New Nikes do it for Spike Lee
For the last two years, director Spike Lee has been putting the squeeze on Nike to release a Jordan shoe to help raise money for the film institute he is opening at his old university, Morehouse.
The Spiz’ike (below) – an amalgamation of all the Jordans that he helped advertise ( the III, IV, V, VI and XX) – is limited to ‘4023′ pairs; the ‘40′ comes from Spike’s film 40 Acres And A Mule, with the ‘23′ representing Michael Jordan’s old jersey number.
The shoes were released this Saturday for $175. At present they’re only available on the east coast of the US, from Boston to DC, but at the time of writing eight pairs were already up on Ebay. Get bidding…
We are listening to Elbow
That is quite possibly the ugliest shoe i have ever seen in my life. If i didn’t know better i’d say they were designed for 6 year olds.
Comment by sam991 — 24/10/06
Anyone else think that Shit Bucket is a better name for a shoe than Spiz’ike?
Comment by scratchy_muffin — 29/10/06