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Air Jordan 1 Retro High OG Artisanal Team Red
Air Jordan 1 Retro High OG Artisanal Team Red
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Origin
Designed by Peter Moore and released on 27 April 2024 as part of the Air Jordan 1 line. This release has a leather upper in White/Team Red. Artisanal is Jordan Brand deliberately roughening its own flagship. The Retro High OG is the faithful build of the 1985 shoe, Peter Moore's design with Bruce Kilgore, produced for Michael Jordan in November 1984 and sold publicly from April 1985, and it is normally the most precisely finished shoe in the range. Team red is a straightforward, saturated brand colour drawn from the founding Chicago palette of red, black and white. Applying a handmade, imperfect finish to that combination is the interesting decision: it takes the shoe most associated with mass demand and gives it the visual language of small batch leather goods. Style code DZ5485 160 places it in that craft leaning programme.
Utility
A textured red wants natural fabrics around it. Wear it with raw denim, a cream knit and a waxed jacket, so the finish reads as craft rather than as damage, or with charcoal wool trousers and a black rollneck for a sharper version where the red is the only warm note. Avoid technical or shiny fabrics, which will make the finish look accidental. Cuff the hem to show the collar. Sizing runs long on many feet. Condition the leather rather than scrubbing it, since aggressive cleaning will flatten the intended variation, and keep the pair out of long sunlight so the red stays even.
Influence
Red is the colour that carries the Banned story, built on the league's uniform rule requiring shoes to be at least 51 percent white and Nike's decision to pay the 5,000 dollar per game fine rather than redesign, then advertise the whole episode. That taught the market that transgression sells. The craft finish belongs to a later era, one shaped by the brand's work with Off-White under Virgil Abloh, Dior, Comme des Garcons, Supreme and KAWS, where the value of a sneaker is argued through material rather than through colour. This pair sits at the meeting point of those two conversations.
Construction
The build is the OG one, with a leather upper in the original panel map, the collar rising over the ankle and the Wings logo in place, so nothing structural has changed. What changes is finish: an artisanal treatment means the surface is intended to look worked rather than uniform, with variation across panels that would be considered a defect on a standard makeup. That is worth knowing before you buy, because no two pairs will look identical. A red with texture in it hides early scuffing better than a flat red does. The high collar is stiff at first and softens over weeks, and the toe will crease along the flex line as it always does.




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