Designer Melitta Baumeister Swirls Black and Orange on Hand-Painted Nike Vomero Premium Collab

Creating movement out of a piece of static fashion, like a sculpture or a sneaker, is a tall task. For NYC-based fashion designer Melitta Baumeister, the challenge of crafting a running shoe that felt like it was constantly in motion was the inspiration behind her first collab with Nike, a hand-painted take on the Vomero Premium in orange and black.

The Melitta Baumeister x Nike Vomero Premium debuted at a New York City installation and performance in late October, and now we have more photos of the pair and a release date for the experimental colorway. Dipping the shoe in an orange base, the Baumeister colorway adds hand-painted black overlays across the entire sneaker in a style somewhere between charred soot and ink smudges. The shoe adds a black Swoosh and AIR logo to the side panel with Melitta Baumeister branding in white on top of it.