These shoes were a departure from his previous eye catchy yellow neon or hot lava colored ones. Agassi won his first-ever US open and his second grand slam wearing the Nike Air Flare. This Armenian sportsman was well remembered for his neon sneakers from earlier 90’s apart from his achievement in tennis. NIKE AIR FLAREĪgain in 1994, Nike made a reverse swoosh sneaker not for a basketball player, but for the eight-time grand slam champion Andre Kirk Agassi. This was the first time that Nike used the backward swoosh instead of its traditional one. Air Darwin was Nike’s 3rd outdoor basketball sneaker after it dropped the AIR RAID series in ’92. In spite of the fact that it was designed for him, it was not a signature shoe. The shoe looks more like a boot and was worn by Dennis throughout the 1994 season when he was with the spurs. This shoe was designed for Dennis Rodman, the NBA Hall of Famer.
Although the design of this shoe was completely utilitarian, the shoe went unnoticed for long.
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This pair was even retroed which had a major update by changing the soles to 360 air soles. This 1994 released basketball shoe was and is still in fact quite underrated sneaker in Nike’s catalog. So, here is an insight into the history of the greatest backward swoosh logo sneakers of all time to rev up your sneaker knowledge.
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If you think Travis Scott “AJ 1” was the first sneaker to do so, it’s time to upgrade your sneaker I.Q right away. The backward swoosh denied this stereotype and thus is considered as one of the most iconic variations in the Nike swoosh logo history.
Traditionally Nike used the swoosh logo in a manner that the end of the swoosh would always be pointing towards the heel end of the sneaker. Since then the swoosh logo has been incorporated in the design of sneakers in a variety of ways like the mini swoosh, fat belly swoosh, multiple swoosh, and of course the infamous backward or reverse swoosh. The history of the swoosh logo dates back to the time when a Portland state student-designed and sold the logo to Phil Dog for a mere amount of $35. The Nike swoosh logo is one of the most recognized logo not just in the sportswear sector, but maybe in the whole world.
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