Savannah Oh turns vintage Nike jerseys into New York streetwear

Savannah Oh’s Nike project took football jerseys out of the stands and cut them into New York streetwear with sharper lines and a much smaller supply. The June 23 launch landed at 47 Chrystie St. in Chinatown, inside Nike’s World Cup pop-up, where the brand has turned a modest retail address into a tightly edited football-world outpost.

Oh’s strongest move was to treat jerseys as fabric, not memorabilia. SoccerBible described the release as a 30-piece one-of-one collection of skirts made from more than 30 vintage Nike pieces, while Hypebae’s coverage traced the source material to current and retro Nike jerseys from Barcelona, Portugal and Nigeria. Those references were transformed into fishtail skirts and mini bikini tops, a shift that pushed the project far beyond literal fan gear and into the language of fashion construction.

The result sat comfortably in the blokecore conversation without feeling like a costume. Oh’s cuts gave the jersey weight and shape, then redirected the sport graphics into silhouettes with a little more tension and a lot more polish. One account put the capsule at more than 40 pieces, extending the mix into corsets and asymmetrical sets, which only sharpened the impression that this was designed as a full wardrobe idea, not a novelty drop built around a single hit item.

The Chinatown setting amplified that point. Nike opened the 47 Chrystie St. activation on June 12, and SneakerNews noted that the space also stocked merchandise from Nike’s X2 football collections, alongside a preview of the Air Jordan Cryoshot. That made Oh’s capsule feel like the fashion-forward node in a larger football retail story, one that threaded through New York with a specific street-level address and a highly local sense of scarcity.

Nike’s broader 2026 FIFA World Cup program stretches across seven capsule collections, and Hypebeast says each Nike X2 World Cup capsule is built around three partners: a national federation, a cultural collaborator and a community youth sport organization. Oh’s collaboration fits that formula in a more intimate register. It gives Nike a designer voice with a custom language of reconstruction, while giving football imagery the kind of tailoring and silhouette play that makes it read as fashion first.