Today I experienced one of the best (and weirdest) sneaker releases I’ve ever seen. In 2012, Tom Sachs collaborated with Nike on the Mars Yard Shoe, a ridiculous sneaker composed of outsoles borrowed from the Nike SFB and Vectran fabric from the Mars Excursion Rover airbags. It was also ridiculously limited and fetches some crazy prices on eBay. The shoe’s fatal flaw was its outsole, which supposedly cracked pretty easily and caused the shoe to break down from relatively normal wear-and-tear. After five years, Nike and Tom Sachs brought the shoe back as the Mars Yard Shoe 2.0. A new design supposedly fixes the problems with the old shoe and makes it the rugged yard-work-on-Mars shoe it’s meant to be. The shoe is being released in New York and London during special events designed by Tom Sachs and will later be released online in early July. I was lucky enough to get a reservation for the Nike event through the Nike Events page. The event was quite the experience.
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