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Name: Nike First Sight Shadow “Light Crimson and Metallic Silver”Colorway: Light Crimson/Metallic SilverSKU: HQ2410-600MSRP: $145 USDRelease Date: September 15Where to Buy: NikeNike has unveiled the Women’s First Sight Shadow in a “Light Crimson and Metallic Silver” colorway, positioning the model as the closing chapter of the brand’s First Sight collection. The Shadow arrives as a slip-on silhouette that pulls its cues from early-2000s design while grounding itself in Nike’s basketball lineage.Construction is where the Shadow makes its case. The model is built as a futuristic slip-on, doing away with traditional lacing in favor of an easy step-in entry, and it is topped by a sculptural upper that gives the shoe its molded, forward-leaning shape. That upper is the defining visual element, prioritizing a bold, contoured profile over conventional paneling.Underfoot, the traction is purpose-built rather than borrowed. Nike finishes the Shadow with a bespoke, court-inspired outsole pattern, tying the silhouette’s grip back to the basketball reference points that inform the wider collection. It is a functional nod that keeps the design connected to performance roots even as the overall shape reads as street-focused.The design language traces directly to the early 2000s. The Shadow draws on the silhouettes of that era and filters them through Nike basketball DNA, translating a specific moment in the brand’s hoops history into a contemporary, slip-on form. That lineage is what separates the model from a purely futuristic exercise, anchoring its forward-looking build in a recognizable design heritage.Within the First Sight lineup, the Shadow carries a specific role. Nike frames the collection as an effort to push athletic style into new territory, and the Shadow completes that three-model arc, presented as the piece that rounds out the trilogy. The “Light Crimson and Metallic Silver” treatment gives that closing entry a high-contrast finish to match its sculptural form.

Name: Etro x Birkenstock Boston, Etro x Birkenstock GizehColorway: TBCSKU: TBCMSRP: TBCRelease Date: September 10Where to Buy: Birkenstock, EtroBirkenstock and Etro have released their collaborative footwear, opening with the Boston and the Gizeh as the first pairs in the partnership. The two styles graft Etro’s decorative language onto Birkenstock’s most recognizable silhouettes while leaving the brand’s core footbed engineering intact.The ornamentation is where the collaboration concentrates its detailing. Both silhouettes are worked with a paisley motif and dense material treatments, then dressed with embroidered accents and long fringe for movement and texture. A Western-inspired buckle reshapes the closure hardware away from Birkenstock’s standard fittings, while special rivets carry Etro’s Pegaso emblem, embedding the house’s identity into the functional hardware rather than only the surface.Underneath the decoration, the construction stays true to Birkenstock. Each style is built on the brand’s anatomically shaped cork-latex footbed, the contoured base that defines how a Birkenstock sits and supports the foot. It anchors the collaboration’s more expressive upper work to a familiar, function-first foundation, keeping the pairs recognizable as the Boston and Gizeh beneath the styling.The outsole is where both brands meet in a single component. Birkenstock’s signature bone-pattern tread is retained for grip and identity, then overlaid with Etro’s paisley motif, so the underfoot surface reads as a merger of the two design vocabularies. It turns a purely functional part of the shoe into another site for the co-branding.Positioned as the opening chapter of the tie-up, the Boston and Gizeh set the template for what the brands frame as a first drop, suggesting the collaboration is built to extend beyond these two styles.

Name: ‘Halloween’ x Crocs Classic Clog “Michael Myers”, ‘Saw’ x Crocs Classic Clog “Jigsaw”Colorway: MultiSKU: 213831-90H, 213832-90HMSRP: $70 USDRelease Date: September 24Where to Buy: CrocsCrocs is bringing its Horror Pack back for 2026 with two Classic Clogs built around Halloween and Saw. The set hands the spotlight to Michael Myers and Jigsaw, with each clog taking a distinct approach to its source film rather than running the same template in two colorways.The Michael Myers pair goes the comic route. Its upper carries a black and off-white graphic of the character, cut through with orange panels and red blood splatter, and that splatter carries onto the gray midsole. An olive heel strap and black hardware close out the back. Up front, a set of themed Jibbitz includes a knife and Halloween graphics, and Crocs layers in “The Night He Came Home” movie references so the design reads as more than a straight character print.The Jigsaw clog pushes much darker. Black, gray, cream, and red cover the upper, with puzzle-piece outlines linking the graphics across both sides and Jigsaw imagery sitting over the forefoot. The attached Jibbitz pull from across the franchise, including the spiral logo, a key, a timer, a cassette tape, and other props. A brown, industrial-looking trim wraps the midsole and heel, finished with molded screw details and gear-shaped hardware on the strap, while blood splatter runs across both the upper and lower sections.Under all the artwork, both pairs stay true to the Classic Clog. The forefoot ventilation holes remain, the heel straps can be flipped up or down, and each sits on the standard Crocs outsole. The extra graphics, hardware, and Jibbitz are what pull these away from a regular seasonal colorway.