Month: September 2026

Name: Nike Baltoro “Cave Stone/Mystic Hibiscus”Colorway: Cave Stone/Mystic Hibiscus-Black-Mountain BlueSKU: IO4556-202MSRP: $145 USDRelease Date: September 2026Nike is revisiting the Baltoro High with a new “Cave Stone/Mystic Hibiscus” colorway that trades reinvention for nostalgia. Rather than reworking the silhouette, the release reaches back toward the darker, outdoor-leaning palettes that defined the model in its earlier years.Cave Stone covers the majority of the upper, setting a muted, earthy base that gets broken up by Mystic Hibiscus and blue in select spots. Royal blue branding and burgundy accents fill out the rest of the palette, giving the largely subdued shoe a handful of deliberate color pops rather than a single dominant contrast.That restrained-with-accents approach tracks closely with the ACG-style color blocking Nike leaned on decades ago, where a mostly muted shoe would earn its brighter hits only in the right places. The result is a makeup that reads as a callback to the Baltoro’s earlier color stories, reaching back toward the palette the model wore in its ’90s outdoor era without directly recreating any single pair. The shades have shifted, but the reference point stays legible.For the Baltoro High, a boot-adjacent silhouette built for that outdoor moment, the treatment feels like a return to form. The muted base keeps the shoe versatile, while the pops of Mystic Hibiscus, royal blue and burgundy give it enough character to stand apart from a plain earth-tone build.

Name: MoMA x Nike Air Rift 2Colorway: Black/Cyber-Dark Powder Blue-Light Fuchsia, Hyper Verde/Cyber-Light FuchsiaSKU: IR8669-001, IR8669-300MSRP: $130 USDRelease Date: Fall 2026MoMA and Nike are teaming up again for Fall 2026, this time on a two-pair pack of the Air Rift 2. The split-toe runner, a Nike design that dates back to the ’90s, gets two sharply different treatments here, each leaning into bright color rather than restraint.The two pairs sit at opposite ends of the palette. The first comes covered mostly in green, with pink threaded through the smaller details and yellow adding a third hit of color. The second starts from a black upper and works in neon yellow and light blue accents, with small pink Swooshes slipping one more color into the mix without overwhelming the base. It is a study in contrast across the pack, one pair loud and saturated, the other darker with pops that punctuate rather than dominate.Where the collaboration signs its name is in the details. MoMA branding turns up on the lace panels and insoles of both pairs, while the rest of the shoe holds to the Air Rift’s familiar shape and setup. That light touch is the point: rather than reengineering the silhouette, the pack treats the split-toe runner as a canvas, letting color and co-branding do the work on an otherwise unchanged base.That approach fits the logic of a MoMA collaboration, where an everyday object gets reframed through a design lens. Reworking a ’90s Nike runner into two vivid, gallery-ready colorways positions the Air Rift 2 less as a straightforward retro and more as a wearable design object, which is squarely the territory a museum tie-up is built to occupy.

Name: New Balance 983Colorway: Shadow Blue/Zinc BlueSKU: U9835DUMSRP: $160 USDRelease Date: October 1Where to Buy: New BalanceNew Balance has unveiled the 983, a new lifestyle model that pulls the brand’s early-2000s running language into the present. Rather than reissuing a single archival shape, the 983 borrows pieces from across New Balance’s catalog and reassembles them into a silhouette built for everyday wear.The 983 centers on the elliptic form of the ABZORB SBS pods, a cushioning cue lifted from the brand’s performance era, and sets them against wave moldings that run through both the outsole and the midsole. That undercarriage sits beneath a dual-density midsole and a upper layered with synthetic underlays and rounded synthetic overlays, with the familiar ‘N’ logo positioned on the saddle. A stitch-and-turn collar and reflective detailing along the upper round out a build that reads as considered rather than nostalgic.Taken together, those details push the 983 toward something more sculptural than the running shoes that inspired it. New Balance frames the model as sitting in a “new dimension,” a silhouette that feels recognizable at a glance yet carries its own distinct design vocabulary. It is a familiar strategy for a brand that has spent recent years converting its deep running heritage into fashion currency, using the texture and form of old performance tech as the foundation for new lifestyle pieces.The cultural half of the launch runs through a global campaign uniting ambassadors Coco Gauff and Aminé, two figures with sharply different aesthetics enlisted to show how far the 983 stretches across looks. Built on the premise that style is never one-dimensional, the campaign leans into individuality and self-expression, positioning the shoe as a base layer adaptable to whoever is wearing it. Gauff, who helped shape the concept, described styling the model as an exercise in range. “It was fun bringing the vision to life with Aminé and getting creative with styling the shoe in different ways. I love pieces that are fashion-forward but still easy to wear, and the 983 goes with any outfit,” she said.