The launch of the first Nike Free shoe a decade ago marked the debut of Nike’s first shoe to openly tout the benefits of natural motion, but the concept itself had been brewing inside Nike’s design department for decades.
The idea of a shoe that set the foot free to move naturally would find expression over the years in a series of shoes that often seemed odd at the time, but which, collectively, would form a direct lineage to Nike Free—proving that they were, perhaps, merely ahead of their time.
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