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Air Jordan 1 Mid SE Space Jam
Air Jordan 1 Mid SE Space Jam
- Cut
- Mid Top
- Upper
- Patent Leather
- Gender
- Unisex
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Designed by Peter Moore and released on 23 January 2023 as part of the Air Jordan 1 line. This release has a patent leather upper in Black/Dark Concord/White. Space Jam is one of the few colourway names in the Jordan catalogue that points at something outside basketball entirely, and it has been attached to more than one model over the years. On a Mid SE, the reference is carried by the palette and the graphic treatment rather than by any change to the shoe's bones. Those bones are Peter Moore's 1984 layout, drawn with Bruce Kilgore, and the Mid is the cut that keeps the AJ1 permanently in production rather than periodically in stock. Special edition make ups are where the model absorbs ideas from the wider culture around it. This one is the AJ1 acknowledging that for a large part of its audience, Michael Jordan arrived through a screen rather than through a broadcast of an actual game.
Recipe one: black jeans, a graphic tee that stays quiet, and a black jacket, letting the shoe carry the only loud element in the outfit. Recipe two: grey sweat trousers with an elastic hem, a white hoodie and a black cap, which is the most honest way to wear an SE make up. Do not add a second graphic anywhere on you. The Mid collar wants a hem stopping just above it rather than bunching over it. Fit is true with a narrow toe box. Keep them dry, since applied graphics and water are a poor combination, and clean gently rather than thoroughly.
Air Jordan reached culture through the collision of basketball and hip hop, but the on screen route mattered just as much. Nike's earliest advertising put the shoe into film language with Spike Lee directing and playing Mars Blackmon opposite Jordan, which established the idea that a Jordan sneaker belonged in a story rather than only in a game. Everything that followed, from the rappers who referenced the shoes to the collectors who turned original pairs into twenty thousand dollar objects, built on that. A film referencing SE is the line quoting its own habit of living outside the arena.
Leather panels over a rubber cupsole, a padded mid height collar and the Wings mark that dates the earliest era of the line. SE make ups usually mean applied graphics or contrast panels sitting on top of the standard build, and that changes the care instructions more than the wear. Printed or applied surfaces do not tolerate scrubbing: use a foam cleaner with a soft brush and light pressure, and never take a solvent to a graphic panel, because it lifts the print before it lifts the dirt. The white midsole cleans normally with a soft eraser. Air dry away from heat, and store out of direct sun so any print keeps its density.
- Cut
- Mid Top
- Upper
- Patent Leather
- Gender
- Unisex
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