nike lunar flyknit htm nrg

a few days after the marc jacobs x vans sk8r hi's turned up at whitfield towers.

( which was a few days after the tom sachs mars yard shoes )

this box arrived.

what the what ?!

that's three pairs on the bounce that haven't been af-1's

coincidentally, the little sticker on the box...

... has exactly the same facial expression as me when i saw the state of the queue

for yeezy wristbands outside 1948 the other week !

grrr !

ok, the reveal

don't panic. there's another shoe in there somewhere.

there you go

these are funny to be honest. like the tom sachs yard shoes you really

have to see these in real life to appreciate the genius of them.

you also need to feel them in your hands... they are probably the lightest

sneaks in my crate. possibly even lighter than my mayflys.

the soles are hi-vis yellow

and are made out of a really lightweight material.

brs 1000 ?

i've no idea

i just checked and brs 1000 is a special material designed by nike.

a rubber with a high carbon content to improve durability.

the flyknit construction is pretty amazing

the whole shoe is made out of one piece of material.

as the name suggests, it's a knitted material... a bit like something my nan

would have made if she worked for nike instead of making cardigans

which didn't fit me properly.

the swoosh is just painted on i guess

no metal eyelets or anything extra that would add weight to these bad boys.

seriously, when the box arrived and i picked it up, i thought i'd been stitched

up and been sold an empty shoe box !

they do have little heel tab things

which have a 3m coating on them, which is good for when i'm

running at night time...

what ?

nothing special with the insoles

though surely the ink used on that logo has added a little unnecessary weight

to the shoes ?

the htm in the title of the shoes ?

htm are the initials of the three designers of the shoe.

hiroshi fujiwara, tinker hatfield and mark parker.

only 100 pairs of these were made. 100 world wide !
only 14 pairs were released in the uk.

hmmm...

if you want to know more, why not take a little look at this short video

which explains about the flyknits properly.

and if you're really interested, type 'nike flyknit' into ebay !