Nike Dunk Low Retro "Super Mario"
Style Code: IV2706-010
Chicago energy, freshly calibrated. The Nike Dunk Low Retro "Black/University Red" takes one of the most proven color combinations in sneaker history and redelivers it with enough intention to justify its own place in the Dunk's long lineage of red and black executions. This is not a colorway that arrived by accident — it arrived because red, white, and black on a Dunk has never once been wrong, and the addition of University Gold confirms that this version has something new to say within that familiar language.
The black leather base commands the toe box, sides, and collar with the grounded authority of a color that has always known its role in this palette — the foundation that makes everything above it possible. University Red dominates the overlays, the Swoosh, the heel, and the outsole with the full-conviction saturation that the color has carried in Chicago's cultural vocabulary for decades, while white lands on the rear paneling, heel tab, and midsole with the clean precision that keeps the red from closing in on itself. The University Gold accent arrives at exactly the right moment — a tone that shifts the entire reading of the shoe, pulling the palette away from pure Chicago reference and into something that feels current, considered, and entirely its own.
The Dunk Low's classic two-panel construction, padded collar, and cupsole sit beneath the colorway exactly as they always have — unchanged, reliable, and entirely at home in red, black, white, and gold. The combination has worked before. In this execution, it works again, and it works differently. That is the standard. The "Black/University Red" meets it.