Nike Dunk SB Low Pro X Powerpuff Girls Bubbles

Nike started in 1964 as Blue Ribbon Sports, a two-man importer of Onitsuka Tiger runners that Phil Knight sold from the boot of his car at Oregon track meets while Bill Bowerman argued American athletes deserved something lighter. Borrowing from outside itself was the company's first instinct and it never stopped. Nike SB, the skate arm, is where that instinct still runs hardest, pulling graphics and references from culture at large and putting them on a court shoe. This Dunk SB Low Pro hands the pair to Bubbles, so the whole shoe reads in her palette rather than the cartoon's full spectrum. It is a character shoe that stays a skate shoe underneath: the Low Pro shape is untouched, and the Swoosh, first used in June 1971, still does the structural work across the panel.