Nike Air Force 270 'Triple Black'
Colorway: Black/Black-Black · Style code: AH6772-010 · Release date: September 21, 2018 · Price: $164 · Availability: Available now
More colorways: Nike Air Force 270 'Wolf Grey' (AH6772-002) · Nike Air Force 270 Sneakers (AH6772-003) · Nike Air Force 270 'Safari' (AH6772-004) · Nike Air Force 270 'Carnivore' (AH6772-005) · Nike Air Force 270 'Black' (AH6772-006)
The Air Force 270 belongs to a run of hybrids Nike built in 2018, taking the upper language of one shoe and dropping it onto the sole of another. Here the donor is the Air Max 270, whose heel unit was the tallest Air bag the company had put under a lifestyle shoe: a full 270 degrees of visible volume, built for standing around rather than running. Above it sits Air Force 1 shorthand: tumbled leather across the toe and quarter, nylon at the eyestays and heel, a glossy Swoosh on the lateral side and a padded collar. The midfoot strap is the departure, closing over the laces with a buckle rather than the metal lace tag of the original. This all-black version strips the contrast out entirely, so the only thing separating the two halves of the shoe is texture. It arrived in September 2018 at a price above a standard Air Force 1, and the model had a short life (the hybrid experiments of that period mostly did), which makes surviving pairs more a record of a design direction than of a lasting silhouette.