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Virgil Abloh may have been feeling reminiscent while watching ESPN’s Michael Jordan docu-series, The Last Dance, when he shared a shot of the very first Off-White™ x Nike Air Jordan 1 sample on Sunday night.

The image, which Abloh shared to his Instagram, shows an off-the-shelf pair of all-white Air Jordan 1s that Abloh deconstructed using an X-Acto knife. The designer captioned the photo: “there was a time when getting Michael Jordan’s autograph was a major life goal... ⁣an exacto knife and this off the shelf pair of Jordan 1’s and The Ten came to fruition. this is the exact pair that kicked off an epiphany.”

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The image is from 2016 and the sneaker laid the groundwork for one of the most radical approaches to sneaker collaborations we’ve ever seen. Abloh and Nike combined on a collection of ten collaborative sneakers in late 2017, which has now extended over two years and comprises well over thirty pairs of sneakers.

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