It’s a sneaker that sneaker enthusiasts know well: the Nike Air Max 97 model. Except here, it has been revised and corrected by rapper Lil Nas X. A limited edition of 666 pairs, the devil’s number, has been released. The shoe features a sole that contains an air bubble colored in red ink and an actual drop of human blood, CNN has reported. They are sold at a price of $ 1,018 a pair, referring to the passage in the Bible Luke chapter 10, verse 18 that says: “I saw Satan fall from heaven like lightning.”

All without the agreement of Nike, which was careful to distance itself from the project by declaring “not having approved the approach.” A fun practice that the Brooklyn-based US arts group MSCHF, founded in 2016, has embraced for several years. In fact, he is known for thrilling crowds with crazy fashion projects like the shoes Jesus, a pair of Nike shoes with soles filled with holy water or, more recently, Birkenstock flip-flops designed with the leather of Birkin bags signed by Hermés.

The launch of the “Perverse sneakers” took place yesterday, provoking all kinds of comments on social networks, especially by the most conservative and religious voices in the United States who denounced that these Zapaticos would lead the youth to “perversion”.

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