While most of Nike’s performance running footwear operates yearly, introducing new upgrades each calendar year, the Vaporfly series has stuck to a 2-year lifecycle. The elite runner is due for an update in 2025, with images of multiple colorways of the Vaporfly 4 making their way online over the last few months, including the White Obsidian Mist rendition. Now, official photos of a colorway Nike favors for its performance runners have appeared.
The Proto (prototype) color scheme is applied to the Vaporfly 4, a color palette on multiple Nike running silhouettes, including the Alphafly 3 in 2024. A sail-shaded engineered mesh hits the base layer of the sneaker, accented by a black Swoosh painted on the midfoot. Throughout the rest of the upper, we continue to see a sail finish, though there are metallic silver and black pops along the tongue and heel tab thanks to branding features.


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