And then on the outside is this lofted, translucent material.”Ī full-length Nike Air Zoom unit sits directly underneath the sockliner, finishing off the underfoot ride on the 12. “In the middle layer there’s actually a bulking yarn. “On the backside it’s actually a chenille yarn that’s used,” Chang says. The height, the midsole design and the colorways, which Chang promises are going to be fire.Īnother premium touch on the 12 is the layered tongue. When you need it, it’s there, it engages.”Įverything else on the 12 takes its cue from the 90s also. “The way that the quad-axial works is that all the Flywire, for the most part, is loose in these four directions. That’s where the quad-axial Flywire comes in, an “upper that’s super comfortable from the get,” Chang says. KD, since the 1, has worn shoes forever, more than we’ve wanted him to wear a shoe. “The idea is this upper, I really wanted to get after the sensation of broken-in-feel but still have this adaptive, on-demand kind of lockdown. “Quad-axial means four directions,” Chang says. He wanted to make a textured, layered upper, similar to what was seen when Charles Barkley and David Robinson were playing.
It’s functionally about containment and visually about the 90s.Ĭhang also considered the 90s when constructing the upper of the 12. The clear frame on the outside of 12 is a reflection of that. He noticed that the toolings of the outsoles and midsoles were all “expressive.” There were a lot of shapes and bumps in the sneakers back then. I want the 12 to be about that.’ Without saying it so eloquently, I had been thinking about that same thing in terms of designing the shoe.”Ĭhang says that he was already in the process of designing a silhouette that was based off of Nike’s 90s basketball design language. “He was like, ‘I’m this millennial who has this love and respect for the 90s. “Kevin, we had a meeting with him,” Chang remembers. The Nike KD12 is fully inspired by the 90s, which was a vision that Kevin Durant and head designer of the KD line, Leo Chang, shared from the very start of the design process.
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