Tom Sachs x Nike Craft General Purpose Shoe "Bricolage"
Style Code: DA6672-100
Tom Sachs x NikeCraft General Purpose Shoe "Bricolage"
Make something from what you have. The Tom Sachs x NikeCraft General Purpose Shoe "Bricolage" takes its name from the French concept of creative improvisation — the art of constructing something new not from purpose-built materials but from whatever is at hand, repurposed with imagination and recombined with intention. It is the philosophy that has defined Tom Sachs's entire creative practice, from his studio sculptures to his NASA installations to every shoe he has made with Nike. The GPS "Bricolage" is the most literal expression of that idea he has yet laced up and handed to the public.
The construction tells the story before the colorway does. The knitted upper — open enough to breathe, tight enough to resist a few raindrops — honors the knotting techniques used by explorers to navigate the world, the textile method chosen not for aesthetics but for the specific functional and historical significance it carries. The pine green pull straps are cut down from high-performance automotive seat belts — a material detail that would be invisible to most wearers and meaningful to everyone who learns it, which is exactly how Tom Sachs has always operated. The waffle-patterned outsole carries the origin story of Nike running in its geometry: it looks like a waffle because a waffle iron is how the running shoe was invented. The debossed "NIKE" logo on the heel appears in Tom Sachs's own handwriting, the branding as handmade as everything else about the shoe. Summit White and Birch across the upper meet pine green in the straps and pull tabs, with University Gold landing on the Swoosh in the accent color that gives the "Bricolage" its warmth and its signature visual contrast.
The General Purpose Shoe arrived as one of the most quietly significant objects in the NikeCraft collaboration — not a performance shoe, not a lifestyle shoe in the conventional sense, but a shoe designed for the person who moves through the world with their eyes open and their hands ready. "Bricolage" is not a new edition of that shoe. It is a new version of the argument — that what you have is enough, that imagination is the primary material, and that the things worth building are the ones assembled from what is already there.