OFF-WHITE x Nike World Cup Capsule Collection
- by Yuliia Support Team Lead
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- 05 Jun, 2018
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World Cup 2018 | Collaboration | Off-White








To celebrate the World Cup which seems to just around the corner Nike teamed up in their own way with two relevant designers Virgil Abloh
and Kim Jones
to create a fashionable and football suitable collections. Looking and delving more into Virgil's collaborative work with the sports giant Nike the collection features on various football details an example is a black and white checkerboard with references to Croatia's uniform and the lion logo with orange and blue dots embodying the Dutch crest. The use of numbers in the collection represents the artistic directors at Louis Vuitton men's wear hay-days when he played. Lastly, the Flyknit Zoom Fly represents the most the spot the player often hit the ball. Stating his immense support for the game the founder of Off-White
Virgil Abloh “The great thing about the vocabulary and history of football is that aesthetically it has its own look,” adding “I was always inspired by the way European teams have a sponsor printed over the chest. When I was working on this collection, I wanted to celebrate the different variants of typography.”