Custom Dr. Doom Nike Dunks were created by Diversitile earlier this year. This version 2.0 is very similar except for a few small changes: more action shots of Dr. Doom and these are cool in the dark. Read on to see what I mean about the dark.
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Customs made on Nike brand shoes.
REVIVE CUSTOMS: Hellraiser Nike Dunk High
Detail without going overboard. One key to a great aesthetically pleasing custom shoe is to have detailed graphics, painting, engraving but not on the entire shoe, some panels should be left one single color. That was exactly what Revive Customs did on his latest pair inspired by the movie Hellraiser. This pair was the first installment in a series dedicated to Revive’s favorite horror movie directors first was Cliver Barker. The amount of detail on these are incredible. One part that would look awesome as the lone feature of a shoe is the muscle tissue pattern on the upper heel.
DC Howard Dunk Low Hybrid By Hush Fabrications
Amazing. I thought about looking up a fancier word to describe the latest from custom shoe by Hush Fabrications but I gave up. I’m even afraid to ask Hush how he made them. Are they just a skin over the Dunk or a full “decon-recon”? I think it is better if they are a complete mystery. Complete with cowskin suede, ballistic mesh, and 3m reflective accents Hush recreated the DC Howard low skate shoe upper onto a Dunk sole. They look factory made, not by hand. Hush even used eyelets from Air Max 1s and added his H logo on the tongue and heels. Honestly customizers….your really not doing it if you are not doing some form of “decon and recon”.
Story behind Dunk Force 1’s by The Sole Seeker
Earlier this week Gabe aka The Sole Seeker had a certain customizing forum’s attention when he posted his Nike “Blue Lobster” Dunk SB with a Nike Air Force 1 sole. This has been seen before at sneaker shows notably the Supreme Dunk SB with AF1 sole sticks out in my mind as one of the first to cause a stir. Though they had all been made by Nike. This is the first time a customizer has cleanly presented the finished sole swap as a custom. Not that other people have not or could not, it just has not been seen. So I contacted Gabe for more on the story behind his sole swapping venture:
What inspired you to attempt this customizing of switching uppers and soles of Dunks and AF1?
The inspiration came from 2 things, Chi McBride and a pair of Jordan Six Rings I did. I’ve been in the shoe game since ‘95 and my favorite shoe is the Space Jam AJ XI so when the 6 rings dropped I wanted a Space Jam colorway since they looked relatively alike. So I took a Concord and Bred 6 rings and mated the Bred upper to the Concord bottom and made my own Space Jam 6 Rings. I did not wanna just paint the concord upper cause I wanted it to look original so that’s what started the whole Decon-Recon thing for me and once I saw the Chi McBride photo of his Unkle Dunk SB highs x AF1 bottoms I had to have it, so out of necessity my Dunk Force 1 or DF-1 were created.
emmanueLabor: Air Jordan Space Jam Air Force 1 aka Air Force 11
Arguably the greatest Air Jordan has yet to be truly bastardized and run into the ground by Nike/Jordan Brand. The silhouette is a classic defining shoe for the brand and greatest basketball player of all time. Recently from either their own imagination, mere coincidence, or because they copied the idea from customizers Jordan Brand has been combining or fusing “Air Jordan Fusions” with Nike Air Force 1’s. Despite the usual ugliness the shoes have sold. Which leads back to the greatest Air Jordan, the XI which have yet to be put into the extremely innovative “Fusion” form. Once again the customizer beat the big boys.
emmanueLabor recently finished up a take at what a Air Jordan XI/Air Force 1 Fusion might look like. And he did superb work keeping the major design elements of the XI and the AF1 intact: panels, tongue, curve of the patent leather, clear soles, and JUMPMAN JORDAN tags on the tongue. At the same time he put in some flare using a 3m reflective upper instead of the ballistic mesh. But if you want a pair he can do you up using that same ballistic mesh. A “Concord XI” is what I wanna see.
SBTG x Kobe Bryant x Duke Basketball Update
Actual pics of the shoes have finally surfaced. Nothing groundbreaking simple classic SBTG imagery thrown in with a imaginary Kobe Bryant Duke basketball theme. Sort of black and blue Jordan 1’esq? The wooden box with the glass cover and laser engraving takes them up many notches though.
via StreetThing
AKALAZY Nike Air Force 1 Jailbreaker (Series IV) for DJ Clark Kent
Stained, ripped, faded denim and all. Lazy recreated his Jailbreaker Dunks onto an Nike Air Force 1 too near perfection. Only thing I would change is the recreating of the Nike heel tab with yellow embroidery instead of black and they’d be perfect. The customer was someone with many pairs of Air Force 1s. Who, for some reason gets credit for having so many, like ok would not most sneaker fans have a bunch of Air Forces if they had the same amount of money to waste on shoes too? I’m sure he gets free ones from Nike too while the consumer gets nothing and a chance to pair 3 times retail for their own colorway. Basic capitalism.
Anywho these are definitely one of the better parts of that dudes collection now.
