COMME des GARÇONS and Nike’s sneaker collabs have gone to some pretty wacky places in the past but always feel natural, even at their wildest, thanks to an innate aesthetic overlap between CDG and the Swoosh.
CDG x Nike Spring/Summer 2025 upholds that intent with a sneaker that’s surprisingly elderly, colorfully crazy, and unexpectedly grounded.
Revealed during the COMME des GARÇONS HOMME PLUS runway show in Paris on June 21, the latest CDG x Nike shoe collab is pretty quintessential CDG x Nike.
It’s retro, it’s wearable, it’s weird, and it’s probably not what you’d expect.
Recalling COMME des GARÇONS’ Nike Air Max Sunder and Air Pegasus partnerships, the next CDG Nike sneaker is a proper throwback, looking like a chunked-up Air Max 96 XX.
The ensuing shoe is shaped like an Air Zoom Spiridon but more Air Max-y, which, yeah. Air Max 96 XX. Kinda
CDG’s latest Nike is suitably rendered in a no-holds-barred white and pink colorway that complements the consistent craziness of CDG runway shows (elsewhere in CDG’s SS25 menswear collection, bubblegum pink blazers blister with dangling polyester and cropped pants, cut from glistening tapestries, are worn with ruffle-laden derbies).
You get your usual CDG branding on the tongue but otherwise this is something fresh, in a dad shoe sorta way.
It’s a classic running shoe, to be sure, but not something entirely typical of the CDG oeuvre, which has focused on basketball sneakers and fairly classic Nike running shoes as of late.
But CDG founder Rei Kawakubo does enjoy digging out an obscure Nike silhouette on occasion.
The new COMME des GARÇONS Nike sneaker is not likely to be as big a hit as some of CDG’s more solid sneakers, like the recent fashionized Foamposites and crazy Swoosh heels, if only because they are so simple (and will likely still command an imposing price tag).
But that doesn’t make them any less appreciably cool or any less COMME.