After reworking the Nike Lunar Force 1 in 2015, a critically acclaimed Presto in 2016 and the AF1 Downtown in 2017, Errolson Hugh turned his attention to the Nike Air VaporMax Moc 2. For the latest edition of their ongoing collaboration he leaned forward. “There is absolutely nothing retro about it. It’s so forward,” he says of the shoe. “The physical aspect of it, once the laces are removed and with the elastic tongue…there is not really much that we felt we wanted to do functionally because it’s great.”
Nike Air VaporMax Flyknit Moc 2 x ACRONYM AVM-007
Eventually Errolson Hugh and his design team at Acronym® decided to focus on graphics and approach the new shoe “as a visual project.” Doing what they do best, Acronym took something ubiquitous, camouflage, mixed it with their own brands logo and came up with something unique yet hidden in plain view. “The patterning is basically the A from Acronym. It’s the original shape, and then it just gets turned into a grid. Each of the intersecting lines of the A inside the square makes the surface, and we just delete and inverse the various surfaces that result from those intersections. It makes for a kind of progression that you get these surprising shapes out of,” he says. What won’t be a surprise is the reaction. If last years AF1 Downtown launch is any indication, the Nike Air VaporMax Moc 2 x ACRONYM® release should be sold out in about 15 minutes.
The Nike Air VaporMax Moc 2 x ACRONYM® releases March 23 in all colorways exclusively on acrnm.com.
Nike Air VaporMax Flyknit Moc 2 x ACRONYM AVM-101
Nike Air VaporMax Flyknit Moc 2 x ACRONYM AVM-102
