Air Max 1 ’86 – Earth/Lt Lemon Twist-Oil Green

If there was a dollar for every ‘I don’t see anything’ joke bandied around the office when these arrived, we’d be having a pretty lavish Christmas party this year.

Terrible camouflage humour aside, Nike didn’t mess around with these ones. Working on the ‘Big Bubble’ Air Max is always going to come with a degree of pressure and so we get a shoe totally covered with camouflage from heel-to-toe. The mesh used is extremely breezy—so breezy that if you wear the wrong socks everyone’s going to see the holes in them. The texture is reminiscent of ghillie suits used by marksmen to essentially disappear into their surroundings