Nike is always looking for new ways to innovate, and what’s the point of having subordinate companies if you can’t draw from their technology and product line? At the recent World Basketball Festival, Nike debuted the first ever collaboration between Nike, Jordan Brand and Converse, an Air Max basketball shoe with some similarities to the [...]

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The thing with Converse, as it pertains to new basketball shoes, is that, being owned by Nike, they must have access to all the technology in the Innovation Kitchen, but they don’t always take advantage of it. Perhaps they’re starting to go a different direction however, because the upcoming Converse Star Player appears to mix [...]

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This topic was briefly touched upon a couple of weeks ago, but now it seems that a release date is imminent for the HUF x Nike Blazer Mid Canvas SB, the hybrid of the classic Blazer and the iconic Chuck Taylor with a dash of that HUF flair. The Nike SB Blazer “Chuck Taylor” will [...]

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I suppose this seemed inevitable when Nike bought Converse a few years back, but we’re finally going to see a crossover between one of the Nike’s iconic silhouettes and THE sneaker icon. The Nike Blazer SB Chuck Taylor All-Star sports an all canvas upper—as you’d expect from a Chuck-inspired shoe—a vulcanized rubber midsole that is [...]

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… you know, Chuck Taylors. As part of the (PRODUCT) RED campaign to eliminate AIDS in Africa, Lupe Fiasco and Dr. Romanelli go together to create a very unique Converse All-Star. The shoe looks like the traditional Chuck Taylor, except rather than canvas the upper is completely patent leather, and the usually-black line is red, [...]

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