Dunk Low Pro SB "Tiffany"

The Diamond Dunk is one of the most recognizable Nike SB releases ever made, and most people know it by a color rather than a name. Nick Tershay, who built Diamond Supply Co out of skateboarding’s hardware and accessory world, designed the shoe in 2005 around the robin’s-egg blue associated with Tiffany and Co, set against black cracked patent leather and finished with a contrasting sole. The nickname stuck so hard that the colorway itself became shorthand, and to this day a teal-and-black sneaker gets called a Tiffany regardless of who made it.

That is rare cultural reach for a single pair. The shoe arrived during the peak years of the SB Dunk, when a steady run of collaborations turned a skate shoe into a collector’s market, and the Diamond pair sat near the top of that hierarchy almost immediately. Its appeal was never loud graphics or a complicated story. It was one perfect color, applied with restraint, on a silhouette the skate world had already embraced. Diamond and Nike SB returned to the partnership in later years with new takes, but the 2005 original is the one that defined it. For the archive the Tiffany is a useful marker of how powerful a simple, well-chosen palette can be, and of the moment when the SB Dunk became a cornerstone of sneaker collecting.