Now in its 40th year, the Nike Air Force 1 was designed in 1982 and is one of the most successful and iconic shoes ever created. In 2021, the late Virgil Abloh collaborated with Nike to send 47 pairs of bespoke Louis Vuitton x Nike Air Force 1s down the Louis Vuitton Men’s Spring-Summer 2022 runway. The result? An homage to the Hip Hop culture that shaped Abloh’s design philosophy, fusing the AF1’s core basketball and street elements with the insignia and savoir faire of Louis Vuitton. Made with materials used in Abloh’s Louis Vuitton men’s collections, the Air Force One Louis Vuitton collab sneakers are distinctively styled with the designer’s signature quotation marks, echoing the written graphics he often used in his work. Every pair of Louis Vuitton Nike shoes was made by Louis Vuitton in Fiesso d’Artico, Italy, marking the first time in the AF1’s history that the model was crafted outside a Nike factory.