2025 will mark the 35th birthday of the Nike Air Max 90, and Tinker Hatfield’s creation will undoubtedly be the subject of various special renditions to celebrate the influential design. Well ahead of the new year, images of a Quickstrike colorway of the Air Max 90 have appeared, with Nike taking inspiration from volcanic eruptions and the magma that lies within.
Across the leather upper, we see a textured dark black finish that appears almost like hardened obsidian due to the pattern applied. Trimming the various leather panels is a laser orange finish, almost as if magma is starting to bubble to the shoe's surface. Direct references to magma can be found via the Swoosh and heel tab, with a cracked-like appearance of black “obsidian” and orange “magma” creeping through.
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