This weekend, Nike will officially launch the Air Max 90 in its original form, and the iconic “Infrared” will certainly reprise its role. There’s no denying that this awesome running silhouette, designed by none other than Tinker Hatfield, is responsible for enhancing the retro phase for Nike, and with popularity that knows no bounds, it can be argued that the Air Max 90 is the most popular Nike running sneaker of all-time.
To celebrate 25 years of Air Max 90, we looked back at the timeline of this sneaker to hand-select the best to have ever released, and during our retrospective, we noticed that every phase of this silhouette has been outstanding; the original colorways were a hit, the collaborations in the 2000s were legendary, and the enhanced versions in recent years were impressive. Read on below.