Converse x Chinatown Market NBA Pack
Chinatown Market and Converse have teamed up for a new NBA footwear capsule inspired by designer Jeff Hamilton‘s famous NBA Championship jackets. Spotlighting the jackets Hamilton made for the ‘02 Los Angeles Lakers and ‘98 Chicago Bulls — two legendary teams that had just finished off the ever-illusive championship “three-peat” — across the Chuck 70 and Pro Leather, the collection is a colourful compilation of hoops history.
Hamilton’s ‘02 Lakers jacket combined the Lake Show’s signature purple and gold with palm trees and other breezy City of Angels-inspired graphics, a free-flowing ethos that’s translated two different ways on the shoes it inspired. The Chuck 70 Hi is done up in light blue with a black LA skyline and Walk of Fame-style star graphics, while the Pro Leather uses an abundance of regal purple with gold accents and its own palm tree hits. Lakers fans will surely remember that the jacket itself was once worn by the late, great Kobe Bryant.
On the other end, the Bulls-inspired shoes offer a more stark Windy City mix of black and red to replicate a Hamilton-designed jacket once sported by Michael Jordan. The Chuck 70 Hi offers bold skyline details and number prints, with the Pro Leather adding Bulls patches, bright blue details and even green embroidered laurel wreaths around the toebox and on the heel.
The Converse x Chinatown Market pack drops 12 March in CPT, JHB and online! Online at 7am, CPT and JHB open at 10am.
Chinatown Market x Converse Chuck 70 Hi: R1799
Chinatown Market x Converse Pro Leather: R2199
Sizes: UK6, UK7, UK8, UK9, UK10, UK11.