Nike Zoom Mercurial Vapor 16 Elite FG 'Blueprint Pack'
Colorway: White/Racer Blue · Style code: HJ4188-100 · Release date: July 3, 2024 · Price: $310 · Availability: Available now
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The Blueprint pack is a reference to how Nike started. Bill Bowerman, the coach who co-founded the company and made shoes by hand for his own runners, supplied the design cues: a speckled Swoosh, and sketches of feet printed on the insole of the sort someone would draw while working out a last.
What it is applied to is the opposite of handmade. The sixteenth Mercurial Vapor Elite uses a white Flyknit base with AtomKnit side panels and Gripknit overlays, a tacky material meant to hold the ball in wet and dry conditions alike, and it wraps an oversized AIR graphic around the heel. A three-quarter length Zoom Air unit runs under the foot, engaged by a cascading traction pattern at the forefoot that presses more of the unit into the ground on contact.
It was released in July 2024 at $270, with racer blue as the accent against the white upper.