stung by not getting MJ on board — adidas' Ewing endorsement deal resulted in some of the greatest basketball shoes ever. This adidass Originals reissue of the Rivalry Lo is a thing of beauty that sits with the shoe's history ...

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It's the Nike Pegasus series' 30th anniversary this year and it's a model that's getting some retro and remix love in 2013. The whole Pegasus line always had spinoffs (the Pegasus Plus, Pegasus GT, Pegasus A/T and Pegasus Racer were all fine additions to the series) but between 1994 and 2008, we couldn't get excited about many of the sequels that dropped. For the shoe's 25th birthday it got an okayish reissue (that had ...

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The Nike Air Revolution is a shoe that lived up to the bombastic pre-blog hype of being the first ever basketball shoe with visible air. Back in 1988, this shoe arrived to mess with the minds of the people (it's odd that they never got a good preview in the 1987 TV campaign that used the Beatles song of the same name) and it's a great example of gimmickry gone right and the best shock-absorbing shock to the ...

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New Balance are doing a good job of proving that there's a world that exists far beyond the same old handful of shoe boutiques with their current collaborations. Taiwan's Invincible store has been putting it down for NB longer than most, down to hosting an exhibition dedicated to the MT580 half a decade ago (that's before the MT580 became commonplace) so it makes sense that they've pooled their minds to create the New Balance M1400INV. We ...

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For all his hyper competitive ways, we don't think Kobe Bryant wants to battle Jordan in the shoe stakes. Whereas MJ willfully let Nike's finest minds alter his shoes dramatically with each instalment, Kobe has the genius mind of Eric Avar on deck but opts to deliver riffs on a low cut theme that works for him. We think LeBron wants that MJ shoe dynasty (the eleventh edition is a Jordan-esque switch in styles completely) but Kobe knows ...

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There's not a lot you can do with a Converse Jack Purcell is there? Sure, you can hurl a pattern on the canvas, but for the most part you're pretty tethered. Somehow, the folks at the justly famed Ferrera-based Slam Jam boutique (and distributor) and SOCIALISM webstore have brought a lot of extra detail to this model. When we first saw press shots of this shoe, we didn't realise the level of alterations beyond the red take ...

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We won't deny that after the Superstar35 campaign we got bored of the shelltoe pretty quickly. After that one, there were a few iterations flying around until the Superstar 80s emerged (which we believe was heavily assisted by a former Crooked Tongues mainman) and we took an interest again. Then it dwindled again. Like any shoe, it was the death of the hunt and subsequent ubiquity that diminished appeal. In the early 1990s we tried our best to hunt ...

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Before anyone mentions it, these have been out for a minute already, but an embargo has shut down what we wanted to showcase today. And it's always worth looking at an American-made NB design because they absolutely annihilate the competition in terms of quality and the faithfulness of the retro. The New Balance M996RRG is no exception and the M996 seems to have been ignored in comparison to other costly classics like the M990 and M1300 that are flourishing ...

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The Nike Free Run+ 2 seemed to capture the imaginations of a new generation of runners, cool kids and #menswear douches alike when it first arrived, with that blue and orange colourway being ubiquitous in parts of NYC for a summer. What was unique about this 2011 release was its induction into the Nike Sportswear line quickly (usually a zone dominated by 1980s and 1990s innovation), with some reworkings for a city audience that switched up the fabrics and applied ...

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