Nike Air Max 90 'St. Patrick's Day'

Colorway: Pine Green/Mean Green/Spruce Aura/White/Metallic Gold · Style code: DD8555-300 · Release date: March 12, 2021 · Price: $200 · Availability: Available now

More colorways: Nike Air Max 90 (IR1979-010) · Nike Air Max 90 (Indianapolis Colts) (IW1137-001) · Nike Air Max 90 (Chicago Bears) (IW1138-400) · Nike Air Max 90 (Houston Texans) (IW1135-100) · Nike Air Max 90 (Jacksonville Jaguars) (IW1139-100)

About the Nike Air Max 90 'St. Patrick's Day'

Nike layers the greens rather than picking one. Pine Green sits deepest, Mean Green brightens the accents, and Spruce Aura provides a pale, almost mint tone for the panels, with white on the midsole and metallic gold on the small branding details. The gold is the holiday tell, standing in for the coin imagery the theme usually attracts. The mesh upper keeps the weight down and lets the three greens sit next to each other without the shoe looking heavy, which a full leather build in the same palette would.

Nike released it in March 2021 at $130. Seasonal releases on this silhouette work because the design breaks the upper into a lot of separately colourable pieces. A theme that would overwhelm a simpler shape gets distributed here across the toe, the mid-panels, the mudguard and the heel, so the result looks arranged rather than dumped on. The sole unit stays standard: visible heel Air, foam midsole, waffle-pattern rubber.