Dior x Nike Air Jordans have been dominating recent luxury news cycles; Initially retailing for US$5,000, these high top sneakers now retail for $28,000 to $32,000 in after-market sales auctions. Yet, before the dominance of Nike Air Jordans on the courts and around the auction sites, the Adidas Superstar was the ‘OG’ aka original basketball shoe.

Manufactured in 1969, the Superstar was released as a low-top version of the Pro Model basketball shoe, achieving such heights of popularity that it swept away the reigning high-top canvas Converse Chuck Taylor All Stars (the Air Jordans of the era) that had dominated the sport for decades. To talk of why Air Jordans became supreme on NBA courts in basketball’s modern history, is to acknowledge that the the Superstar has only seen one major update in its lifetime – the introduction of the Superstar II in the 1990s; standing in stark contrast to how Nike spun its Air Jordan line into an entirely different sub-brand with its own product cycle: in essence creating hype even before hype became part of fashion lexicon.
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