Dangerous Man, Good Kicks: Billie Eilish is launching a sneaker collaboration with Nike.
Billie Eilish is stepping again into the highlight—this time, with a contemporary pair of kicks: The singer introduced Tuesday that she will likely be releasing Air Jordan 15 and Air Jordan 1 KO kinds in collaboration with Nike.
Scheduled to drop on September twenty seventh and thirtieth—on Eilish’s online store and Nike’s SNKR web site, respectively—the sneakers are vegan and constituted of greater than 20% recycled supplies, becoming for a star who wore Oscar de la Renta go fur-free as a situation of sporting the designer to the latest Met Gala.
“You may make cool s***t and also you don’t should be wasteful,” she stated in a video for Nike on the gathering.
Going Inexperienced: Eilish’s sneakers are vegan with greater than 20% recycled materials.
The designs additionally include a wholesome dose of nostalgia: The Air Jordan 1s are inexperienced, an ode to her iconic former hair coloration.
“This coloration is such a basic, silly, little ‘outdated me’ factor, I suppose,” Eilish stated. “I actually wished to have nearly a type of ode to myself, in an appreciative manner, in a type of sentimental manner.”
However what she actually loves concerning the Air Jordan 1 KOs are their type. “These are one of the best form, with something—with pants, with shorts, with clothes, with skirts,” she stated, a reality which she herself has confirmed, sporting them numerous instances on stage.
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The 15s, in the meantime, honor Eilish’s current aesthetic of their impartial tan. “The 15s have really been my favourite Jordan, since I knew what Jordans have been,” she stated. “I begged for the 15s, within the black and the crimson, and after I bought them…I checked out them as in the event that they have been $1 million sitting proper in entrance of me.”
Impressed by NASA’s X-15 fighter jet, the 15s are “not a well-liked shoe,” Eilish continued, “and I don’t give a f***ok. As a result of what you’re feeling about one thing you like deeply is all that issues on the earth.”