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For the current version of Mr. Bryant's shoe, Atlas Cube Earrings Zoom Kobe V, Mr. Avar took the herringbone design common on sneaker soles because it helps with traction, and transformed it into the spiked pattern seen on heart rate monitors. "How can we take that proven geometry and put a twist on it?" he said. "We tried to get Kobe's actual EKG but Elsa Peretti Teardrop Earrings didn't quite work out." For the upcoming version, the herringbone pattern turned into a black mamba's scales.

For the Zoom Kobe V, Mr. Avar borrowed an idea from a book Mr. Bryant was reading, Dan Brown's "The Da Vinci Code," and made up a linear code with graphic artists using some of Mr. Bryant's statistics. It is the basis for a series of inscriptions on the Paloma's Zellige drop earrings of the shoe that puzzled sneakerheads. In the secret code, they spell the word heart.Mr. Avar, whose father was a mechanical engineer and mother an artist, initially planned to follow in his father's career footsteps.

But he was enthralled when he saw a designer's diagram of a Nike Air Stab while working at Athlete's Foot in the late 1980s and persuaded a dean at Elsa Peretti Teardrop drop earrings Institute of Technology to let him specialize in the subject. After a six-month pit stop at archrival Adidas, he joined Nike.But he doesn't let his reverence for past designs limit his sense of what's possible.