A comprehensive breakdown of one of Nike’s most coveted sneaker silhouettes.
A simplistic design, a balanced color-blocking, extreme versatility in its shape and style – the Nike Dunk is one of the most collectible silhouettes on the market today. Basketball shoe turned skateboarding staple, the Dunk has enjoyed a full-force revival in the year 2020 and 2021, surpassing its original purpose as a college hoop sneaker by a long shot. Yet, one thing has remained the same: the Dunk’s incredible ability to unify art, fashion, music and popular culture into one seamless whole, consistently acting as a shoe for several subcultures worldwide.
The Dunk’s history is not linear, instead branching out into several smaller stories. This has made its tale incredibly rich. A large puzzle piece in its unusual evolution is the partitioning of the Nike Dunk and the Nike SB Dunk lines, two different trainers for two varying lifestyles. To the casual wearer, the small tweaks to the SB’s design meant very little. To the skateboarder, it was everything. While this can naturally make it difficult to tackle both the Nike Dunk and Nike SB Dunk in one cohesive story, it’s important that the two stories are woven together, along with the addition of the Nike Dunk Pro B and Nike Dunk CO.JP models. The four trajectories are anything but mutually exclusive.
Firmly recognized for its performance and street style today, the Nike Dunk and Nike SB Dunk has taken advantage of its own cachet and made an enormous resurgence in the contemporary day. A report from StockX had revealed that Nike’s SB Dunk became the new silhouette to break resale records on the marketplace in 2020, with its value increasing by more than 300%. Even the mainline, non-collaborative pairs are selling out instantly, regardless of whether they’re High or Low, Nike or Nike SB. In today’s limelight, each and every Nike Dunk iteration is a pot of gold.
We’re taking a deep dive into the silhouette, and are celebrating the sneakers’ 35-year history, exploring its complicated and colorful timeline, the reason for the silhouettes resurgence, the individuals that helped position the Dunk as an icon of skate, streetwear, creativity and one-of-a-kind designs, and of course, the Dunk’s impact on sneaker history and sneaker culture as a whole.
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