November 14, 2025

Coldest Winter

Writer
Shane Stirling
Editor
Photographer
Nick Ciaglia
Videographer
Chris Baelenge
Winter 1995. Hip-hop icons started wearing hockey jerseys. Not because they played the game—because the aesthetic was undeniable. Bold colorways. Unapologetic swagger. Uniforms that became cultural statements.

Then came the basketball jerseys. Oversized. Iconic. Worn on stage, in videos, on street corners. The lines between music, sports, and style didn’t just blur—they dissolved completely.That’s the era we went back to. The moment when aesthetics and athletics became inextricable. When what you wore mattered as much as how you played.

Coldest Winter explores that confluence. Six custom jersey designs that capture the collision of music, art, design, and sports. Mid-90s Hardwood Classics meet NHL swagger meet hip-hop’s fearless approach to borrowing, remixing, and making it all their own.

We studied the blocking. The striping. The way a uniform could command a room before you even touched the ball. This isn’t costume. This is culture.

Here’s what matters: You’re not wearing nostalgia. You’re wearing a lineage.The same energy that made rap icons reach for hockey jerseys—that refusal to stay in prescribed lanes, that understanding that style and substance aren’t opposites—that’s what drives you onto our courts at 40, 45, 50.

You refuse categories. You reject timelines. You understand that being an athlete and an aesthete aren’t contradictions—they’re the same damn thing.

Coldest Winter is for the ones who know that basketball isn’t just competition. It’s community. It’s culture. It’s the third place where we show up unfiltered, where weakness becomes wisdom, where the game is never just the game.

They’ll say your best days are behind you. They’ll call you washed. They’ll try to timestamp your talent.

We know better.

Six designs. Bold colorways. Clean lines. The confluence of everything that made the mid-90s matter—when music sampled sports, sports borrowed from fashion, and culture moved as one unstoppable force.

This is how we honor your game. This is Coldest Winter.

Always fresh. Never washed.

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