Nike Air Force 1 Low 07 Triple White

Bruce Kilgore drew the Air Force 1 in 1982 and named it after the presidential aircraft. It was the first basketball shoe to carry Nike Air, a sealed pocket of pressurised air in the heel, and Nike claimed it cushioned shock 30 percent better and ran 20 percent more resilient than a standard shoe. Kilgore lifted the lowered heel collar from a Nike hiking boot called the Approach, because hikers needed their Achilles left alone. Nike killed the model in 1984. Three Baltimore stores, Charley Rudo, Cinderella Shoes and Downtown Locker Room, refused to let it go and talked Nike into exclusive runs under a Color of the Month programme. The all white version came later and quietly became the one everybody actually wears. Triple White, style code CW2288-111, is the silhouette stripped to nothing.