As has been covered several times here, Nike Sportswear collaborated with eight cyclists from the world over to create their own unique Nike Air Zoom Tiempo in the vein of their style and/or their city. We’ve seen a handful of them so far, in fact just saw the release of Lance Armstrong’s “Mellow Johnny’s” edition, and now we’ve got a peek at more. The Nike Air Zoom Tiempo “Artoo” edition, designed by the Berlin-based Artoo (aka Henrik Kuerschner), features an all white upper with most of the design-attention paid to the stitching of the shoes. The reasoning? From Artoo himself:
so i sat here and wondered what hadn’t been done to a shoe and came up with: nothing, since everything had been done already to footwear. well i sat there and looked outside the window and the cyclists left their tracks in the snow. so i came up with the idea to do something to the stitching, to leave different marks on the shoe as if different riders had left their tracks on it. so here it is. love it or hate it, it’s done. the artoo
Via HypeBeast.com, I’ll update a release date as soon as it becomes available. And check out the “London to Paris” documentary about the riders who designed the shoes and then rode the over-200-mile trek from England to France on fixed-gear bicycles. I presume Artoo features heavily in the film.