Jordan Brand launched its “WINGS for the Future” program with a goal of motivating and inspiring youth's of today to use education, sports, and creativity. Inglewood High School became it's first partner in this great initiative from such an influential and powerful brand in the modern day sneakers. In the WINGS program, Jordan Brand employees will be conducting weekly workshops and participating in activities involving graphic designs, essay writing, and career planning while giving the school(s) complete makeovers, of the basketball court and classrooms. To commemorate this most commendable partnership, Jordan Brand has collaborated with well-known artist and sneakerhead Dave White from UK, who is best known for his amazing canvas paintings of classic sneakers. In this project he gets to work with the original Air Jordan - Air Jordan 1.
The Dave White x Air Jordan 1 Retro features White’s sublime graphic touch on the upper, using red brush strokes and copious floods of metallic gold in White’s personal style of layers and splatters. Premium canvas, call-out to White’s ‘canvas’ of choice’ can be found on the tongue tag, with a pristine lasered inner lining. Environmentally Preferred Mesh is also utilized on interior walls of the shoe. White furthers his reach beyond the shoe with a special Air Jordan ‘Wings’ logo on the box painted in his trademark motif as well. Just twenty-three pairs of the Dave White x Air Jordan 1 Retro exist, and will be auctioned off at auction.SoleCollecter.com starting today. The Air Jordan 1 is a perfect way to launch the Jordan Brand WINGS for the Future, and no other than Dave White can exemplify the creativity and artistic talent that the WINGS for the Future program aims to promote. The auction is live now, and you can check out an interview with Dave about the project over on SoleCollector.
