Swarovski x Nike Wmns Air Force 1 LXX 'White'
Colorway: White/White/White · Style code: CV7668-100 · Release date: December 2, 2021 · Price: $334 · Availability: Available now
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The crystals here are not decoration in the usual sense. Swarovski made them unfaceted and retroreflective specifically for Nike, modeled on the reflectors set into road surfaces, so they bounce light straight back at its source rather than scattering it. In daylight the shoe is plain white. Under a camera flash or headlights the panels light up.
They are mounted on a modular shroud in four pieces, screwed down onto the leather upper rather than glued or stitched, which means the owner can take them off. A miniature screwdriver with a crystal set into its handle ships in the box for exactly that purpose. There are 228 crystals across the set. Underneath the hardware the shoe is unchanged: white leather, a white rubber cupsole, and an Air unit encapsulated under the heel. Nike released it in women's sizing on the second of December 2021 at $450, which is close to four times the price of the leather low-top it is built on.