To welcome the Chinese Lunar New Year, Nike has teamed up with Clot to launch the lucky-red inspired Nike x CLOT Air Force 1, the auspicious addition to the Nike 1World AF1 Project that features a total of 18 influential style leaders in sports, music, art and design. The Nike Clot Air Force 1 pays tribute to the themes of luck, happiness and prosperity - as represented by the color red - which prevail during traditional Chinese Lunar New Year celebrations. The Nike Clot Air Force 1 will be available on 16th January 2009, for a suggested retail price of HK$2800 (Hong Kong) or RMB2800 (China), exclusively for JUICE and ACU.
Special features of the Nike Clot Air Force 1 include: • an upper-shoe made from red Clot Royale Deluxe Silk, the most recognizable Chinese-made textile, with embroidered trademark Clot graphics inspired by thousand-year-old Chinese prints;
• the red upper-shoe top layer can actually be peeled, burned or torn off to reveal a bottom layer made from dark brown leather. Clot’s trademark Chinese-print graphics, as embroidered onto the silk upper layer, are lasered onto this durable leather layer;
• a sockliner inspired by traditional green-and-white paper; • contrasting black colorway, with a matte-black leather details and black shoelaces.
The highlight peel-off double-layer design feature was created to inspire people to seek beyond the superficial, to search for what lies within. The Clot design team explains: “We need to remember to never judge simply by what you see.” The Nike Clot Air Force 1 comes in a special “Chinese Candy Box” packaging set. Traditionally, Lunar New Year celebrations include offering sweets and other edible treats from a red lacquer box to ensure a “sweet” year. Honoring this custom, the Nike Clot Air Force 1 packaging is a hexagonal red box with a partitioned tray layer, to hold shoe accessories, and matching lid. The box’s exterior is adorned with Clot graphics in black.
Nike Sportswear are several new items from their 2009 Spring/Summer collection. New products include the DRI-FIT The Standard Tee, the Beta Tech Fullzip Hoodie and finally a collaboration with fragment design on the Nike Footscape model. Coming in two colors, the Nike Footscape X Fragment Design will feature a Fragment logo on the back heel tab. Available soon at the Honeyee Store.
NKFRK wish you a blessed and prosperous new year. May you and your family have a wonderful and healthy year ahead and may all your dreams and wishes come true!
Minimally branded product Nike’s L.I.S (Life Is Sports) line offers a more playful approach to their usually technically geared aesthetics. Two new items have released including a backpack and sling shoulder bag, both combining two-tone colorways with black accenting. The vibrant pieces are complimented by a multitude of hidden compartments and asymmetrical zippers. Retail is set at 9500yen for the backpack, 6900yen for the sling & 8300yen for the sling shoulder bag, with both now available at ripe Japan.
Following in the footsteps of the recently released Court Force High Lux, the Velcro Blazer Lux is recognizable by a few distinct characteristics: A basic and wearable color palette built with premium materials. Using a soft and supple premium full grain leather, these sneakers are the definition of quiet sophistication.
Nike Snowboarding announced the signature collection for pro snowboarder, Danny Kass. In collaboration with Seattle-base artist Arbito, well-known for his vivid hallucinogenic paintings. The Danny Kass Zoom Force 1 (DK-YS) has decidedly psychedelic look, filled with an all-over color dreamscape which harks back to the likes of Peter Max and Beattle’s Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band. The boots, also known as Double Tongue, feature dual “tongues” to ensure ground clearance for snowboard pants when a boarder is not riding. In addition, the collection will also include a light weight shell and t-shirts in black or white, all adorned with YS graphics. The Danny Kass Zoom Force 1 Snowboarding Boots, along with coordinating apparels, will be available at selected sporting goods retailers in the coming weeks.
Special features of the Nike Clot Air Force 1 include: 
The highlight peel-off double-layer design feature was created to inspire people to seek beyond the superficial, to search for what lies within. The Clot design team explains: “We need to remember to never judge simply by what you see.” The Nike Clot Air Force 1 comes in a special “Chinese Candy Box” packaging set. Traditionally, Lunar New Year celebrations include offering sweets and other edible treats from a red lacquer box to ensure a “sweet” year. Honoring this custom, the Nike Clot Air Force 1 packaging is a hexagonal red box with a partitioned tray layer, to hold shoe accessories, and matching lid. The box’s exterior is adorned with Clot graphics in black.
Nike along side Undercover and fragment design has released the already shown navy Match Classic HF with newer colors of white and black. Suede materials for the upper part of the shoe, all three of the companies logos aligned on the side of the soles. The Nike Sportswear store in Shibuya and Undercover stores in has all 3 colors for the price of 16800yen (approximately $186 USD) each. 
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