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The Worldstar Hip Hop footage of American shopping mall skirmishes for Jordan XIs has become as much of a Christmas tradition for us as

Jimmy Stewart sprinting through town with a new lease of life. The eleventh Jordan is a masterpiece, but over here it's been more of a

basketball player or collector's shoe, whereas Stateside, it's a full-blown phenomenon. We always though the 'IE' low edition

(supposedly standing for International Edition) was made on a lack of faith in the patent-toed version's overseas appeal. There's been

plenty of tributes to the Concord colourway's unsurpassed mix of black, white and the blue that gave it its nickname, and you can feed

us all the 6-Ring editions in the world that clone the mesh and patent mix, but there's no substitute for the real thing. On its

release, this model blew minds, with Tinker's Japanese baseball cleat inspired pick of patent and MJ's belief that the shoe would get

worn with a tux (leading to the legendary "Told you so motherfucker" phone call after Boyz II Men's award show appearance, of which we

can find no video footage) paying off, and pushing sneaker design so far forward, that, as the retro preoccupation testifies, the world

still can't quite comprehend this colourway's Bugsy Malone futurism.

The Concord makeup is the definitive delivery of the message the design team were determined to convey — tux lux goes hardwood and

after the 1995 and 2000 versions sold out fast, this is an opportunity to get your hands on the Concord once more (we're not counting

the DMP edition as a proper retro here) before you've got to wait another decade. And at the current rate of XI mania, the 2022 reissue

would involve queueing from 1st January 2012 to secure a pair. We've seen complaints about the patent cut, and its definitely a little

different, and the colour of the outsole, but that translucent blue feels a little closer to the original than the 2000 edition, and is

less liable to go urine coloured as it slumbers. The blue iciness just ups the sci-fi styling of this masterpiece. 2009 was Space Jams

and 2010 was Cool Greys. They flew out.

We've never seen fever for a shoe like the constant contact for the Concord. If you're feeling smug about owning earlier issues, you

still need a pair of these in your collection to floss sufficiently without looking like you stepped in something bad. While we can

never quite understand why say, IIs, IVs, XIIIs or XVs seem to come in run-of-the-mill boxes, while the "Banned" Is, IIIs and Xis get

extra attention, that inconsistency doesn't diminish how good that slide-out effort is, complete with the plastic insert that curbs your

enthusiasm when you're looking to see the actual shoe. So why do XIs cause pandemonium, when the IIIs just instigate mild chaos? We put

that down to their once-a-year drop dates, a lack of Nike-to-Jumpman swaps to piss off purists and an abundance of Christmas cash.

People want these so much, that a link made accidentally live sans text or images earlier in the week generated so much word-of-mouth

traffic that is shut down the site for an hour. But don't worry — we've got a LOT of pairs in the store waiting to go live at midnight

for tomorrow's launch date. The price is ￡110, sizes are UK, global shipping is free and we're limiting orders to a maximum of two

pairs per customer. Good luck, and we guarantee that if you're a Concord appreciator, these don't disappoint in the flesh like some

other releases have of late. Now we're waiting for the midnight madness to commence.