Key Points
- Nike Air Force 1 Low '01 "Triple White" (IV4501-100) releases July 2026 for $150.
- It restores the 2001 build: narrower toe box, shorter profile, firmer construction.
- The '01 was the silhouette Nike sold until 2007, when the bulkier '07 took over.
- Drops at Nike and select retailers in white-on-white leather.
For two decades the Air Force 1 most people own has been the "'07" — the rounded, slightly chunky version Nike standardized in 2007 and has sold by the tens of millions ever since. This July, Nike is bringing back the one that came before it. The Air Force 1 Low '01 "Triple White", style code IV4501-100, returns the shoe to its early-2000s proportions for $150.
What "OG" means for this Air Force 1
The Air Force 1 debuted in 1982, but the version that became a cultural object — the one immortalized in New York rap, the boroughs' unofficial uniform — was the leaner make Nike produced through the early 2000s and discontinued around 2007. When Nike retooled the model into the "'07," it widened the toe box, raised the profile, and softened the lines for mass comfort. That shoe sells forever. It is also not quite the shoe collectors remember.
The '01 "Triple White" corrects the proportions rather than the colorway. Per Sole Retriever, the returning build carries a "much slimmer" toe box and a "less bulky," sleeker shape than the '07, with a firmer construction and a lower-to-the-ground stance. In an all-white leather make, the differences are subtle in a photo and obvious on foot.
Release details
- Shoe: Nike Air Force 1 Low '01 "Triple White"
- Style code: IV4501-100
- Colorway: White / White
- Price: $150
- Release: July 2026, at Nike and select retailers
The read: bringing back the '01 is Nike quietly conceding that twenty years of refining the Air Force 1 for comfort drifted it away from the exact proportions that made it iconic — this is a restoration, not a nostalgia colorway, and it lands at the same moment the brand's Air Max 95 returned to its original Big Bubble form. Heritage accuracy, not hype, is the strategy Nike is leaning on in 2026, the same logic behind the first-ever return of the Air Jordan 5 "Black/University Blue" and the team-by-team retros anchoring the Kobe 4 Protro "Draft Day" drop.
Source: Sneaker Bar Detroit and Sole Retriever.
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