Seeing pictures of sneakers isn't all the best way to form an honest opinion of them. As is the case with the soon to be release Nike AF1 Premium All Star QK designed by DJ Clark Kent. When I first saw this pair of premiums I thought to myself "Not too bad, I like the colorway, materials look aiight". But when I actually pulled them out of the box, there was so much more to be said that I just had to write a piece on these.

I hasn't been since the late 90's that Nike has used pebbled basketball leather on an AF1. For Clark to pull out two colors in that sick material is Mr. AF1 himself in rare form. I should have expected nothing less as he has been on a roll since becoming a major part of Nike's attention to the AF1 and direction of the brand. Clark used nothing but the best here. As if the smell of factory LN2 materials and glues marinating in the Nike box for a few deadstocked months before being cracked open doesn't give the exclusivity of this shoe away, the feel of the leather does volumes to get this point across.

Supple black butter soft leather adorns the toebox, frontal, eyestay and tongue alongside varsity maize contrast stitching. Radiant orange and purple from the SUNS color scheme tie the sneaker together perfectly at the side panel and heel with that luscious pebbled basketball leather Nike has abandoned for years. A double layered swoosh brings us back to the days of truly sick premiums like the Easters of '05. And to top it all off, Clark mates a black rubber midsole to a translucent gum outsole. Perfection!