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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...recent Friday night, Dominique Thomas had been camped outside the Niketown store in South Miami for two full days. Thomas, who goes by the street name DK the Line Pimp, had flown in from Denver and was first in line to buy the $100 Cowboy Air Max 180s, which were scheduled to go on sale at 10 that night. Just 140 pairs of these limited-edition sneakers--a hunter green, lizard-skin design with a light pink Swoosh--were manufactured, and they would be sold only at the Miami store and only that night. As a snaking line of mostly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Freaking for Sneakers | 3/5/2006 | See Source »

...Jungen's most crucial moment of inspiration for the Proto- types came during a trip to New York City in the late '90s, when he wandered into Manhattan's enormous Niketown store, where athletic shoes are displayed in glass cases like precious objects. "I came there straight from the Metropolitan Museum," he says. "I was fascinated that the Nikes were on display in this museum-like environment." From there, it was just a short step to making Nike-like things for a real museum. As opposed to a lot of art that plays seriously with ideas, Jungen's masks, some...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Commercial Vision | 2/6/2006 | See Source »

PSLM members--many of whom spent Saturday protesting in front of Boston's Niketown--say the colossal collegiate apparel contract makes them wary...

Author: By Daniela J. Lamas, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: PSLM Rates Top Presidential Contenders | 3/5/2001 | See Source »

From the Gap, the demonstrators--carrying the pot of soup--moved across the street to gather outside Niketown...

Author: By Daniela J. Lamas, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Students Stage Downtown Labor Protest | 12/18/2000 | See Source »

While chanting, the students attempted to dissuade shoppers from entering the Gap and Niketown...

Author: By Daniela J. Lamas, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Students Stage Downtown Labor Protest | 12/18/2000 | See Source »

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