Hiroshi Fujiwara II ‘Nigo’, went to Nike to cheat Social Security Provident Fund? (Adi x Nigo co-branding big roundup)

There was a time when Nike had a team of co-designers called ‘The Sky Team’.

One has unfortunately passed away, one asshole has already been high priced by Adi (* belongs to the level of mixed service + social security provident fund), and one family member who shouts Nike’s family every day has also been bought by Adi to become a family member.

The rest of us are basically “assholes”…

Even so, there were only a few professional “jokers” left, and then another professional “jokers” joined, AKA Fujiwara Hiroshi II, known as Nigo’s “Nagao Tomoaki”.

Now “Hiroshi Fujiwara” and “Hiroshi Fujiwara II” are both making a living under Nike.

This is the man to whom even the creative director of Vuitton had to presently kneel at the just-concluded LV25 show.

Others are out from Nike to go to Adi, only Nigo against the wind!

After joining Nike for almost 2 years, he finally delivered Nike’s homework on KENZO’s show on purpose recently. A pair of “Air Force 3 Low”.

It also took long enough for Nigo to turn his head to Nike, and after a year of polishing, the result was a squeezy release of two pairs of cold AF3 styles.

The design was previously criticized and uninspiring when it was still at Adi, so what do you guys think of the homework delivered on the Nike side this time around?

However, looking back on Nigo’s resume of nearly 20 years, as the founder of BAPE and HUMAN MADE, the gold can be seen as extraordinary, and currently also serves as Kenzo’s creative director position.

Now and completely set the Adi, Nike two shoe circle giant resume, basically can be considered the trend of the world of social flower + talk about people.

However, looking back on Nigo’s resume of nearly 20 years, as the founder of BAPE and HUMAN MADE, the gold can be seen as extraordinary, and currently also serves as Kenzo’s creative director position.

Now and completely set the Adi, Nike two shoe circle giant resume, basically can be considered the trend of the world of social flower + talk about people.

“Nigo Sneaker Roundup

1. Bape Sta

First of all, Nigo’s most famous design is undoubtedly the Bape Sta shoes created in the early days of Bape, of course, this pair of shoes is currently the most controversial pair of shoes in Nigo’s career, without a doubt, no matter whether it is in the details of the shoe body or the general aspects of the shoe, this pair of shoes have the shadow of the Nike AF1, and in the early days some people even directly put the two pairs of shoes together, the similarity is self-evident! The similarity is self-evident.

So Nigo design is to copy Nike’s shoes to change the label as well as the color palette of the collocation, so that the whole Bape Sta fire for a while, became so far Nike is still arguing with its suspected plagiarism of the pair of lines, only with the 2010, Nigo formally left the Bape, the topic of the discussion is also gradually faded.

2. adidas x Bape Super Apestar

It was 2003, the year that Nigo’s Bape took off, bringing adidas on board for the first time, and the first pair to be created was the Super Apestar.

Prior to this, the young GuanXi brother also wore this pair of shoes to shoot a magazine cover, the shoes on the many Bape classic elements attached to this pair of extremely classic shoe shape, which the special shoe box version of the year is more than a lot of shoe fans were shocked.

But due to the ultra-limited release back in the day, it’s also very hard to see it again at the moment ….

3. adidas x Bape Superstar 80s

After Nigo sold Bape to IT in 2010 and signed a two-year designer’s contract, Nigo’s collaborations with adidas slowly began to grow, with Nigo mentioning the Campus 80s as one of his favorite shoes in previous interviews, and the Superstar, which has been co-branded many times, is also a favorite of Nigo’s. Nigo has been working with adidas for many years now, and has been working with adidas for many years.

It can be seen that Nigo for the classic sneakers are still quite obsessive, so in the following year this pair of Bape co-branded adidas Superstar 80s is also considered to be Nigo in Bape’s last dance, but the overall look down there is not much change just in the details of the recent Bape co-branded first-generation figure can be seen.

4. adidas x By Nigo

In 2014, after his contract ended, Nigo went solo and collaborated with adidas, most notably with this By Nigo logo short sleeve and a number of apparel lines.

In the early days Human Made’s bear motifs as well as fonts were shown in varying degrees.

Of course, on top of the first co-branded shoes, Nigo has also utilized many retro shoe models, such as Mountain Marathon TR Mid, SuperStar 80s, Rivalry Hi, Shooting Star and other retro shoe models all at once.

The following year, in order to celebrate the 45th anniversary of the birth of the Superstar, Nigo once again personally worked with adidas to create this pair of highly recognizable adidas Originals Superstar 80s shoes, which were covered with adidas’ print design.

