Originally Posted by
elcerrito91
Originally Posted by
4wrestling
Originally Posted by StillIn729
Tiffs did not start the SB hype,
The first set of SB's sat on my skate shops shelves almost a year later they still had some sizes in Mulder's, Forbes, Gino's and the Brown/Orange Blazers and the other releases didn't sell out either...it slowly started to build and then Supreme dropped round 2 and all the hype cats got on the wagon, the same ones who bash SB now like they are on some ultra hip level, they are all lame to me. The Dunk is an all time classic shoe but since it's no longer the mid 2000's it's not cool anymore to little wack hype beasts. The same people who wear the trash called SUPRA.
I remember walking into my local skate shop back home (Homebase 610) in 2003 and picking up the Futuras and Takashis for retail with absolutely no problem. Damn I wish I still had those Futuras.
I think the hype around the Supreme Lows was more about Supreme than being Nike SBs. I would say the shoe that really started the hype was the Heinekens.
Right Stillin, I know Diamonds didn't start the hype, but I asked what the dunk with the most hype surrounding it was...A lot of people say ESPOs led to the camping, Premes, even Dooms (after Diamonds however). I think the Diamond collab really put SB on the mainstream map and then Nike got greedy and raised the price on dunks, just taking advantage of the demand, but still.
4wrestling,
I kind of agree with you on the Supreme comment, but I think the success of that shoe was due to the look more so than it was SB, but I think that pair got people thinking about SBs (dunks) for collection purposes, and I say that when preme lows dropped that was when the collecting really took off though people had already been collecting from the beginning. The hype on those was WAY less than on Diamonds probably b/c people may not have known about Nike SB back then in terms of the number of people that know now. I think the number of collectors and sadly HBs increased after the tiffs. How much were Supas, Mulders, etc when they dropped (resale wise)? Like when did the SB resale market really take off?
I think this was a great thread idea and to be honest I would like to make a suggestion, instead of just focusing on the Diamond, I think making one big 02-05 thread would be better. We have the Pigeon thread, so why not combine them all, so all this valuable information and pics are in one place and are easily accessible?