Nike Wmns Air Force 1 Sage Low 'Desert Ore'
Colorway: Desert Ore/White-Desert Ore · Style code: AR5339-202 · Release date: March 19, 2019 · Price: $2482 · Availability: Available now
More colorways: Women's Nike Air Force 1 Sage Low (AR5339-100) · Nike Wmns Air Force 1 Sage Low 'Black' (AR5339-002) · Nike Wmns Air Force 1 Sage Low 'Cool Grey' (AR5339-003) · Nike Wmns Air Force 1 'Brown' (AR5339-004) · Nike Wmns Air Force 1 Sage Low 'Sail Guava Ice' (AR5339-101)
Sage was one of five personalities Nike's women designers worked to when they took the Air Force 1 apart in 2018, and the low version is the most wearable thing that came out of it. The changes are all below the ankle: the midsole is built up into a platform considerably taller than standard tooling, and the upper is simplified so it does not compete with the extra bulk underneath.
Desert Ore suits that. It is a pale warm sand, applied across most of the shoe with white used to separate the sole from the upper, and on a silhouette this heavy a soft neutral keeps the proportions from reading as clumsy. The Sage Low was priced at $100, the same as a general-release leather low-top despite the extra tooling, which is unusual for a reworked silhouette. Nike kept it in women's sizing throughout, as it did with the rest of the range.