Nike has revealed official images of the Moon Shoe OG in a new "Malachite" colorway — style code IW0955-300, priced at $105, with a release date still to be confirmed.
The colorway
The full breakdown is Malachite/Soft Pearl/Gum Light Brown. A deep mineral green carries the upper, cut with lighter pearl panels and grounded by a warm gum sole. It is a richer, more considered palette than the navy, yellow, and white run that opened the silhouette's retail life — green reads as the grown-up option, the one that looks less like a museum reissue and more like a shoe you would actually rotate.
Why the Moon Shoe matters
The Moon Shoe is Nike's origin artifact. Bill Bowerman pressed waffle rubber in a kitchen iron in 1971, the waffle sole became the company's first real technical advantage, and the shoe itself — made in tiny numbers for the 1972 Olympic Trials — spent five decades as one of the rarest objects in sneaker history. An original pair sold for $437,500 at Sotheby's in 2019. For most of its life the Moon Shoe was a relic, not a product.
That changed this year, when Nike gave the Moon Shoe its first true general release. "Malachite" is the follow-through on that decision — evidence that Nike intends to keep the silhouette in seasonal rotation with fresh colorways rather than letting it sit as a one-off heritage drop.
The read
At $105, the Moon Shoe is one of the cheapest ways to own a piece of Nike's actual founding story, and a green this quiet will move as a daily-wear shoe rather than a collector's lockbox piece. The release date is unconfirmed, but official images this clean mean it is close. Watch SNKRS.
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