Air Jordan 12 RETRO Gym Red

Designed by Tinker Hatfield and released on 23 November 2018 as part of the Air Jordan 12 line. This release has the Gym Red/Gym Red-Black colourway. Gym red on the twelfth model is Chicago colour applied to one of the heaviest, most formally constructed shoes in the line. By this point in the sequence Tinker Hatfield had spent nearly a decade turning the Air Jordan into a design series with its own codes, and the numbered models had picked up carbon fibre shank plates for torsional stiffness and increasingly engineered structure. The 12 is where that engineering shows most plainly in the shape: a dense, layered silhouette that looks built rather than styled. Putting the brand's own red on it makes the shoe read as institutional, a piece of equipment in team colours rather than a lifestyle release wearing a palette.