"Virgil Abloh. Nike. Icons." Book

Bringing together all the greats-from Air Jordan 1 to Air Presto-Nike and Virgil Abloh reinvent sneaker culture with the collaborative project The Ten and redesign 10 sneaker icons. Experience engineering ingenuity and Abloh & apos;s investigative design process: each shoe is a piece of industrial design, a readymade sculpture, and a wearable all at once.The book documents Abloh & apos;s cooperative way of working and reaffirms the power of print. For its design Nike and Abloh partnered with the acclaimed London-based design studio Zak Group. Together they conceived a two-part compendium, equal parts catalog and conceptual toolbox. The first part of the book presents a visual culture of sneakers while a lexicon in the second part defines the key people, places, objects, ideas, materials, and scenes from which the project grew. Texts by Nike & apos;s Nicholas Schonberger, writer Troy Patterson, curator and historian Glenn Adamson, and Virgil Abloh himself frame the collaborative work within fashion and design history. A foreword by Hiroshi Fujiwara places the project within the historical continuum of Nike collaborators.Hardcover; Swiss binding.Approx. 10" x 11.7".352 pages.Weight: 5.12 lbs.Made in Italy.