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Billie Eilish has joined forces with Nike – the largest footwear company in the world – to release two vegan Air Jordan designs.
Vegan Nike sneakers
The musician, who is vegan herself, designed the sneakers with sustainability in mind. As well as being leather-free, the shoes contain more than 20 percent recycled material.
The Eilish collab resulted in a pair of tan-colored Air Jordan 15 sneakers.
Eilish told Nike, per Page Six, that the Air Jordan 15 has been her favorite style ‘since [she] knew what Jordans were’.
“When I got them … I looked at them as if they were $1 million sitting right in front of me,” she said.
“This is not a popular shoe and I don’t give a f*ck,” she added. “Because what you feel about something you love deeply is all that matters in the world.”
The seven-time Grammy Award-winner also designed new Air Jordan 1 KOs, available in the star’s signature slime green color.
“This color is such a classic, stupid, little ‘old me’ thing, I guess. I really wanted to kind of have almost like an ode to myself … this was me, for a while,” Eilish explained.
She told Nike that the style’s shape goes ‘with everything’.
“… With pants, with shorts, with dresses, with skirts … I love the way they make your legs look,” she said.
Both pairs come complete with Eilish’s Bloshsh logo, which she designed at just 14 or 15 (reports on her exact age vary).
Billie Eilish and vegan fashion
The collaboration isn’t Eilish’s first foray into vegan fashion. Just last week, the entertainer persuaded designer Oscar de la Renta to stop using fur in its designs.
In return, she agreed to wear one of the label’s gowns – which came with a 15-foot train – to the Met Gala.
“I’m honored to have been a catalyst and to have been heard on this matter,” she said about the move.
Eilish’s new Air Jordans launch on September 27 on store.billieeilish.com and September 30 on the Nike SNKRS app.
