With the world turning its eyes to Paris as it hosts the 2024 Summer Olympics, brands have been looking at ways to give homage to the host city. Whilst their athletics division goes all-out on the performance front, lifestyle product isn't left by the wayside.
Well below the famed streets of Paris exists a vast network of tunnels created when excavating rock for those very streets. As French cemeteries began to overcrowd in the late-18th century, undertakers moved remains to this underground world to be known as the catacombs.
Nike pays homage to this iconic Parisian destination with an Air Force 1 inspired by the catacombs, complete with dark earth-toned uppers and a translucent outsole which depicts the eerie-yet-intriguing skull-stacked walls of the underground tunnels.
