Once you engage in the Nike Bespoke course you are believed to have a strong art background or an influential individual that can take a challenge worth almost a thousand dollars. Today’s featured Bespoke person is JD Beltran, an award-winning artist based in San Francisco, CA whose conceptual work and interdisciplinary practice bridges the narrative and the abstract while investigating the manner in which materials convey stories. Among Beltran’s famous works is the Portrait Doll Series that explores the sculptural medium of the doll.

Sharing some talents in her field, JD Beltran has touched a pair of Nike Air Force 1s for another astonishing piece that simply resembles her own remarkable work. By implementing black nubuck leather on the mudguard, she left the entire side panel and toe box for grey suede and grey denim for the heel. A hit of pastel and bright tones are obviously invading the Swoosh while bright yellow eyelets are making a good attraction while on top. Beltran also cross-stitched the toe area with pastel blue and finally dressed up the tongue in purple. To complete the pack, she applied translucent grey midsole with red/orange outer sole.

Everything is done and off is another Bespoke masterpiece!

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Mache Custom Kicks has been operating since 2004 as a legitimate sneaker customizer owned by Dan Gamache who is better known as “Mache”, a sneakerhead who has a Master’s degree in fine art. Mache became disenchanted with what his favorite footwear brands were coming out with and decided to take matters into his own hands. Using only paintbrushes and airbrush he slowly developed a trademark style and made a name for himself within the tight-knit sneaker community.

Now that Mache can personally design his own shoes, he finds great inspirations to make his craft look remarkable and attractive. In his search, he found Kanye West’s album, “My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy”, an amazing concept to stick to. As a result, Mache came up with an output that’s far more brilliant than any other customs as he painted a pair of Air Force 1s with the toe boxes featuring different faces from Kanye’s “Power” single cover while the lace panels and heel sport George Condo’s signature artwork. The mudguard on the other hand speaks out about the entire Kanye’s fifth studio album. Gradient white/blue has been implemented on the toe box and side panel with burgundy hints from the Swoosh, heel tab, and lace.

Cool credits to Mache for this wonderful rendition.

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Not all the time that sneakerheads are happy with each Nike Air Force 1 release since the colorways vary from single-toned to two-toned except for the Bespoke products. Nike has a solution to this without you spending around $800 at the 21 Mercer studio with the latest colorway that utilizes several textures for both the upper’s exterior and interior furnishing.

Being called the Red Bean, this Nike Air Force 1 colorway showcases an assortment of crimson red tumbled leather toe box and midsection, purple suede heel, crisp white leather Swoosh, and red Corduroy-grained inner lining. The debray, lace, and outsole appear in red with the midsole in white that sports a red AIR stamp. For additional identity, the red tongue features the Nike Air Force 1 branding in white.

As part of the brand’s most current releases, this pack is looking forward to a more hearty approach in the following month.

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If previous Bespoke projects appealed to be so unique, here is a heart-warming tale of the most recent Nike Air Force 1 Bespoke done by Ryan Chapman who made a wonderful craft out of an inspiration that truly touched the heart of his fiancé, Mallory, a world-class athlete who competed with U.S. National Paralympic swim team. A year ago, Mallory wanted a red/white/blue combination for her shoes so she and Ryan ended up with a Nike iD colorway of the Nike Shox NZ. Today, Ryan went to a hot pursuit at 21 Mercer to finally create his fiancé’s dream shoe with the Nike Air Force 1 Bespoke program.

Being inspired by the Shox NZ’s colorway, Ryan came up with the same mixture of colors by doing the toe box and side panel in metallic silver leather, a grey suede mudguard and lace panel, blue leather Swoosh and perforated heel with white leather heel tab and red inner lining. The design flaunts a unique feature from the crisscross stitching along the toe area, as well as the golden tongue that matches the hang tag. Ryan made this a memorable shoe by affixing the date of his and Mallory’s first encounter on the debray.

What an inspiring story both for the couple and this new Nike Air Force 1 Bespoke.

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Air Force 1 craze continues even outside the Nike Bespoke program because of intelligent and creative individuals like Chris Hui aka C2. He is a student of Hong Kong University of Science and Technology who got interested in customizing a pair of Nike Air Force 1s to look different from any other existing AF1s in the market. Let us take a look on what C2 has gotten far beyond his imagination.

