Nike’s Superfly sneaker is a long-forgotten lightweight running shoe from 2001 created by veteran Nike footwear designer Mike Aveni. It’s as much a product of its era as anything, and yet the Superfly is so smartly shaped that it’s basically timeless.
So it’s actually quite nice that Nike is bringing the Superfly sneaker back.
The Superfly is a slick Nike running shoe drenched in Y2K flavor, from the metallic colorways to the low-profile silhouette.
It was designed to be an uncomplicated and fairly lightweight shoe, a balance of technical appeal and stylish simplicity.
As such, the Superfly lives up to its name by minimizing the visible design language down to a series of streamlined panels.
The only Nike branding visible are some Swooshes on the lateral side towards the heel and tongue.
It’s a stylishly direct shoe, one that makes sense on a stylish individual like Sha’Carri Richardson, one of the fastest women on the planet.
Richardson debuted the Superfly in an early November 2024 Instagram post that highlighted the silver colorway, one of four iterations of the new Nike women’s sneaker. Richardson, as usual, was way ahead of the pack on this one.
Whereas Richardson was rocking them from the fall, the rest of us will have to wait for the Nike Superfly to drop on Nike’s website in January 2025, though its specific release date remains TBD.