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It’s time to refresh your sneaker collection for spring. On Friday (April 26), Nike released the Air Jordan 3 Retro in a new colorway, and the sneaker is already out of stock in select sizes.
The Air Jordan Retro 3 ($200) — available in white with cement gray, cosmic clay and the classic “elephant print” crafted by designer Tinker Hatfield — boasts the classic silhouette with a leather upper, foam midsole and rubber outsole.
Most of the larger sizes are sold out at Nike.com, but the Air Jordan 3 is currently stocked in women’s sizes 5-10 and men’s sizes 3.5-10.5, while supplies last.
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Nike released the original Air Jordan 3 in 1988. It was Hatfield’s first collaboration with Nike, and launched a partnership between the shoe designer and sneaker brand that not only stretched decades, but helped solidify the Air Jordan legacy.
Hatfield discussed the creation of the Air Jordan 3 in an interview with Hypebeast in 2018. “We had some models made up and I put it on some apparel to go along with it,” he recalled of Jordan. “Michael was not in a great mood when we arrived. He said, ‘Show me what you got.’ I had the shoe there under a black cloth, like a shroud. You couldn’t really see very well what the design was like, but he had already seen some of the stuff in the two previous meetings.”
“When I picked the AJ3 up, Michael grabbed it from me and started looking at it. Within a few minutes he was smiling and asking all kinds of questions,” he continued. “Within 20 minutes, the meeting was pretty much over.”
Michael Jordan wore the Air Jordan Retro 3 in the 1988 Slam Dunk Contest, which he won against Dominique Wilkins.
