Nike Mind 002 Thunder Blue Chrome

The Mind line is Nike designing for the hours around performance rather than the performance itself, opened by the 001 pregame mule. The 002 continues that idea in thunder blue with chrome, a deep saturated blue that reads closer to team kit than to recovery pastel, with the chrome used as a reflective counterpoint. Nike has had licence to do this kind of work since it stopped being a distributor: the company was Blue Ribbon Sports importing Onitsuka Tiger until 1972, and everything after that has been its own product thinking. Style code HQ4308-400 places this in the blue family of the line. It is a shoe for the routine, not the result.