Nike Air Max 90 Essential 'Hyper Jade'
Colorway: White/Black-Hyper Jade · Style code: AJ1285-103 · Release date: April 12, 2019 · Price: $380 · Availability: Available now
More colorways: Nike Air Max 90 Essential 'Sport Turquoise' (AJ1285-001) · Nike Air Max 90 Sneakers (AJ1285-003) · Nike Air Max 90 Essential Sneakers (AJ1285-007) · Nike Air Max 90 Essential 'Black' (AJ1285-011) · Nike Air Max 90 Essential 'Bright Crimson' (AJ1285-012)
Hyper Jade sits against white leather and black mesh here, with the green picking out the tongue label, the heel tab and the stripe along the midsole. That mix is why buyers often reach for a second name, Grape: the same jade tone ran on the Air Jordan 5 and turned the shade into a talking point long before it landed on this silhouette.
Nike sold the shoe through its Essential tier, the standard leather-and-mesh build of the 90, at $110 in April 2019. The rest is stock: a visible Air unit in the heel framed by the moulded plastic window the model is known for, stacked panels that break the upper into blocks, and a waffle-pattern rubber outsole. The silhouette itself came from Tinker Hatfield and launched in 1990 as the Air Max III, taking its current name only once Nike started reissuing it. For anyone tracking the green-accented run of 90s, this is one of the cleaner white-based examples: three colours, no gradients, no printed graphics.