JONATHAN ANDERSON JUST TROLLED SNEAKER HEADS WITH DIOR

Jonathan Anderson just made his first Dior sneaker and it's a certified deep cut. The Roadie looks like someone took a 2005 Nike Considered boot, hit it with a suede moccasin makeover, and slapped Dior's $1,200 tax on it. Most people will see a weird flat-soled boot. Sneaker nerds will see a direct archive raid. That two-piece sole unit? Stolen from Nike's forgotten Considered line. The hairy suede vamp? Same construction. Anderson's not being subtle—he's flexing. This is the anti-Kim Jones move. For seven years, Kim Jones made Dior sneakers that felt like luxury versions of things you already knew: B23s (luxe Chuck Taylors), Dior x Jordan 1s, Birkenstock clogs. Safe bets. Anderson is doing the opposite. He's mining obscure Nike history and betting that Dior's audience is cultured enough to catch the reference. It's a play for credibility with the 0.1% of sneaker heads who actually know Nike Considered existed. Here's the wild part: Nike Considered was supposed to be the future. Launched in 2005 with Tinker Hatfield and a crew of heavyweight designers, it was Nike's sustainability play—glue-free, recyclable, forward-thinking. Too forward-thinking. It died quietly in the early 2010s because the world wasn't ready. Anderson just proved it was ahead of its time by making it luxury. That's not a coincidence. That's a thesis statement: Dior under Anderson is hunting for forgotten good ideas and making them relevant again.