Nike Wmns Air Force 1 '07 Next Nature 'white Flax'

Next Nature is Nike admitting that the most useful thing it can do with an icon is rebuild it out of recovered material. The company has run Nike Grind for years, recycling manufacturing scrap and worn shoes back into new product and into surfaces, and Next Nature takes that thinking into the upper and midsole of the shoe itself. Putting it on the women's Air Force 1 07 rather than a niche runner is the point: this is the silhouette that became a status symbol in urban and hip hop fashion from the 1980s onward and then a fixture of mainstream dress, so changing how it is made reaches more people than any concept shoe could. White Flax gives it a soft, sand toned finish rather than the usual stark white on white.