Nike Air Force 1

In 1982, the Nike Air Force 1, the basketball shoe that would revolutionize the sneakers standard, was released. Nike Air Force 1, a model created by Bruce Kilgore, boasts the extraordinary characteristic of being the first basketball shoe to use Nike Air technology, the innovative air unit in the heel for cushioning and support. Nike Air Force 1 becomes an immediate success, from N.B.A. players to the children in street playgrounds, everyone wears it, creating the roots of a myth that has since been used as a canvas by artists and designers of all kinds. Among the very first to test the novelty introduced by the Nike Air Force 1, there was a young man named Tinker Hatfield, who joined Nike in 1981 as a corporate architect, amazed by the performance of the shoe, Hatfield began to think that his skills would have been better suited to design Nike sports shoes than their corporate facilities. A couple of years later Hatfield designed the Air Jordan, becoming the legend we know today. Continuously updated to reflect the trend of the moment, without ever sacrificing its DNA, the Nike Air Force 1 thus becomes a global icon of street culture, thanks also to the support of rappers and producers such as Dr. Dre, Nas, Rakim , KRS-One, DJ Premier, Jay-Z, Nelly, just to name a small part.

Sneakerheads of the caliber of Bobbito Garcia and DJ Clark Kent also create the basis for a further growth of the Nike Air Force 1, the one from the point of view of collecting, opening a long list of brands, artists and designers ready to uniquely customize the model and making it one of the most popular products in the world of sneakers. After over thirty years of success and over 1,700 color variations, the Nike Air Force 1 is offered several versions, from the most classic to the most technical, and its continuous rise seems not to want to slow down at all.

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