Air Jordan 1 RETRO High Satin Black Toe

Designed by Peter Moore and released on 16 August 2019 as part of the Air Jordan 1 line. This release has a leather upper in Black/White-Varsity Red. Satin on a basketball shoe follows a precedent the brand set decades ago, when the Air Jordan XI put patent leather on a court and made a performance model something people wore with suits. Satin does the same job on the 1: it takes a shape defined by tumbled leather and gives it a surface that catches light, which changes how the panel blocking reads entirely. Black Toe is the arrangement it borrows, one of the earliest Chicago era colour blocks, with black over the toe and heel and red and white carrying the rest. The result is the most formal version of a silhouette Peter Moore drew with Bruce Kilgore for a rookie Nike signed in 1984.