Nike Fragment Design X Sacai X Ldv Waffle Light Grey

Released on 15 September 2021 and part of the LDV Waffle line. This release has a suede upper in Light Smoke Grey/White/Black. The waffle sole is Nike's founding piece of engineering. Bill Bowerman, chasing something lighter and grippier than what American runners could buy, poured rubber into his wife's waffle iron, and the tread that came out led to the 1972 Moon Shoe and the 1974 Waffle Trainer. The LDWaffle is that lineage rebuilt as a design object by two outside parties: Fragment Design and sacai, a Japanese label whose entire method is doubling and layering garments until the construction becomes the decoration. Light Grey is the most architectural way to buy it, because with the colour turned down you actually see the doubling: the stacked Swooshes, the layered panels, the two of everything that makes this shoe read as a shoe on top of a shoe.