Nike OTC Meeting 2023

After 3 years of COVID-related abstinence, last weekend the Nike OTC meeting finally took 

place in Shibuya again.
It's been a long wait, I was eager to see many familiar but also some new faces again, 

have some time to chat and nerd out about the models everyone brought and get my 

yearly dose of sneaker obscurities.
Unfortunately our dear Jumi was unable to join this year due to a knee injury, but Marseille 

was very well represented instead.

Because to the very long COVID break this year’s awesome theme was “good bye CORONA”

COLONA, the japanese pronunciation includes the numbers:

CO→5
LO→6
NA→7
so everyone was supposed to to bring models produced in 1975.76.77 or 1985.86.87.

Of course the Nike Air Jordan 1, Terminator and Dunk where heavily represented in every 

obscure way, but also a huge amount of 70s models were filling the shelves.

Apart from being able to spend some time with my dear Japanese sneaker crew I was 

overwhelmed with incredible presents, which made me feel like my birthday and Christmas 

came on the same day.

Ravanelli.konno surprised me with a beautiful original Salem Ewing t-shirt, Kunii-San sent 

me some Mita Forums, which where hand delivered by Chooee and I was super lucky to 

win an amazing bundle of vintage goodies from Nic at the raffle!

I will post these items as soon as I am back in Germany, but for now I am enjoying 

some time off in Koh Lanta, Thailand.

Thank you Nike OTC for your warm welcome, making great new memories and the precious 

time. 

A noteworthy special thank you goes to Smit/Shin-Ichiro, Yusuke and Toshiya-Towa for 

putting so much work and love into planning this perfect event!

All pictures after the jump 

Nike's Free 'Textbook'

One of the biggest sneaker design collaborations of the last year has been 
Nike’s partnership with Virgil Abloh — founder of fashion label Off-White 
and new men’s artistic director of Louis Vuitton. 
Known as “The Ten,”  the project gave Abloh license to reconstruct 10 of 
Nike’s most-recognized shoes, including the Air Jordan 1, the Air Force 1, 
the Air Max 90, and more.

Now Nike has released a “textbook” online—you can download it here (pdf)
— documenting how the collaboration developed behind the scenes. 
Nike calls it “an encyclopedia of images and text surrounding the project.” 
It includes background stories of the original sneaker styles, written by 
much-loved sneaker journalist Gary Warnett, who unexpectedly died last 
year, as well as commentary from Andy Caine, Nike’s VP of footwear design, 
and Abloh himself.

The book offers a peak beneath the hype at what went into creating the 
shoes, including the trial and error of design, and how Abloh played off the 
long-held emotional connections people feel toward their sneakers to 
create his own new takes.