With Chinese New Year mere weeks away, we’re beginning to notice a slew of new releases hosting an Eastern influence. With the two-pack of “NAI-KE” releaseshonoring the mythical “One Stripe” Nike sneakers, to the dedicated CNY collections, the first block of 2022 is chock-full of Asian arrangements. Then there’s this new Nike Blazer Mid “Shapeless, Formless, Limitless” release that, like the accompanying Air Force 1 previewed here, looks to ancient Eastern mantras and regional-specific accents to convey its Eastern elements.
Most famously, Bruce Lee noted that to empty your mind, you need to become formless and shapeless — like water. It’s a window to being truly limitless. And It’s something that’s obviously played an integral part in Nike’s company backstory — after all, the ever-inventing Swoosh knows no limits. The pair’s title sits on both the tongue and insole design centered around a whirlpool-like motif. There are more water themes seen across the pair’s quilted uppers and rear panels, while further links to Chinese tradition arrive via three jade-look motifs at the lateral heel — features that are also present on the aforementioned Air Force 1. There’s added wrap-around laces, Swooshes, and rear branding in rich reds that add to the Chinese themes, and it’s countered by soft hues across the upper in pastel pink, beige, and blue, before being completed by a semi-translucent jade green outsole.
Enjoy an official look at the Nike Blazer Mid “Shapeless, Formless, Limitless” for 2022 here below, and look for these to roll out at select Swoosh retailers soon.
In other Nike news, official images for the Air Force 1 “Year of the Tiger” have landed.
Nike Blazer Mid “Shapeless, Formless, Limitless”
Release Date: 2022
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