Michael Rubin Reveals How Travis Scott's 'White Party' Jordan 1s Happened

The Complex Sneakers Podcast

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🗓️ 16 August 2024

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Summary

Michael Rubin is a billionaire, entrepreneur, and close personal friend to Travis Scott. In this conversation, he talks about Travis’ sneaker business, and even dishes a bit on the ‘White Party’ version of the Travis Scott x Air Jordan 1 Low that popped up this summer. Rubin also talks about Jay-Z gifting him Louis Vuitton Air Force 1s, recounts a business meeting with Nike co-founder Phil Knight, and talks about his own history reselling sneakers in the '90s. At the top of the episode, co-hosts Joe La Puma, Brendan Dunne, and Matt Welty talk Noah Lyles’ sneaker wish, hunting down rare footwear, and the Wizard of Oz x Nike SB Dunk Low.

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0:00.0	What's up everybody?
0:02.8	Joe Lu Puma, you were listening, you were watching the Complex Sneaker Show,
0:05.7	as always I'm joined by my two co-host, my two friends.
0:08.4	First off, to my right, Mr. Matt Welty.
0:10.6	It's summer and we're here. It's been summer. We are here to my left.
0:15.2	Mr Brendan Dunn, fresh off the jet again. Yeah, I guess so. Back from Paris, how you doing?
0:20.6	I'm all right, I'm a little tired, but I feel okay. Big week, big guest. What else are we getting into?
0:27.0	I want to address some of the feedback to our sneaker power ranking, the collaborator list, as usual people I plan to say
0:34.1	some Olympic footwear also that I think is worth touching on yeah we're gonna talk about
0:38.4	Noel Liles Michael Johnson sprinters getting shoesinter's getting shoes.
0:42.8	It's getting spicy.
0:43.7	Yeah.
0:44.7	And of course, Michael Rubin is here,
0:45.7	founder and CEO of Fanatics,
0:48.0	right in time for Fanatics Fest.
0:50.3	Mm-hmm.
0:51.2	Busy week, a lot of stuff, a lot of of do we want to say fallout fall out for more recent
0:57.4	lists from the I don't know are we going there too soon look look look we put out a
1:01.9	list of the sneaker collaborator Power rankings and we invited
1:06.5	an episode on it too and we did an episode on it here and we invited feedback
1:09.7	we invited commentary so any of that negative, or neutral is what we
1:15.0	asked for and we will take it and we will process it and some of it will even
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