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Last night Nike hosted a grand opening event for the Nike Sportswear Flagship Store located at 21 Mercer St in New York City. Spike Lee and Roger Federer unveiled the space and opened the doors to the select list of attendees. Inside the space we got to see Nike Sportswear’s lineup of footwear and apparel as well as interior fixture telling the story of Nike’s influence on athletics and sport culture.

Outside the space had a baseball stadium theme complete with hot dogs, popcorn, stadium seating, and mascots in the block of city streets closed off for the evening. Take a virtual tour of the new Nike Sportswear store after the jump as well as get a look at what products you can find in store.

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DGPH created for Nike Sportswear Argentina a series of 2 meter high (six feet) inflatable characters that were placed through out China Town to celebrate the opening of the Beijing Olympics last Friday. Further more they also created smaller collectible inflatables and laser-cut window displays.

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Nike Sportswear has launched a new portion of their website to showcase some of the upcoming marquee products that were explicitly created with the theme and spirit of the Olympics in mind. Check out the site to get the background and inspirations behind products such as the Windrunner and specific designs such as the Nike Dunk and Nike Air Force 1. Beyond the product showcases are interactive features as well such as a store finder, kicks creator and news updates. Look for more updates as they become available at the Nike Sportswear site.

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In one of “Sneaker Pimps” largest shows of the year, a last minute venue change didn’t stop the event from playing host to a ton of different acts and headlines. The event included musical performances with Public Enemy and Ghostface, artist exhibitions by tokidoki and Pocket Full of Monsters and video game previews of Street Fighter IV. However above all else the event featured tons of sneakers, both customs and regular releases. This show should equate to interesting developments down the road as the touring exhibition looks to diversify their shows even more to include elements of video games.

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This weekend was the release of the long anticipated Nike Air Force One “?uestlove”. The night before the actual release plenty of shoe fiends camped overnight at the location to guarantee themselves a pair, and of course to be the first ones to flaunt them off to their buddies. Celebrity friend Bun B from UGK even showed up to support and took the time out to mingle with the dedicated shoe heads. ?uestlove was very generous in making sure his supporters were very comfortable, throughout the day he had brought them 17 boxes of pizza as well as bottled water and even signed autographs and took pictures. ?uestlove was actually the first person to technically purchase his shoe. The first 5 customers in line got their pair free courtesy of the man himself.

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The Nike Air Force 1 x Pedro Winter (Busy P) collaboration has been a well documented project since we first gave you a look at it months ago. Now it seems these shoes will finally be released but unfortunately in limited numbers and only at colette. Pedro Winter aka Busy P is the man behind Ed Banger Records, known for his work with Daft Punk amongst other artists he’s considered to be one of Europe’s most influential people, hence the reason for him taking part in Nike’s Air Force 1 “Influencer Pack”. The shoes will be released on June 16th at colette with a retail price of €200 EUR which translates to about $311.

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What better way to pay tribute to one of the greatest running backs of our generation who just happens to love Nike Air Force 1´s? The ultra exclusive Innovative Kitchen in Beaverton put together an Nike Air Force 1 like no other for Chargers’ all-star running back Ladainian “LT” Tomlinson. Going the distance, the Nike Air Force 1 designed by JB is packaged with a crazy sliding box with many intricate details seen on the metallic upper. Extensive lasering can be seen throughout. With anything of this nature, don’t expect to ever see more then the sole pair made for LT.

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Thursday night (April 24th) was the 3rd Annual Sneakerfriends party hosted by ATL’s own Greg Street. This year was full of sneakers and fun at the Fox Theatre. Thanks to all the A-Town heads and everyone else that attended the event. This year crushed last year’s Sneakerfriends party and it was also better than the 2006 party. Tons of pics available for your viewing pleasure.

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