Nike Air Max 97 × Comme des Garçons PLAY – Smoke Grey / Yellow Strike / Blue Lightning

Nike Air Max 97 × Comme des Garçons PLAY – Smoke Grey / Yellow Strike: Where Street Sport Meets Avant-Garde Art

Two icons. One silhouette. The Nike Air Max 97 × Comme des Garçons PLAY “Smoke Grey / Yellow Strike / Blue Lightning” is one of the most culturally significant and visually electric Nike collaborations of the modern era — pairing the Air Max 97’s legendary bullet-train silhouette with Comme des Garçons PLAY’s globally recognised heart-with-eyes logo in a colourway that layers deep Smoke Grey with cascading Yellow Strike and Blue Lightning wave stripes and anchors the entire design with a vivid Rush Pink Air Max unit. Fashion’s most beloved art brand. Sport’s most iconic cushioning silhouette. Together, perfectly.

Key Features

• Smoke Grey Leather & Mesh Dominant Upper – Deep, cool Smoke Grey leather and mesh panels cover the Air Max 97’s upper in the colourway’s commanding dark base tone — a sophisticated, city-ready grey that provides the perfect dark canvas for the Yellow Strike and Blue Lightning wave stripes to pop with maximum chromatic energy, giving this CDG collaboration the urban, fashion-forward base that connects the Air Max 97’s sport heritage to Comme des Garçons’ avant-garde Parisian aesthetic
• Yellow Strike & Blue Lightning Multi-Layer Wave Stripes – Vivid Yellow Strike and Blue Lightning leather panels cascade across the Air Max 97’s signature bullet-train wave stripe construction in two electrifying accent tones — the Blue Lightning stripe flowing along the lower midsole and the Yellow Strike stripe running above it in a stacked wave formation that delivers the most energetic and colour-saturated wave stripe execution on any CDG × Nike collaboration, transforming the silhouette’s most iconic design element into a bold declaration of collaborative sport-art energy
• Comme des Garçons PLAY Heart Logo Tongue Tab – The collaboration’s most immediately recognisable and collectible detail — Comme des Garçons PLAY’s iconic red heart-with-eyes logo appears as a woven or embroidered tab on the padded tongue, delivering the Parisian fashion house’s most beloved and globally recognised graphic identity at the Air Max 97’s most prominent branding surface and confirming this as a genuine, full CDG PLAY collaboration rather than an inspired-by imitation
• Comme des Garçons Heart Logo in Outsole Air Window – The collaboration’s most surprising and conversation-starting hidden detail — Comme des Garçons PLAY’s red heart-with-eyes logo is embedded within the central oval Air window of the outsole, visible from beneath the shoe as a miniature collectible artwork set into the sole construction — a signature CDG × Nike collaboration detail that transforms the Air Max 97’s most technically celebrated outsole feature into a canvas for fashion’s most iconic logo
• Rush Pink Full-Length Air Max Cushioning Unit – A vivid Rush Pink full-length visible Air Max cushioning unit blazes beneath the Smoke Grey upper in the colourway’s most unexpected and visually explosive sole detail — a warm, saturated pink that stands in bold complementary contrast to the cool grey, yellow, and blue of the upper, delivering the CDG collaboration’s essential fashion-forward sole accent and making the Air Max 97’s most celebrated cushioning feature the shoe’s most surprising and photographable sole-level design statement
• White Swoosh & Black / Sail Outsole – A clean white Nike Swoosh on the lateral midfoot provides classic, high-contrast sport branding against the Smoke Grey upper, while a deep black rubber outsole frame with Sail off-white square-grid traction lugs grounds the shoe’s full colour story with the Air Max 97’s most classic sole construction — delivering reliable multi-surface grip while completing the collaboration’s dark-base, bright-accent palette from upper to ground contact

Sport made art. Art made wearable. The Nike Air Max 97 × Comme des Garçons PLAY Smoke Grey / Yellow Strike / Blue Lightning is for those who understand that the greatest collaborations happen when two equally iconic visions meet without compromise — a shoe that wears sport history and fashion history simultaneously and makes both look better for it. Own the heart. Own the wave. Own the collaboration.