Inspired by the Chinese antiques on display at the Hong Kong Museum of Art, C2 came up with a brilliant idea – to customize a Nike AF1 with the Chinese Porcelain design. He achieved this when he implemented the Chinese Porcelain style markings and patterns over a white upper. C2 applied an exclusive devotion to this project as he manually hand painted each design using a special ink inspired by the cobalt calligraphy ink originally used by the Chinese in painting porcelain Chinawares centuries ago.

The shoe features a very detailed set of patterns in royal blue ink that collaborates with the Nike branding embroidery on the heel panel and the inner lining itself. Check out C2Customs.com for more details.

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With so much to choose from, designer Shane Victorino came up with something distinctive and unique as he crafted his second pair of Nike Air Force 1 under the Nike Bespoke program. The theme is inspired by the Philadelphia Phillies team colors, red and blue making attractive complementary tones as the entire upper is dressed up in tan suede material giving a baseball mitt look.

So far, this Nike Air Force 1 Bespoke x Shane Victorino is among the most adorable projects ever made because of the lovely collaboration of minimalist tones such as that the tan base gains so much confidence with the crisscross stitching that melds all the panels as well as the red Swoosh outlined with blue, bottom eyelets in blue, red lace, and red midsole with white Air stamp.

If you notice, there is a silhouette of the Philadelphia skyline on the heel and on the tongue, replacing the Nike AF1 logo. Charcoal outsole and white leather heel tab are both cool accents. Thanks to Shane for another great AF1 Bespoke rendition.

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There is often a bit of controversy that surrounds the Nike Bespoke Air Force 1 and that is because some people think that it is way overpriced. If you ask us though the price is spot on because it allows only the people who are extremely serious about creating such a nice sneaker to be able to do so. If the sneakers were much cheaper than we would see them all over the place and then they would also lose a bit of their appeal because just anybody would be able to make a pair. Today we’re going to take a look at the latest version, this is the new Nike Air Force 1 Bespoke Bruce Lee.

This one definitely features a very interesting upper and is predominantly red but will have a textured material on top of some tan and beige sections as well.

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One of the things that people often say that they love so much about the Nike Air Force 1s is the fact that it has remained largely unchanged over the years. While we definitely have seen a couple brand-new versions the overall makeup and design of the shoe is pretty much the same as it was about 30 years ago. Sometimes the latest time for a change in the way that things are going in the world these days it seems like everything is getting much slimmer and lighter so no reason for the Air Force ones not to the same thing. Today we’re going to be taking a look at the latest example of that with the new Nike WMNS Air Force 1 Low Light Metallic Dark Gray.

These Air Force 1s will feature a much slimmer sole as well as not feature any inner lining to cut down on the weight and resistance of the shoe.

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With the Christmas season just ending a lot of us are really still in the mood for gift giving and gift receiving. While a lot of people lately have been trying to get of the commercialism of the Christmas season it is very hard and we just feel so good to give and receive gifts. Nike and the other brands in the sneaker world definitely understand this and that is why they release so many sneakers for the Christmas months. Sometimes though they also release a set of sneakers that is pretty much meant just be a gift. Today we’re going to be looking at an example of that with the new Nike Air Force 1 The Gift.

These ones will feature a canvas upper with leather on the ankle inner lining and a wrapped gift has been embroidered on the heel. They definitely feature a nice colorway and nice combination of materials.

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Have you received the most precious dream gift this Christmas? Or you are still dreaming that Santa would drop that wonderful present down your chimney. Sure you had friends and family giving you special stuff this holiday season but only 21 Mercer is able to give you the most wonderful present that you have long been asking – a pair of sneakers! Yes, it’s not just a dream but a dream come true for all sneakerheads who are die hard fans of the Nike Air Force 1 because Nike’s 21 Mercer studio has been giving away a special edition of the shoe dubbed as “The Gift”. The holiday promo has been up on Twitter and pairs have been given away.

If you want to know why this pack makes a buzz for the past week, here are the details that will surely make your jaw drop. This AF1 is basically made of charcoal canvas upper with red accents shown by the Swoosh, leather tongue branding, lace, heel spine, and the printed leather inner lining. Its special feature appears on the heel where an embroidered wrapped gift definitely makes a striking appeal.

For now, 21 Mercer has just announced through Twitter that there are still a few pairs of “The Gift” to be given away over the next few days. Catch ‘em!

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