Last night at 1948 we hosted a very special basketball event. Commemorating the release of the Foamposite One Galaxy edition, we invited a handful of basketball enthusiasts down to the space to watch a game and gave them the opportunity to purchase one of the most coveted basketball shoes of recent years.
Anyone familiar with Tom Sachs scrappy make-it-yourself sculpture (some call it bricolage) might find the idea of him collaborating with the biggest sporting goods brand on the planet, in the universe, an unlikely partnership. What he, as an artist, considers a large edition size, Nike runs off in prototypes testing iterations of a new sneaker. [...]
It’s been an eventful few days at 1948 London, with the final drop of the HTM FlyKnit Series, brand new Flyknit installation, RDC awards ceremony and screening and Q&A of Town Of Runners.
Watch the powerhouse duo that is Hiroshi Fujiwara and Mark Parker explain further about the innovative HTM Flyknit collection they have created alongside Tinker Hatfield.
On Sunday 22nd April Nike presented the much-anticipated second release of the HTM Flyknit collection.
Filmed over four years, Town of Runners is an intimate and touching portrait of young athletes from the town of Bekoji, Ethiopia.
Meet Colleen Meier, full time sports therapist and the teacher behind the Yoga Flex classes.
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