LeBron James wasn’t the only one who debuted his new signature shoe at the Olympics. If you played close attention to the Gold Medal game, you would have noticed Carmelo’s halftime wardrobe change. For most of the games he wore the Melo M4 but decided to give the world a sneak peak. Timing couldn’t have been any better.

The Melo M5 was designed by Footwear Design Director of Brand Jordan D’Wayne Edwards, which helps explain its similarities to the Jordan signature line. The same style side panel and exterior stitching like we saw on the Air Jordan XX3 as well as a ribbed plastic piece at the heel similar to the Air Jordan XIV.

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Foot Locker has released its third collection of sneakers that were designed in collaboration with Nike: “Magnificent7.” This collection is an introduction of 7 classical Nike styles. Each style has a theme that is depicted in various designs. The present Beijing collection is inspired by the Beijing Olympic Games and its “Bird’s Nest” stadium in Beijing. This big collection is a limited edition and sold at Foot Locker. The website is here.

The 7 classic Nike models enclosed in the “Nike Magnificent 7” are Air Max 1, Air Max BW, Air Max 95, Air Max 97, Air Max Ltd 2, Shox R4, Shox NZ and Nike Air Max 90. The designs are exclusive to Foot Locker. The criteria used in the designs were diverse style elements, materials and colors.

The colors that were used in the “Nike Magnificent 7 Beijing” Collection were related to the host country, China. The shoe lining and sole of each style have intense colors. Each shoe costs between $120-200 EUR and are sold exclusively at Foot Locker. This collection is a once in a lifetime collection as the Olympics venue will be rotated and the next new one in 2012 is London.

Desp One showed off some new Puma customs at his Custmsnkr.com blog linked here. These Puma First Rounds start off with a simple orange color that acts as a good base for the rest of the designer’s efforts. The black Puma symbol and heel wrap works well against the brighter orange color.

The primary design element used by Desp One is a spray effect added throughout the shoe. Desp One splattered white, gray and black paint on the heel as well as the eyelets to add an organized chaos to these First Rounds.

These custom First Rounds are the second version of this design for Desp One. The first version of Desp One’s First Rounds featured a orange/gray colorway with a wild splattering effect similar to this shoe. While the differences are subtle between the two sneakers, I think Desp One got it right with a more subtle splatter pattern on the second version.

Using inspiration for the luxury SUV Hummer, here’s the latest New Balance 575. This shoe uses a combination of patent leather and honeycomb mesh, along with a grey camouflage pattern for a unique appeal.

Two colorways are available – white and black. I much prefer the white model for a crisp, cleaner look. These shoes will be available on September 3rd at Atmos. Via Individual Sole.

“Jordan Brand All American Classic games started taking place in 2002, which have included the likes of Carmelo Anthony, LeBron James, Chris Paul, Rudy Gay, Kevin Durant and many many more…”

This particular pair was made for Point Guard Malcom Lee who will be attending UCLA this year. The Blue Teams PE is made of a white leather base. Baby blue and black are used as the accent colors. The arygle print side panels are mostly black pebbled leather, with a nice mixture of baby blue and white. Leezy, Malcolm’s nickname is stitched in navy on the outside of the lighter sock liner.

These were limited to only 10 pairs and were only given to the players on the teams and quite the beauty to look at, for those who feel the same way it’s said that a GR pair will be releasing sometime this December. More pictures and a side-by-side comparison of these and the Titaniums are available for your viewing pleasure.

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Nike continues their 18-Part 1World Series with the success of the ?uestLove Air Force One’s. This time giving LaDainian Tomlinson of the San Diego Chargers a crack at designing his own Air Force One. He sat down with Nike’s Jesse Leyva to create these lux-ed up sneakers. His personally designed Air Force One is composed of all croc. Most of the shoe is white but the baby blue swoosh and Lightning Bolt LT design is also made of croc. To make this shoe even more LT-esque the standard AF1′ lacelock has been swapped out and replaced with LaDainian’s jersey number, which can also be seen on the heel tab in baby blue. For those LT fans, his signature graces the tongue. Did I mention these have a nice icey translucent baby blue outsole?

Some might ask, why so plain? LaDainian wanted to create a shoe that he could wear with anything and if I might say myself, great job LT. I hope the success carries over onto the playing feild.These are set to drop sometime next month. Tons of pics after the jump!