Nike Run Defy White Black

Released on 20 December 2025 and part of the Run Defy line. This release has a mesh upper in White/Black. Running is the root of the company, not a category it added later. Nike exists because Bill Bowerman, a track coach at the University of Oregon, thought American runners were badly served, and because his former athlete Phil Knight was willing to sell Japanese running shoes out of his car at track meets from 1964. Bowerman later poured rubber into a waffle iron to get a lighter sole, which produced the 1972 Moon Shoe and the 1974 Waffle Trainer. The Run Defy, style code HM9594 102, sits at the accessible end of that inheritance, in plain White and Black. It is not the halo shoe, it is the daily one, which is the tier where Nike has always made its actual living.