Our Legacy on What's Coming With Nike: "It's Gonna Look Slow but Feel Fast."
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"We're here to start our journey with the biggest sports brand in the world," Our Legacy cofounder Jockum Hallin smilingly tells me on a beautiful autumn day in New York City. A few days prior, Our Legacy and Nike triumphantly announced their long-awaited partnership, rumors of which had been bouncing around the inner chambers of menswear for the past few years in the wake of OL's longstanding Converse collaboration.
People wanted Our Legacy x Nike because Our Legacy is, simply, the greatest brand in the world. It's luxury! It's unpretentious! It's wearable! It's actually interesting! It's the very epitome of good clothing, and bringing Our Legacy to Nike's scale is basically a guarantee of good stuff at a global scale.
"It's something that we'll do with Nike on multiple levels throughout our journey with them," Hallin tells me, wearing an upcycled Nike zip hoodie, "Silver Bullet" AM97s, and leather pants at secondhand store Procell. "We'll explore sport, so we're starting with, like, OG sportswear."
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