The Nike Air Flight Huarache’s aesthetic swagger was in what it
stripped away. A swoosh? No need for one — it’s not like this shoe could
have been made by any other brand. That Dynamic Fit, exoskeleton,
leather and neoprene combined to make this one of the purest expressions
of performance to date.
While a maverick team — led by intuitionist Tinker Hatfield, and
assisted by Eric Avar — worked behind the scenes to translate the
Huarache running technology to the courts, it took a crew of collegiate
game-changers to give the Nike Air Flight Huarache an extra ascent in
terms of publicity.
If the sport’s style leaders were dressing from the feet up, the
Huarache was an instruction to those shorts to relax a little, because
this shoe had it under control.
As the seam length of the shorts lengthened, the Huarache countered with a reductionist school of thought — “Where can we just trim this baby back a little bit?” Tinker
asked, because that minimal upper needed to be complemented by an
equally stripped-down sole. That leads to the eternal question: which
came first - this rebel shoe like no other, eclipsing a previous decade
of bulk, or basketball’s completely new attitude and aesthetic?
This shoe would have caused a storm either way, urging those from as far away as the nose bleeds to ask, “What was that?”
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