“It’s gotta be the shoes!” @jumpman23 @quai54wsc @360_creative 🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾 Here’s a lil “How it started vs. How it’s going” story for y’all. 1990: First pair of Js I ever got were the AJVs. Had both the black and the white pair. OGs. 16 years old. I was the only kid in my class to have them, which changed my social status for the years to come 😆 The only other kid in my school to have them was a rich kid, got his bought by his parents. Got mines with my own resources. Very different. I was a 🛹 kid but I loved 🏀 and went out to all the summer tournaments to watch legends like Moustapha Sonko 🇸🇳 play like we thought “only Americans could’’. What a time. My friend / 🛹 teammate @alexanderwiseparis was the first person to tell me then about #TinkerHatfield, the genius designer of the most popular Air Jordans, and how the AJV’s design was inspired by fighter plane designs. I became fascinated by Tinker’s work and the idea that a 👟 design could encapsulate so much interesting storytelling, which eventually led me to meeting him in 2005 and having him in a few films I made about 👟 design / culture (Do your research, youngblood!) 2021: @alexanderwiseparis and I 🙋🏾‍♂️ are up to co-designing our 5th capsule collection (yes you read that right) in collaboration with @jumpman23 for @quai54wsc, my very own summer basketball tournament 🏟 🙌🏾 (Yes you read that right x 2). Pause: If you can’t respect that, your whole perspective is wack. (Hov voice 🗣) This year, we got to apply our own design / storytelling perspectives on 2 Quai 54 AJVs (white and black), as well as a full 👟 + 👕 capsule collection, with a design story tied to the visual environment we created for the event. I am extremely proud of having made our design stories for these collaborations about the intersection of African roots x Parisian design / couture flow x Iconic Jordan silhouettes - something that rings really true, and somewhat unique to us. 🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾 @jumpman23 This truly feels like a dream come true. #Quai54 #360Creative #JUMPMAN #NeverNotWorking #TrueToThisNotNewToThis #AnotherOne #OuiTheBest #StillInTheMeeting #BlessUp 🏀👟🎨👨🏽‍🎨🧑🏻‍🎨🇸🇳🇫🇷🇺🇸🧶✂️🎯📈