Nike x Jacquemus and the Reawakening of an Original

Nike’s Moon Shoe has always lived in the hazy space between prototype and myth. In 1972, Bowerman cobbled a dozen pairs with rubber sheets cut in his garage, lacing them onto runners at the U.S. Olympic Trials. The Moon Shoe remained a relic, whispered about but never reissued, until now. 

Jacquemus steps in. He edits it, trims it, re-cuts it until it feels like something else entirely. He takes Nike’s most sacred artifact and bends it toward his own world: stripped-back Parisian sensuality, somewhere between the rigor of sport and the fluidity of dance. 

The Nike x Jacquemus Moon Shoe keeps the DNA: the low-to-the-ground ride, the raw utility of Bowerman’s waffle outsole. It dresses it in ruched nylon, almost crushable, a contradiction of delicacy and endurance.