Nike Air Dictate 2, circa 2014. Studded and recontextualized.
Category: Remade
File under: Consumer Relic, Nike
Description
A pair of Nike Air Dictate 2 sneakers—an uncelebrated model from the brand’s 1990s basketball line, re-released briefly in the mid-2010s before disappearing from circulation. The style never entered the canon of collectible footwear; it remained functional, overlooked, and largely undocumented.
This pair was found already worn. Each shoe has been hand-studded with metal pyramids across the toe—an intervention that collapses two aesthetics often kept apart: corporate performance wear and subcultural defiance. The act of modification repositions the sneaker as artifact—less about athletics, more about endurance, memory, and the slow degradation of design through use.
The Air Dictate name itself—unintentional irony in retrospect—speaks to a different kind of authorship.
Nike Air Dictate 2, circa 2014. Studded and recontextualized.
Category: Remade
File under: Consumer Relic, Nike
Description
A pair of Nike Air Dictate 2 sneakers—an uncelebrated model from the brand’s 1990s basketball line, re-released briefly in the mid-2010s before disappearing from circulation. The style never entered the canon of collectible footwear; it remained functional, overlooked, and largely undocumented.
This pair was found already worn. Each shoe has been hand-studded with metal pyramids across the toe—an intervention that collapses two aesthetics often kept apart: corporate performance wear and subcultural defiance. The act of modification repositions the sneaker as artifact—less about athletics, more about endurance, memory, and the slow degradation of design through use.
The Air Dictate name itself—unintentional irony in retrospect—speaks to a different kind of authorship.
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