Nike Air Foamposite One "Denim"

Name: Nike Air Foamposite One "Denim"
Brand: Nike
SKU: 314996-404
Availability: InStock

Nike Air Foamposite One "Denim" — Obsidian/University Red-Black (314996-404)

The Nike Air Foamposite One "Denim" (314996-404) released Friday, September 28, 2018.

Original retail (2018): $230 · Lowest resale ask: $189 on GOAT (Oct 18, 2026)

Colorway: Obsidian/University Red-Black · Style code: 314996-404 · Release date: September 28, 2018 · Lowest resale ask: $189 · Availability: Available now

Source: GOAT's catalog · stores checked Oct 18, 2026, 4:53 PM ET · How we verify release dates

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About the Nike Air Foamposite One "Denim"

When the Foamposite One reached the court in 1997, nothing on a basketball floor looked like it. Eric Avar had been working on a shell inspired by the carapace of a beetle, and the manufacturing followed from that idea rather than from shoemaking: liquid polyurethane poured into a mould, cured under heat and pressure, and released as one continuous piece of upper with no panels and no stitching. Penny Hardaway saw a sample in a bag during a meeting with Avar and claimed it. He debuted it in the 1997 playoffs.

Underneath the shell sit a Zoom Air unit and a carbon-fibre shank through the midfoot, so the shoe was a genuine performance model rather than a sculpture.

The denim edition does something the original construction was not designed for. A textile finish is applied over the moulded shell, so the shoe reads as fabric while still being one rigid piece, with nubuck around the eyestay and a translucent outsole below. Nike coated the denim with a water-repellent treatment, since a fabric-faced shell would otherwise stain in weather the standard version shrugs off.

Written with AI from brand specs; facts checked against our catalog data on Sep 18, 2026.