Four Unlike " Hybrid " Shoes Design Or Will Be The Next Outlet.

According to the world clothing and shoe net, last year's Air Max Day "Vote Forward" event was won by Round Two founder Sean Wotherspoon.

Nike Air Max 1/97, the previous small sale version at level two.

Prices are rising steadily.

A few days ago, the mass production version was confirmed to be on sale in Air Max Day in March 26th, and it has become a hot topic for SNKRS fans.

The success of Nike Air Max 1/97 has once again attracted the attention of "Hybrid".

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Air Max 1/97 has also emerged many "Hybrid Sneaker" recently.

Can the controversial "hybrid" shoe roll up a new trend?

The "Hybrid Sneaker"

When you see the words "hybrids" and "hybrids", you will definitely think of Jordan Brand, Hybrid Sneaker like Spiz Ike and Jordan Future, which are very popular with everyone.

Now, what kind of mixed design is popular among Hybrid Sneaker?

Nike Air Max 1/97

Air Max 1/97 was mentioned in the opening paragraph, which is considered the key footwear in this Hybrid Sneaker trend.

Using Air Max 97's body and Air Max 1's "mixed blood", it refreshed everyone's view of "Hybrid Sneaker".

Nike also interchanged the unique Air Max air cushion base of Air Max 97 and Air Max Plus with the same exchange method, and produced Air Max 97Plus and Max Air.

With regard to this idea of bottoms swaps, Nike is actually in progress very early.

In 1993, Nike once released a pair of shoes with Air Max 1 uppers added to the sole of Air Max 90. Although this design has not been recognized, we prefer the original cut again, but this will undoubtedly become a cushion for the development of Hybrid Sneaker in the future.

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It is said that it will return this year. Air Max swaps the big bottom or becomes a new way of playing.

Virgil Abloh x Nike Mercurial VaporMax Hybrid

The upsurge of the "The Ten" series is still continuing. The design of manual tailoring and reconstructing is quite revolutionary. Its bold idea of creation enables us to see more possibilities of designing shoes.

Virgil, which has achieved great success, does not seem to have to stop. While continuing to launch the second wave "The Ten", Virgil will also launch a new joint venture with the Nike Football about the world cup, which is the product of the joint Abloh.

Mercurial VaporMax Hybrid still uses Virgil's best "reorganization" design, combines Nike classic Mercurial football boots with Air VaporMax air cushion technology, takes orange as the main tone of shoes, and adds the trademark "Off-White for for NIKE" information character on the side of shoes, with two dots of blue and white dots adorned on the upper.

It is not hard to find that Nike has been launching the Hybrid Sneaker with the new technology AirVaporMax at the beginning of last year. The reasons for it will be answered below.

Nike Air VaporMax Plus

Adidas by Raf Simons Detroit Runner

As early as last August, we saw a new wave of Raf Simons x adidas Originals joint shoes, presumably everyone's vision is on Ozweego III, you may have missed this Adidas by Raf Simons.

The Detroit Runner structure is very exaggerated and unique, with canvas as the upper, with the retro shoe sole, and the metallic luster material to connect the two, showing the meaning of "Hybrid".

I wonder if you would think that the combination of Detroit Runner canvas upper and retro outsole is a little hard, but after careful reflection, this "Hybrid" seems to cater for the current Ugly Shoes trend, and this mixture has greatly increased the comfort of shoes.

In fact, when stockings are popular, brands are adding "socks" design to their shoes, which is also a kind of "Hybrid".

Reebok Instapump Fury OG ULTK

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Why do we have "Hybrid Sneaker"?

Traditionally, shoes are constantly evolving. In the past, a pair of shoes is old, and the sole will be replaced. The broken shoes will be repaired. The process of mixing and repairing is natural for a pair of shoes. In another way, this is "Hybrid".

The masterpiece of hybrid shoes: Air Jordan Spiz'ike, integrates the classic elements of the 3, 4, 5, 6 and 20 generations of Zheng Dai shoes.

Mixed shoes have been widely discussed in the industry.

Some people think that a variety of styles of stitching will adversely affect the "OG" shoes. Some people also speculate that the design of the "blasphemous" prototype shoes is a marketing strategy.

