TRIANGLE OFFENSE: THE THIRD AND FINAL NIKE + R. T. AIR FORCE 1 COLLECTION (1)

The last Nike + R. T. Air Force 1 completes the trifecta with an affable veneer and debuts court-side at the 2014 basketball World Cup final.

NikeLab presents the third and final installment of the Nike + R. T. Air Force 1 trilogy with the release of the nike free 5.0 + R. T. Air Force 1 collection in beige. Joining the family of AF1s with the preceding Nike + R. T. Air Force 1 collections in white and black, all three colorways represent the power of sport to unite disparate tribes under one love – love of the Nike Air Force 1.

Sport possesses a rare ability to unite people from all walks of life under a common obsession, and basketball is no different. For basketball fanatics the absolutes don't divide the community but rather creates a catalyst for a diverse group of people to come together under one identity nike air max 2014 womens. When a community galvanizes against one ideal, the result is the formation of a modern day tribe.

Tribe culture, as Tisci describes, is a reflection of the youth generation today.

“Everyone in the world needs identity so they are all making themselves into tribes. ” Tisci continues, “They are more Goth, more pure or more punk, more rap, more R&B…You can have a million different tribes,nike air max 90 VT but it's always one thing that unites them. ”

The common link among the basketball tribe is reverence for the icon that helped kick start a phenomenon. Since 1982, the Nike Air Force 1 has served as an underground symbol of unity for a community whose affection has carried the nike air max 1 sale Air Force 1 beyond the court into street culture. Once confined to the I-95 corridor of North America’s East Coast, the AF1 has since grown to permeate the boundaries of various scenes and genders across the world to become a unisex emblem of unity.