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his article is presented by Nike as part of Air Max Month, which celebrates the enduring New Balance 574 Femme legacy of the Air Max. It originally appeared on VICE Australia.
Since being introduced in 1987, Nike's Air Max range has truly transcended its original role as a running shoe, stomping from street stoops to runways with Adidas Gazelle Donnasupreme confidence. The sneakers have become signifiers of cultural clout across the globe—whether it's the Japanese preference for Air Max 95 or the Italian obsession with Air Max 97—and continue to build momentum as more bubbly iterations are released into the urban wilderness. Still, while Air Max have been adopted by countless tribes over the years, the sneakers have become inextricably interwoven with Adidas ZX Flux Donne the world of hip-hop.
Melbourne DJ Yo! Mafia has been collecting sneakers for over 30 years, and attributes hip-hop's love for Air Max to its groundbreaking design. Back in 1987, the Air Max 1 arrived a brazen Adidas ZX Flux Womens Black red swoosh and a visible air unit inspired by the Pompidou's exposed construction, completely unprecedented in the world of runners.
Mafia says that Tinker Hatfield's head-turning creation aligns with the subculture'Asics Gel Lyte 3 Dames s outcast mentality: "Hip-hop isn't the type of culture to want to blend into the crowd. We like our shit on show, so what better way than to bust out a clear bubble of air jammed right into the heel of the midsole, breaking necks as we hit the pavement?"
For Mafia, the "diggin' in the crates" mentality championed by DJs to discover new music served a double purpose, like killing two birds with one stylish stone. Nike Cortez Femme "I used to work at a second-hand record store as a vinyl buyer and grader, and the amount of dope covers I'd see from early '90s hip-hop, R&B and new jack swing releases with Air Max featured prominently on New Balance 580 Damen the cover art was phenomenal. I made it my mission to find all those Air Max that I'd seen on those covers," she tells VICE.
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