The Nike Pearl’s popular “Air Max 97” boasts three features and models currently available for purchase.

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The Nike Pearl's popular "Air Max 97" boasts three features and models currently available for purchase.

The “Air Max 97″ is a popular sneaker commonly known as the Cybermax. It is one of the most famous models in the series, with a wide variety of color variations as well as special and collaborative models being released frequently even today. The high degree of perfection of the design has kept it popular among men even now. This time, we focus on Nike’s ” Air Max 97 ” and introduce its appeal and the models currently available for purchase!

What is the Air Max, the iconic high-tech sneaker that continues to lead the times?

The roots of the Air Max series, which continues to this day, date back to 1977, almost 40 years ago. It all started when Frank Rudy, later known as the “Father of Nike,” brought the idea to Nike’s founder, Phil Knight. Rudy, who originally worked for NASA, had the idea of “injecting ‘air’ into the sole based on inert gas,” an idea that was adapted from astronaut helmets. Nike put this technology to practical use in less than a year, and released the first running shoe with air in it, the ” Air Tailwind, ” in 1978. At this point, the air mechanism was not visible from the outside.

Three years later, legendary designer Tinker Hatfield joined the company. Tinker, the creator of the Air Jordan, designed a new series of shoes with the Air sole “visible” from the outside. In 1987, the first Air Max was released.

The most distinctive feature of the Air Max 1 was the “Visible Air” design, which was inspired by the architectural design of the Pompidou Center in Paris, where the inner structure can be seen from the outside. The unprecedented design and mechanism of the Air Max drew a great deal of attention, and the Air Max has been used all over the world as a symbol of high-tech sneakers, including the subsequent development of the series.

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