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The shoe itself is built on the sole of the Nike Special Forces Boot, with a tread meant to provide traction on the simulated Martian terrain in Pasadena, California, while the uppers utilized vectran ripstop material used in the Mars Excursion Rover airbags.
The Tom Sachs x NIKEcraft Mars Yard 2.0 replaces the vectran with a more durable polyester warp-knit tricot mesh, which is eminently more breathable and flexible. Nike describes the material as something that’s “not sexy but honest,” but in that way, it actually provides more of a parallel with Sachs’ oeuvre.
