

Basketball culture is often aligned with hip hop, and therefore, the music scene was essentially a global marketing scheme for the shoe. While basketball functionality was its humble origins, the Air Force 1 become a grail item for the hip hop scene in the ‘80s and ‘90s. Named after the President of America’s private plane, this shoe offered both protection and flight.


Originally arriving in either a low or high-top option, the latter was fitted with a strap up top to provide a secure fit and prevent any ankle injuries during wear. This defining silhouette was also the first Nike basketball trainer to offer a full-length Air-injected sole unit – a technology that would continue to innovate its own and Jordan trainers. Originally, the AF1 was inspired by hiking shoes, but it eventually opted for a functional, basketball-ready guise. Bruce Kilgore’s original design first took flight in 1982, and it isn’t running out of fuel anytime soon. You can always change your preference by visiting 'Cookie Settings' at the bottom of the page.Simply put, the Nike Air Force 1 is by far one of the Beaverton brand’s most lauded silhouettes. Blocking some types of cookies may impact your experience of the site and the services we are able to offer. Click on the different category headings to find out more and change our default settings. Because we respect your right to privacy, optional cookies are not set unless you enable them. We would like to set optional cookies to give you a better user experience and to assist us in understanding how visitors use our site. We use Strictly Necessary cookies to make our website work. The information does not usually directly identify you, but it can give you a more personalized web experience. This information might be about you, your preferences or your device and is mostly used to make the site work as you expect it to. When you visit any website, it may store or retrieve information on your browser, mostly in the form of cookies.
