Tom Sachs and Nike are showing some love to losers. That is, those who didn’t win the opportunity to purchase the artist’s much-hyped Mars Yard 3.0 .

The Tom Sachs x Nike General Purpose Shoe Participation Shoe is a new colorway available exclusively to purchase by I.S.R.U. app users who didn’t accumulate enough points to buy the Mars Yard 3.0. While primarily rendered in gray with yellowed elements to suggest aging, dashes of red include several placements for the I.S.R.U. logo. On the shoe’s medial side, you’ll even find a print of Sachs’ handwriting calling out the program.

This consolation prize serves as the first new edition of the General Purpose Shoe since 2023, when Sachs’ Nike partnership was put on pause because of allegations concerning the workplace environment as his

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