Nike Air Max 97 – Black / Metallic Gold / White

Nike Air Max 97 – Black / Metallic Gold / White: The Bulletproof Standard.

Timeless. Luxurious. Completely authoritative. The Nike Air Max 97 “Black / Metallic Gold / White” is the Air Max 97’s most enduring and universally coveted colourway — a masterclass in two-tone contrast that pairs deep matte black embossed leather upper panels with mirror-finish Metallic Gold leather wave stripes in a black-and-gold split that has defined premium urban style since the silhouette’s original release. Anchored by a white midsole and a translucent champagne Air Max unit, this is the Air Max 97 at its most sophisticated, its most wearable, and its most permanently relevant. Gold standard. Literally.

Key Features

• Black Embossed Leather Upper Panels – Deep matte black embossed leather covers the Air Max 97’s upper collar, toe box, and topmost wave stripe construction in the colourway’s commanding dark base — a premium, texture-rich leather with a subtle surface emboss pattern that gives the black panels an extraordinary material depth and tactile quality, the dark matte finish providing the perfect contrasting foil against the Metallic Gold wave stripes below and ensuring the colourway’s two-tone split reads with maximum chromatic drama from every viewing angle
• Metallic Gold Mirror-Finish Leather Wave Stripes – The Air Max 97’s signature multi-layer wave stripe construction is executed in a vivid Metallic Gold mirror-finish leather — a highly reflective, light-catching gold that covers the primary and secondary wave stripes across the entire lateral and medial silhouette in a warm, luminous finish that shifts in tone from burnished amber to bright champagne depending on the light, delivering the bullet-train construction’s most luxurious and visually commanding wave stripe material treatment and making every step a reflection of premium craftsmanship
• Metallic Gold Swoosh on Lateral Midfoot – A Metallic Gold Nike Swoosh on the lateral midfoot delivers the brand’s identity in the wave stripe’s most reflective and premium accent tone — a small, precisely proportioned gold Swoosh that mirrors the wave stripe leather’s metallic finish at the shoe’s most prominent lateral branding position, confirming the gold as the colourway’s defining accent material at every level of the upper from wave stripe to brand symbol
• “air max” Gold Typography Heel Pull Tab – A black woven heel pull tab carries the vertical “air max” wordmark in Metallic Gold typography — a heritage branding detail that delivers the Air Max 97’s most iconic text logo at the shoe’s most visible rear surface in the colourway’s premium gold accent tone, the black-and-gold pull tab functioning as a miniature replica of the shoe’s full two-tone colour story in the most condensed and precisely crafted rear branding detail the Air Max 97 has ever carried
• Translucent Champagne Air Max Cushioning Unit – A semi-translucent champagne-gold full-length Air Max cushioning unit sits within the white midsole frame in a warm, amber-tinted sole detail that maintains the colourway’s gold identity all the way to the Air bubble — the translucent champagne Air chamber visible through the midsole window in a warm, jewel-like tone that bridges the gap between the Metallic Gold upper and the white midsole frame and confirms the gold as a full-shoe accent present from the topmost leather wave stripe to the deepest visible cushioning surface
• White Midsole Frame & Black Outsole – A crisp white midsole frame provides the essential tonal contrast that separates the black upper from the black outsole, while a deep black rubber outsole with the Air Max 97’s signature square-grid multi-directional traction pattern grounds the colourway’s full black-and-gold story at ground-contact level — the white midsole acting as the colourway’s brightest and most luminous sole detail and giving the champagne Air unit its most visually striking and colour-pure presentation against the cleanest possible midsole backdrop

Black. Gold. Permanent. The Nike Air Max 97 Black / Metallic Gold is for those who understand that the greatest colourways don’t follow trends — they set them, and then they outlast every trend that follows. The most luxurious two-tone Air Max 97 ever made. Own the gold. Own the black. Own the standard. Own the 97.