Nike Air Foamposite One "Wu Tang"
The Nike Air Foamposite One "Wu Tang" (314996-701) released Monday, November 6, 2017.
Original retail (2017): $230 · Lowest resale ask: $425 on Flight Club (Nov 13, 2026)
Colorway: optic yellow/optic yellow-black · Style code: 314996-701 · Release date: November 6, 2017 · Lowest resale ask: $425 · Availability: Available now
Source: Nike's product feed · stores checked Nov 13, 2026, 4:54 AM ET
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About the Nike Air Foamposite One "Wu Tang"
The Foamposite One arrived in 1997 as a genuinely strange object: a moulded shell with no panels and no stitching, produced by pouring liquid polyurethane into a mould shaped around a foot. It was expensive for its era, and the design has barely changed since.
The yellow version is a case study in how sneaker names get made. Nike produced a small run of yellow-and-black Dunks for the Wu-Tang Clan in 1999, and that palette became shorthand for the group among collectors. When an Optic Yellow Foamposite arrived, the nickname transferred automatically, despite there being no connection between the two projects at all.
The execution is straightforward: the full shell in yellow, with black on the tongue, laces, liner, eyestay, carbon fibre shank and outsole.
Written with AI from brand specs; facts checked against our catalog data on Sep 18, 2026.