Why on earth did Hybrid Sneaker appear?

Actually, designing Hybrid Sneaker is better for athletes to adapt to new shoes.

Air Jordan 1.5 "Chicago"

Air Jordan 1.5 "Chicago" is not popular among the 1 generation, presumably because people regard it as a substitute.

Air Jordan 1.5, as you all know, using Air Jordan 1 vamp combined with the sole of Air Jordan 2, Michael Jordan to wear the game.

Nike designed the hybrid Air Jordan 1.5 for Jordan, mainly to enable him to adapt to the Air Jordan 2 soles as soon as possible, and from the 1 generation to the next two new shoes.

In those days, Nike also launched a pair of Nike Hyperdunk x Zoom Kobe VI hybrid shoes for Kobe.

Air Jordan XXX1 "Why Not?" PE

NBA star Russell Westbrook, Jordan Brand also designed a pair of Air Jordan XXX1 "Why Not" PE (commonly known as the 30.5 generation), and the above, like the 1.5, the 30 is the combination of the 30 and 31 sides, because the bottom is easy to slip, so it changed to 30 generations of soles, and made his exclusive (and later sold).

Air Jordan XXX1 "Why Not?"

In this way, the purpose of Hybrid Sneaker's birth is to enable people to experience new technologies better. Some of them are always entangling their appearance and neglecting the innovative significance they bring.

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Why are new Hybrid Sneaker emerging?

Most of the shoe fans feel that when the brand introduces a new technology, they should have new shoes to be promoted, instead of pplant these technologies to the old shoes. We are more willing to repeat the original OG shoes.

But recently, brands have launched Hybrid Sneaker, which is equipped with new technology. Why?

Nike Air VaporMax 95 OG "Neon"

Air VaporMax Inneva

Air VaporMax Flyknit Moc 2

It is reported that Nike will reduce its footwear development by 25% in the future and focus on the developed technology. We seem to have been feeling the trend of this trend: the frequent occurrence of Hybrid Sneaker carrying Air VaporMax air cushion.

"Boost Your Wear" and Feet Your Wear combine the variation of Adidas's latest Boost technology.

On the other side, Adidas struck back with Boost, surpassing Jordan Brand to become the second largest sports brand in the United States, and Boost's introduction played a key role.

The foot feeling brought by new technology combined with classic footwear has also been recognized by some shoe fans.

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In fact, the brand Hybrid Sneaker, which carries the new technology with high frequency, is the biggest consideration of the technology and economy. It is necessary to know that the development of new technology needs a lot of money. If you put the technology on a single shoe, it may be a bit risky: if the shoes that do not carry the new technology do not reach the expected revenue, it will probably lose the cost of developing new technology.

From the perspective of economics, we may find some clues from Converse.

Early Converse did not have much money to develop new technology. They could only upgrade their existing shoes one by one and upgrade their soles constantly while keeping their vamp unchanged.

So in those days, when people bought Converse shoes, there were two options: All -Star soles with new technology or the most traditional soles.

Nike Free Hybrid Boot Premium

In the second half of twenty-first Century, the launch of Nike Air Max 360 and Nike Free technology has been well received. People are hoping that these good technologies can be put on more shoes. So we can see a large number of these two kinds of Hybrid Sneaker emerging. Is this similar to the emergence of Air VaporMax and Boost madness? Of course, I think this is not a bad thing. The addition of new technology has greatly enhanced the functionality of the old shoes, and the sense of foot has also been promoted while enjoying the classic style.

Nike LunarCharge from Air Max 90, Air Flow, Air Current, Air Presto and LunarEpic is a new direction of current Nike.

Recently, the Hybrid Sneaker has gradually faded away from the "four aspect" coat. This trend has made us see more possibilities of shoe design.

Evolution is a constant law of nature, and everything is mixed.

However, how should we accurately draw the line between "hybrids" and "evolution"? Is Hybrid Sneaker a "blasphemous" hybrids? Is it the inevitable renewal and evolution brought about by the replacement of the times and the progress of science and technology? There may not be a standard answer.

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