{"id":24839,"date":"2022-07-27T19:09:55","date_gmt":"2022-07-27T11:09:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/snkrdunk.com\/en\/magazine\/?p=24839"},"modified":"2022-07-29T08:14:22","modified_gmt":"2022-07-29T00:14:22","slug":"the-air-jordan-3-gets-a-desert-elephant-makeover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/snkrdunk.com\/en\/magazine\/2022\/07\/27\/the-air-jordan-3-gets-a-desert-elephant-makeover\/","title":{"rendered":"The Air Jordan 3 Gets a &#8220;Desert Elephant&#8221; Makeover"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Air Jordan 3 gets a lot of love from casual fans and aficionados worldwide. The brainchild of the &#8220;Michael Jordan&#8221; of sneaker design \u2014 Tinker Hatfield. The AJ3 was the pair that solidified His Airness&#8217; relationship with Nike.<\/p>\n<p>Reminiscent of the &#8220;Black Cement&#8221; from 1994, save for the iconic grayscale pattern, swapping it out with a more realistic take on the elephant\u2019s epidermal layer. It carries an aged aesthetic with rich textures and earth-tone colors, artfully contrasted by the tumbled black leather. This natural look is further complemented by the Fossil Stone shade on the tongue, collar and eyestay panels; only broken by the rush of orange on the underside of the tongue, the Jumpman, the eyestays, and the rear traction pad. The insoles gives nod to the Desert Elephant&#8217;s predecessor through an archaic artwork that&#8217;s also printed on the face on the shoebox.<\/p>\n<p>Jordan Brand has adopted a more lifestyle-focused take with its releases, but we love them all the more for it.<\/p>\n<p>If you came here to see a different take on the Black Cement, have a first look at its brother from another mother \u2014 the <a title=\"Air Jordan 1 Retro High \u201cWhite Cement\u201d\" href=\"https:\/\/snkrdunk.com\/en\/magazine\/2022\/07\/27\/first-look-air-jordan-1-retro-high-white-cement-2023\/\">Air Jordan 1 Retro High \u201cWhite Cement\u201d<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/snkrdunk_int\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-22285 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/snkrdunk.s3.ap-northeast-1.amazonaws.com\/en\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/20154621\/Magazine-Bottom-Banner-copy.webp\" alt=\"Magazine-Bottom-Banner\" width=\"970\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/snkrdunk.s3.ap-northeast-1.amazonaws.com\/en\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/20154621\/Magazine-Bottom-Banner-copy.webp 970w, https:\/\/snkrdunk.s3.ap-northeast-1.amazonaws.com\/en\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/20154621\/Magazine-Bottom-Banner-copy-300x93.webp 300w, https:\/\/snkrdunk.s3.ap-northeast-1.amazonaws.com\/en\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/20154621\/Magazine-Bottom-Banner-copy-768x238.webp 768w, https:\/\/snkrdunk.s3.ap-northeast-1.amazonaws.com\/en\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/20154621\/Magazine-Bottom-Banner-copy-282x87.webp 282w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 970px) 100vw, 970px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Air Jordan 3 gets a lot of love from casual fans and aficionados worldwide. The brainchild of the &#8220;Michael Jordan&#8221; of sneaker design \u2014 Tinker Hatfield. The AJ3 was the pair that solidified His Airness&#8217; relationship with Nike. Reminiscent of the &#8220;Black Cement&#8221; from 1994, save for the iconic grayscale pattern, swapping it out [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":43,"featured_media":24840,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,2,21,18,3,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-air-jordan","category-brands","category-calendar","category-latest-news","category-nike","category-releases"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/snkrdunk.com\/en\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24839"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/snkrdunk.com\/en\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/snkrdunk.com\/en\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snkrdunk.com\/en\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/43"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snkrdunk.com\/en\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24839"}],"version-history":[{"count":32,"href":"https:\/\/snkrdunk.com\/en\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24839\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25234,"href":"https:\/\/snkrdunk.com\/en\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24839\/revisions\/25234"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snkrdunk.com\/en\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/snkrdunk.com\/en\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snkrdunk.com\/en\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snkrdunk.com\/en\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}