Air Jordan 1 Low Obsidian Suede

Obsidian is Jordan Brand's deep blue, dark enough to pass for black in low light and unmistakably navy in the sun, and putting it on suede changes the shoe's whole register. Leather makes the Air Jordan 1 look like sports equipment; suede makes it look like something you chose. The silhouette is unchanged from the one Peter Moore designed with Bruce Kilgore for a rookie Nike signed on 26 October 1984, a shoe the company expected to sell modestly and which instead sold out its first 50,000 pairs. The low cut arrived later as the everyday version, and obsidian suede is that everyday shoe dressed up: no contrast noise, one rich surface, and a colour that behaves like navy tailoring rather than like team kit.