Make-A-Wish Patient Designs His Own Brand New Air Jordan 1 FlyEase Basketball Shoes
For Shop Jordans 2022, Back in July, Make-A-Wish helped 13-year-old Jordan Carranza, who was diagnosed with Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy, fulfill his dream of designing his own Air Jordan and the pair he picked was the Air Jordan 1 High FlyEase. Carranza was then connected with various Jordan Brand designers where he presented his own sketch and vision of the shoe.“What inspired me to make this shoe is that Nike has always been my favorite brand, and I have always wanted to make a shoe. The reason I made a handicap style is that it shows me that just because you’re disabled doesn’t mean that your dream can’t come true,” Carranza said.
This Air Jordan 1 FlyEase comes dressed in a classic royal blue, white and black color scheme, that is strongly reminiscent of previous Air Jordan 1 collaborations with fragment design. In order to make the kicks more personal to him, the young designer embellishes the tongues with his initials, adds wheelchair icons to lateral heel sections and the outsoles and remixes the Jumpman’s classic ball-and-wings logos with his initials in the middle.the interiors are lined with satin royal blue and come adorned with all-over wheelchair icon graphics.The motif also appears on the collar and tongue’s underside. Lastly, sock-liners feature a mantra to which the Air Jordan PE is a testament: “Just because your [sic] disabled doesnt [sic] mean that your dream cant [sic] come true.”
Released in 2015, the Air Jordan 1 Retro High OG Shattered Backboard is inspired by an exhibition game Michael Jordan participated in back in 1985 in Trieste, Italy where he broke the glass backboard after a dunk.This sneaker maintains the branding of black laces and Nike, but swaps the orange toe box and black around the white toe and tongue.A special image of a shattered backboard is seen on the insole of the sneaker. Apart from the insole, the sneaker style and color flow resembles your favorite OG styled Air Jordan Retro 1. For unique flair, the label equipped the sneaker with orange semi-translucent outsoles.
