Futura Laboratories x Nike Dunk Low SB 'Sunblush' Friends & Family
Colorway: University Gold/Sunblush/Old Royal · Style code: HF6061-700 · Price: $12059 · Availability: Available now
More colorways: Futura Laboratories x Nike Dunk Low SB 'Bleached Aqua' (HF6061-400) · Futura Laboratories x Nike Dunk Low SB 'Bleached Aqua' Sample (HF6061-400-1641116)
Futura has worked with Nike on and off since the 2000s, and the pairing makes particular sense inside the skate line: the artist's abstract, atomised spraycan work grew out of the same New York that the Dunk's early skate run was documenting. This Friends and Family version pushes the pattern further than the pair that reached shops. A yellow gradient climbs the quarter panel so the colour thins as it rises, an effect closer to a fading spray pass than to conventional panel blocking, and it is set against a coral Swoosh rather than a matching one. Canvas rather than leather carries the upper, keeping the surface flat enough for the graphics to read cleanly. Blue appears in the collar and lining as the third note. Pairs of this kind are produced in small runs for the collaborator's circle and staff and never enter the retail chain, so they sit alongside the public colourway rather than replacing it: the same design language resolved for an audience of a few hundred people. Underneath it remains a standard skate Dunk: padded tongue, reinforced collar, a Zoom Air unit in the heel.