Bad Guy, Good Kicks: Billie Eilish is launching a sneaker collaboration with Nike.
Billie Eilish is stepping back into the spotlight—this time, with a fresh pair of kicks: The singer announced Tuesday that she will be releasing Air Jordan 15 and Air Jordan 1 KO styles in collaboration with Nike.
Scheduled to drop on September 27th and 30th—on Eilish’s online store and Nike’s SNKR site, respectively—the sneakers are vegan and made from more than 20% recycled materials, fitting for a star who wore Oscar de la Renta go fur-free as a condition of wearing the designer to the recent Met Gala.
“You can make cool s***t and you don’t have to be wasteful,” she said in a video for Nike on the collection.
Going Green: Eilish's sneakers are vegan with more than 20% recycled material.
The designs also come with a healthy dose of nostalgia: The Air Jordan 1s are green, an ode to her iconic former hair color.
“This color is such a classic, stupid, little ‘old me’ thing, I guess,” Eilish said. “I really wanted to have almost a kind of ode to myself, in an appreciative way, in a kind of sentimental way.”
But what she really loves about the Air Jordan 1 KOs are their style. “These are the best shape, with anything—with pants, with shorts, with dresses, with skirts,” she said, a fact which she herself has proven, sporting them countless times on stage.
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The 15s, meanwhile, honor Eilish’s present aesthetic in their neutral tan. “The 15s have actually been my favorite Jordan, since I knew what Jordans were,” she said. “I begged for the 15s, in the black and the red, and when I got them...I looked at them as if they were $1 million sitting right in front of me.”
Inspired by NASA’s X-15 fighter jet, the 15s are “not a popular shoe,” Eilish continued, “and I don’t give a f***k. Because what you feel about something you love deeply is all that matters in the world.”
