ACRONYM and Nike today officially reveal their latest collaboration surrounding the Air VaporMax Moc 2, complete with a western styled visual campaign featuring Errolson Hugh and John Mayer.
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Mayer, a pillar of great style and an early adopter of ACRONYM’s technical aesthetic, serves as the campaign’s muse for a collection that Hugh calls anything but retro. “The physical aspect of it, once the laces are removed and with the elastic tongue…there is not really much that we felt we wanted to do functionally because it’s great.”
Releasing in three colorways – Light Bone/Volt-Light Bone, Black/Black-Volt and Sail/Cargo Khaki-Dark Stucco – the shoe has been championed by its apparent chevron graphics throughout the upper. Errolson, though, advises that’s not truly the meaning of the patterned upper.
“The patterning is basically the A from Acronym. It’s the original shape, and then it just gets turned into a grid. Each of the intersecting lines of the A inside the square makes the surface, and we just delete and inverse the various surfaces that result from those intersections. It makes for a kind of progression that you get these surprising shapes out of.”
Following a release and subsequent sell out on ACRONYM’s webshop this morning, the collection will release again is this order: Light Bone/Volt-Light Bone colorway on March 26, the Black/Black-Volt on April 26 and the Sail/Cargo Khaki-Dark Stucco on May 15. All will be available on their respective launch dates on Nike SNKRS, nike.com and select Nike retailers.
ACRONYM x Nike Air Vapormax Moc 2
Colorway: Light Bone/Volt-Light Bone
Release Date: March 26, 2018
ACRONYM x Nike Air Vapormax Moc 2
Colorway: Black/Black-Volt
Release Date: April 26, 2018
ACRONYM x Nike Air Vapormax Moc 2
Colorway: Sail/Cargo Khaki-Dark Stucco
Release Date: May 15, 2018
