Scarr's Pizza x Nike Air Force 1 Low 'Friends and Family'
Colorway: White/Deep Royal Blue · Style code: CN3424-100 · Release date: August 7, 2019 · Price: $50059 · Availability: Available now
Scarr's Pizza opened on Orchard Street in 2017, a Lower East Side counter that mills its own flour and quickly became a hangout for the neighbourhood's skate, art and music crowd. The shoe grew out of that room rather than a corporate brief. Owner Scarr Pimentel and shop staffer Audie Villot wanted an Air Force 1 that read like the pairs they grew up on in New York, and they worked the restaurant into it as an address rather than a logo. Heel embroidery carries the shop's name, the tongue label prints the Orchard Street location, and the phone number sits across the forefoot in reflective material so it only reveals itself under a camera flash. Nothing about the build strays from the 1982 original: white leather, a single contrast colour, the same heavy midsole Bruce Kilgore drew for basketball. Production ran in the dozens rather than the thousands and none of it reached a shelf; pairs moved through the restaurant's own circle, which is why the model now surfaces in auction catalogues more often than in resale listings. Talk of a wider public release circulated years later without this colour ever arriving.