Wooohah!: Kanye West designs Nike Air Kanye West sneakers

Mar 07, 2008

Kanye West designs Nike Air Kanye West sneakers

The online sneaker community was buzzing after Kanye's Grammy's performance last month in which he wore what appeared to be a custom pair of Nike Airs shown here. While there have been many false alarms to a Kanye West Nike signature shoe, more recent evidence suggests that the Nike Air Kanye West will soon be a reality and not an exclusive one of one.

As many sneaker sites have reported, Kanye recently told the NY Times "I had on a pair of Nikes too, but I can’t talk about those because they’re not out yet.” And then we have this photo above of Kanye sketching away at shoe designs while on the Nike Air Jet flying out Nike headquarters in Oregon. If Kanye was just designing a custom shoe he could have gone to the Los Angeles Nike studios called Room 72. Going all the way to headquarters in Oregon can only mean one thing....

What you think? If Kanye does have a signature Nike shoe he would be the first Nike non athlete with a signature shoe line. Is this the right move for Nike?

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Man dont get my hopes up. This is just like them Back to the future Kanye sneaks that everyone was talking about too. So I'm not falling for it again until I see them at Undefeated

Posted by: E-Rod | Mar 07, 2008 at 09:52 AM

So then you are saying this would be like the Jordans or the Melos where it is a whole line and not just one sneaker design? It might be a good move for Nike just cuz all the competitors are doing it as well. But Kanye can get crazy with his designs so it gotta be not TOO crazy that it turns people off

Posted by: TARN | Mar 07, 2008 at 10:18 AM

I dont see what the big deal is. I think the ones he wore at the Grammys are ugly to begin with.

Posted by: | Mar 07, 2008 at 10:55 AM

NIKE FAM NEED TO DO THIS TO GET MORE WITH STREET CULTURE AND GIT MORE THAT MARKET!

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