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John Elliott is having the kind of year where good news is followed almost immediately by more good news. For starters, lavonjarg.de there’s Elliott’s current hot streak with Nike: so far this year he’s released a shoe made in collaboration with the Swoosh and his pal and NBA superstar LeBron James, and Nike Roshe Run Mujer then his redesign of the iconic Air Force 1. Then he put on fashion week’s most fun show: Justin Bieber and Hailey Baldwin were there, along with James. They were joined by Pete Adidas Ultra Boost Dames Davidson, Ben Simmons, and Whoopi Goldberg in the front row. Now, Elliott is teaming up with Nike again.
The Nike Vandal is an Elliott favorite—a sneaker designed for basketball that he skated in as a kid growing up in Northern California, and initially put his spin on in early 2017. While the Vandal, first unveiled in 1984, is a classic silhouette, it’s not necessarily a hot shoe in a landscape dominated by sleek runners and chunky dad shoes. Vandals, he explains, “were cool in 1984 Adidas Superstar Donne and they're still cool now,” Elliott says.
This is all of a piece with the larger JE project: the designer makes clothes that guys, like Bieber, but also all the dudes who claim Nike Air Max 90 Damen Scott Disick as their one true style icon, want to wear. And Elliott is doing something slightly revolutionary in 2018 with these Vandals, too: he’s making shoes not to be bought and flipped to the highest bidder or kept somewhere on a shelf, but to be worn. Elliott spoke to GQ about his new shoe, his big fans, and his wild year.
For me the thing about the Vandal is that it's definitely nostalgic and very much authentic to my personal style. When I first sat down with [Nike's senior director of www.heryarts.fr influencer marketing] Fraser Cooke in Tokyo, that was the first shoe that I really wanted to work on. And it's because as a teen I really made that silhouette my own and I incorporated it into my own wardrobe. Fast forward 15, 20 years later it was just a no-brainer. I was dying to take what our brand is about, which is typically materials Nike Air Force 1 Damen and clean lines, and try to incorporate that into my favorite silhouette.I want to get your take on where you feel it fits in in today's sneaker landscape because a lot of what we see, especially coming out of Nike are these sleek runner—something like a Vapormax or a React Element 87—and then on the other side of the spectrum there are these crazy Balenciaga Triple S’s so I wonder where you see the Vandal.
Those are sneakers of the moment and that's fine. The most challenging element of working Nike Air VaporMax Mujer on the Air Force 1 [that Elliott recently released] was convincing myself that we should actually do that. Because the Air Force One is as close to a perfect shoe as Nike Air Huarache Femme there is. It's so culturally iconic. My mom knows an Air Force 1. So to me the Air Force 1 and the Vandal, similar to the Air Jordan 1s, these are classic silhouettes that are not Nike Air Huarache Femme really of the moment. It's more something that if you were going to, say, I am gonna invest in a silhouette and I'm not gonna look at a picture of myself in 10 years and really regret the way I was dressing. You can bet on an Air Force 1. You can bet on a Vandal. You can bet on a Jordan 1. They're staples. They are classic. They were cool in 1984 and they're still cool now.