Nike SB Dunk Low Black Pigeon

Designed by Peter Moore and released on 7 November 2017 as part of Nike's Dunk SB line. This release has the Black/Black-Sienna colourway. Nike SB is the part of the company that had to earn its place rather than buy it. Skateboarding was suspicious of a corporation that by 1980 already held around half the US athletic shoe market, so the SB line worked through shops, riders and small releases instead of mass distribution. The Dunk Low became its main vehicle because the panel layout is simple enough to carry someone else's idea without being buried by it. The Black Pigeon is one of the releases people quote when they explain why SB Dunks became collector objects at all, and the black colourway is the severe reading of it: dark, restrained, and identifiable only to people who already know.