Nike Air Force 1 SP 'Tisci'
Colorway: Vachetta Tan/Black · Style code: 669917-200 · Release date: October 16, 2014 · Price: $400 · Availability: Available now
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Vachetta is the untreated vegetable-tanned leather luggage makers use, and it behaves nothing like the sealed leather Nike normally puts on this shoe: it darkens and patinas with wear rather than staying the color it left the factory. Using it on an Air Force 1 was the point of the whole beige capsule. The decoration is restrained by comparison. A band of multicolored stripes runs across the tongue, which is the same motif that climbed the shaft on the taller shoes in the collection, and the insole carries Nike branding alongside the designer's own.
Riccardo Tisci, then creative director at Givenchy, released three Air Force 1 groups through 2014. White came first in March, black followed in July, and this beige set closed it out on the sixteenth of October at NikeLab doors, in the same lineup of low, mid, high and a women's knee-high boot. The low-top was the most accessible piece at $230.