NIKE VINTAGE RUNNING

One of the challenges surely was that they were utilising the most technology they had at the time?
Exactly. We did a project not so long ago where Tinker redesigned the Trainer 1 and it wasn’t really what we call a first take, but more of a contemporary version of the Trainer 1. When you look at the original sketches he wanted to do certain things back then, which from a technological point of view, he simply couldn’t achieve. You couldn’t do that with rubber or you couldn’t do that with the moulds he had, or there were no technologies that could even make that material, or cure that quickly. So it’s interesting looking back at the First Takes or the design sketches. We couldn’t do it then, but now we can. It’s really looking back at yourself and saying the future is in the past, rather than somewhere undefined.

Thanks for your time Richard, nice to end on a metaphysical note...










Turn the page for some general release versions of the shoes designed for Junya Watanabe... they finally appeared on shelves in mid-2007.