Nike Sportswear has partnered with design heavyweights Cassette Playa of London and Parra of Amsterdam, challenging them to create their own sports team. Rivalry is the energy that keeps teams striving for more. It’s the challenge of facing up to your fears. It’s battling against opposition to come out on top. Rivalry is a sportsman’s driving force, thus directs the spirit of this collection.
In this tempestuous collaboration, Cassette Playa and Parra use Nike Sportwear’s iconic designs and remix them. The pair draws on classic collegiate layouts; adding their own trademark directional flavour. The Nike Sportswear Rivalry Collection is a tribute to the combative spirit that makes sport everlasting.
Set against a backdrop of 2012 apocalypse Cassette Playa’s Chimeras’ are a group to be reckoned with. Speaking of her team Cassette Playa describes them as ‘Mutant fusions of Earth creatures, the chimeras are fearless and dedicated to winning. Rivals with other surviving Earth creatures, but also their own enemy, they have a two sided brain that competes against itself, caught in an infinite internal battle.’
A wash of radioactive acid greens, fluro-oranges, fuschias and blues the Chimeras team colours are an assault on your senses. In teams of three, Chimeras are vicious little mutants that play hard.
The shoes come in a black ripstop premium upper, clear swooshes and a sharp orange outsole.
About Cassette Playa
Cassette Playa, aka Carri Mundane was nominated for Menswear Designer of the year 2007, named ‘Best Fashion Designer’ by Rolling Stones Magazine in 2008. The London based Global brand is a toxic mix of streetwear and luxury, combining sci fi futurist graphics with cyber symbolist digital print. Cassette Playa has styled and dressed MIA, Klaxons, Chromeo. It is also worn by Kanye West, Rhianna, MGMT, Lupe Fiasco, Ciara DJ Semtex and Roll Deep. Her clothes are sold internationally including Dover Street Market London and Colette Paris.
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