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DUNK HIGH "SETSUBUN"
DUNK HIGH "SETSUBUN"
- Cut
- High Top
- Upper
- Leather
- Gender
- Unisex
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Culture Note™
Designed by Peter Moore and released on 30 March 2022 as part of Nike's Dunk line. This release has a leather upper in Sail/Harvest Moon/Hot Curry/Canyon Purple. The Dunk High is a basketball pattern from Nike's early court era that has spent the last two decades being used as a storytelling surface, and Setsubun is one of the seasonal, Japan-facing themes the brand has built on it. A themed high top works because the silhouette gives a designer a lot of separate panels to speak with: toe, quarter, eyestay, Swoosh, collar and heel can each carry a different material or colour without the shoe losing its shape. Style code DQ5012 133 identifies this make-up. It sits in the part of the Dunk catalogue that is bought for the concept rather than for the collaborator's name on the box.
Recipe one: black tapered trousers with a plain black knit and a longer coat, so the shoe's colour story is the only pattern in the outfit and the high collar is visible above the hem. Recipe two: mid-blue straight denim with a cream crew and a work jacket, the casual reading, where a themed Dunk High acts as the single focal point. Dunks sit narrow at the toe, so go up half a size if between. Lace the top eyelet if you want the collar to hold shape. Clean textile panels with cold water and a soft brush, treat leather separately with a damp cloth, and never soak a mixed-material upper.
Nike's move from sport into culture happened through basketball first, after the 1984 Michael Jordan signing and the Spike Lee directed Mars Blackmon advertising, and then through the broader spread of Air Jordans, Air Force 1s and Air Max models into everyday dress from the 1980s onward. The Dunk arrived in that story late and sideways, mostly through skateboarding, and ended up as the model Nike uses when it wants to say something specific to a specific place. A regional seasonal theme is that instinct applied carefully: not borrowing a subculture's imagery, which the company has been criticised for doing before, but building a release around a calendar the audience already keeps.
Dunk High architecture: a panelled leather and textile upper, a padded high collar that wraps the ankle, a foam midsole and a rubber outsole with the tread language Nike has carried since Bowerman produced the waffle sole in his wife's waffle iron. On a themed release the interesting parts are usually the details rather than the shape, so check the insole print, the lace hardware, the heel tab and any embroidery, which is where the concept actually lives. Style code DQ5012 133 marks it. Mixed-material uppers age unevenly, with textile panels softening while leather creases, so a shoe like this looks better with a light cleaning habit than with heavy restoration.
- Cut
- High Top
- Upper
- Leather
- Gender
- Unisex
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