5. Human Made x adidas x Pharrell Williams

The two sides entered a three-year cooling-off period from 2016, and finally collaborated again in 2019, and this time Nigo’s Human Made had already started to make a name for itself in the trend circle, and Nigo also brought in his good buddy Pharrell Williams to create the adidas co-branded name that was considered to be a hit in that year.

The first pair is none other than this Solar Hu with the blue heart design at the toe.

The latter version of the red heart is the launch of adidas Hu Hu NMD, Tennis Hu and Solar Hu’s three shoes, only now it looks like nothing more than Logo use is very in place, coupled with the fire of the sneaker market in those years, as well as Fei Dong in the NMD God shoes under the heat added, so that the whole series have a good popularity, JJ Lin has also been on the foot.

6. Human Made x adidas SuperStar

In 2020 Nigo celebrated the 50th anniversary of the SuperStar by teaming up with adidas again to create three new Human Made co-branded shoes.

The various Human Made classics added to it are also memorable.

7. Human Made x adidas Stan Smith/Campus/Rivalry

In the same year, Nigo redesigned adidas Stan Smith, Campus and Rivalry again.

However, the overall look down does not have much new work, the elements are completely copied, in the market is also cold breakthrough status…

8. Human Made x adidas Tokio Solar HM/Unofcl HM

Just a month later, Nigo x adidas made a comeback, but in contrast to the previous clean slate of retro footwear, Nigo also chose adidas’ retro running shoes as the blueprint for the Tokio Solar HM and Unofcl HM hybrids.

But to say the design, except for the heart-shaped Logo at the heel, it is really hard to comment ….

9. Human Made x adidas Marathon HM/Nizza Hi

That November, the two sides co-branded Marathon HM and Nizza Hi finally came out, for the first time using the shoe type of Nigo, in this pair of Nizza is still nothing special, Human Made’s red heart neatly arranged in the midsole position, do not know whether directly borrowed from the design of the CDG Play, but ultimately the value is still quite versatile.

The other pair of Marathon HMs are a bit of a mouthful though…

10. Human Made x adidas Tokio Solar

For 2021, Nigo is bringing back the previously released Tokio Solar in a new blue and white as well as red and white colorway.

The design remains unchanged, and it’s worth noting that Yona Kojima has carried these shoes, so she’s really Nigo’s royal girl…

11. Human Made x adidas EQT Racing/Questar

In August of the same year, and Human Made co-branded EQT Racing, Questar shoes were officially launched, it can be seen that the entire series of color schemes by Nigo deployment of eye-catching, but in the design can not see too much innovation, cold shoes is also one of the major factors in the current collapse.

12. Human Made x adidas ADIMATIC

The last Nigo x adidas co-branding was on last year’s release of the hot bread shoe ADIMATIC, which was different from the usual palette, and Nigo has kind of gone all out to bring you three different colors.

The brown and green version is the most sought after, with prices currently remaining at 2000+ in the secondary market, one more pair of Happy Rich Girl shoes.

13. Nigo x Kenzo

However, after finishing the adidas camp, let’s take a look at Kenzo, which is now being handled by Nigo, before coming up with a pair of Nigo x Kenzo’s first skateboarding shoes, but whether it’s in terms of the shape of the shoe or the details, it can be said that it’s basically the same as the Nike Dunk SB.

This pair of its named Kenzo-Dome in the body of the shoe, on the other hand, there are suede and grained leather two options, the outsole and heel are cleverly integrated into the brand Logo, the value is still quite simple. Only at present, from the reaction of the secondary market, this pair of Nigo design skateboarding shoes finally pulled…

Another pair of Kenzo Pace, styled as retro metallic sneakers, was unveiled in the Fall/Winter 2023 Paris show, worn by Nigo himself. However, in the whole pair of shoes can still be seen in a number of major brands retro running shoes details of the place, but the effect of heightening the eye is still quite online.

Even Faye has previously been on a pair of the pink version to carry the goods for her good buddy.

“At the end of the day…”

Overall, I have to say that Nigo’s design level is still there, but not much. Maybe it’s because most of Nigo’s favorite shoes are retro styles, and they rarely follow the flow of popular models, so it’s hard to do a very bright performance.

Of course it can be seen Nigo to join Nike this matter, undoubtedly a win-win situation, whether it is before the alleged plagiarism of Nike AF1, Dunk SB shoes, etc., let a lot of people look forward to when Nigo really with the genuine co-branding will be what the scene.

Finally, a rational discussion about how good Nigo’s design really is…