The Virgil Abloh Archives x Air Jordan 1 (AA3834-100) releases globally on April 3, 2026, but fans attending ComplexCom Hong Kong will have a chance to get the coveted release early.
The ComplexCon Hong Kong release release as a part of the V.A.A. World’s Fair activations which began this past weekend in Los Angeles and will continue throughout March 2026 in cities also including Chicago, New York, London, Paris, Tokyo.
In an exclusive interview with Complex’s Joe La Puma, Virgil Abloh Archive director Mahfuz Sultan explained why activating in Hong Kong was so important for the release. “Hong Kong is where he opened his first store, and so it has a special kind of history for V. … Virgil really committed to street culture, streetwear, fashion culture in Asia, very, very early on in his journey as a designer, and obviously idolized Nigo and Hiroshi. And so ComplexCon Hong Kong felt right.”
As for what attendees of the festival can expect, Sultan didn’t want to give too much away, but teased that “we thought it would be really, really interesting to extract fragments of the exhibition in Paris and do something over there in Hong Kong for people that weren’t able to travel and see it. I’m being deliberately vague, but I would describe it as a mini exhibition of sorts, like a mini Codes of sorts.”
The all-white Off-White x Air Jordan 1 (as it was then known) originally released as a European exclusive in 2018. Its return, now branded “V.A.A. for Nike,” marks the first global release from the Virgil Abloh Archive.
ComplexCon Hong Kong takes place the weekend of March 21 and 22.
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