Nike + iPod Collaboration !!!

Rewind...
With the launch of the Nike Air Max 95 it seemed as if a new era of footwear had begun. In he following years one iconic style after the other was launched and frenetically celebrated by sneaker enthusiasts: Zoom Flight 95, Footscape, Air Rift, Kukini, Air Max 97, Presto & Presto Roam, Woven. The highlight and perfectly adequate shoe to be stepping into the new millennium with was the Nike Air Flightposite. All the signs pointed towards the future and with every year, design and technology was pushed further. Performance-based footwear crossed over into lifestyle. People picked up athletic shoes for their progressive design, the technology as well as for the comfort, the three key aspects of successful performance footwear.

Then, it all stopped. Someone pushed "Rewind" and kept the finger on the button... for a very very long time... During the past five to six years, the discussion about sneakers has been circling around the terms "retro" and "re-issue". Even though all-around, technology was progressing, in the world of sneakers everything went backwards. While people were discussing the design of technologically advanced cars, motorcycles, or the beloved cell-phones, talking about a shoe meant talking about a material or just a colorway.
And talk there was – and still is – a lot.

While people who are interested in and collect cars also drive them, while people who love electronics use their phones and computers, people who have been getting into the 'game' of
sneakers have been taught the opposite of what shoes were originally meant and made for: to be worn. Through the never-ending series of sneaker exhibitions, through the millions of threads on the innumerable sneaker foums, through high-profile ebay auctions and misguided individuals, paying insane amounts of money, one very clear signal was set, one message conveyed: "do not wear!".

Technology put to a halt, sneakers hidden in closets, turned into "art", a lot of talk but no action... so why exactly are we still interested? Because something had to happen.