Inside Palace’s First-Ever Nike Collaboration: ‘We Wanted to Do Something That Actually Meant Something’

It was a random Thursday afternoon in October when, like all great drops do, a teaser for the Palace x Nike collaboration appeared out of nowhere. Captioned “Dreams come true,” the moment the post hit Instagram, the timeline immediately combusted. After a year of nothing but blurry photos and wild speculation, all the rumors turned out to be true.

“We just had this really grand idea,” says Palace co-founder Lev Tanju over FaceTime. “Something that involved a sportswear brand, sure,…