Certificate of
Authenticity
Authenticity
0
Try on
View authenticity certificate
- Cut
- Low Top
- Upper
- Leather
- Colourway
- Grey Fog
Nike Dunk Low Chenille Swoosh - Grey Fog
Nike Dunk Low Chenille Swoosh - Grey Fog
- Cut
- Low Top
- Upper
- Leather
- Colourway
- Grey Fog
DELIVERY AND AUTHENTICATION
Includes Authentication Certificate
by Checkcheck global standards
Come see it in person
Culture Note™
Designed by Peter Moore and released on 16 December 2022 as part of Nike's Dunk line. This release has a leather upper in Grey Fog/Wolf Grey/Iron Grey/Black. Grey Fog is the colour Nike reaches for when it wants a Dunk to disappear into a wardrobe rather than announce itself, and the chenille Swoosh is the joke played on top of that. Chenille is fuzzy, tactile, textile, the material of varsity lettering rather than athletic leather, so putting it on the side of a court shoe swaps the Swoosh from a hard graphic into something soft you want to touch. Carolyn Davidson drew that mark as a design student and Nike first used it in June 1971 before registering it in January 1974, and half a century later the brand can afford to change its texture and let the shape carry the recognition. Muted grey makes the texture the only event.
Grey Fog is a neutral, so treat it as a base layer for the outfit. First recipe: charcoal wide trousers, a white tee and a black overshirt, letting the chenille texture be the only soft thing in a hard palette. Second: washed indigo denim with a cream cable knit, where the fuzzy Swoosh answers the knit and the whole fit reads tactile. Avoid wet weather entirely, because chenille holds water and dries stiff. This is a dry day, casual wear shoe. Brush the Swoosh gently in one direction with a soft brush to lift the pile back up, clean the surrounding panels with a barely damp cloth, and never put a wire brush anywhere near it.
Dunks endure because two audiences kept them alive for opposite reasons. Skateboarding took the silhouette because a flat sole and padded tongue suited the board, and Nike SB turned the platform into a collaboration and storytelling canvas, a relationship that has occasionally gone wrong, as when the 2005 appropriation of Minor Threat album art drew Ian MacKaye's public rebuke and a Nike apology. The other audience came through the status economy that Air Jordans, Air Force 1s and Air Max built in urban and hip hop fashion from the 1980s onward. A texture experiment in a muted colour is aimed squarely at the second group: people who already own the loud ones.
The base is the standard Dunk Low platform: a low court silhouette on a broad rubber outsole with a pivot pattern, a padded collar, and panelled upper construction that creases at the natural flex point. The variation here is the Swoosh itself, executed in chenille rather than stitched leather or suede, which sits raised and fuzzy against the surrounding grey and catches light differently as you move. That texture is also the fragile part. Chenille traps dust, flattens where it rubs, and cannot be scrubbed the way a leather panel can. Grey Fog on the rest of the shoe is forgiving with everyday marks but will pick up a green cast if you clean it with anything harsh.
- Cut
- Low Top
- Upper
- Leather
- Colourway
- Grey Fog
Most asked questions
How we always
Guarantee the best prices?
Luxury marketplace
In luxury marketplaces, prices depend on demand — less popular items sell below retail.
.svg)
Competition between sellers
Our 5,000+ verified sellers compete with each other, giving you the lowest prices.
.svg)
Price comparison
We show you price comparisons across sellers so you always get better deals.
.svg)
Helping sellers, helping you
We help sellers buy smarter inventory, so they can offer you better prices.
Loading…