Nike Air Force 1 '07 'Players'
Colorway: White/ Metallic-Gold · Style code: 315092-171 · Release date: 2008 · Price: $560 · Availability: Available now
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The six players are the story. In 1983 Nike put Moses Malone, Michael Cooper, Jamaal Wilkes, Bobby Jones, Mychal Thompson and Calvin Natt in the shoe and shot them standing on a runway in long coats, playing off the name it shares with the presidential aircraft. The group has been known ever since as the Original Six, and the advertisement is among the most reproduced Nike ever ran.
This pair lifts an image from that campaign and prints it onto the shoe. The base is white leather, kept plain so the graphic has somewhere to sit, and metallic gold handles the accents, which is a commemorative choice rather than a design one. Underfoot, the original tooling is reproduced as it was: Air-Sole cushioning at the heel and the circular pivot pattern in the outsole that Bruce Kilgore drew for turning on a hardwood floor. Nike released it in 2008, a quarter-century after the advertisement it quotes.