Nike Air Max 270 Black White Anthracite

Nike Air Max 270 "Black / White / Anthracite"

Bold, contemporary, and built around the largest Air unit Nike has ever placed in a lifestyle shoe — the Nike Air Max 270 Black White Anthracite is the version of Nike’s first Air Max silhouette designed exclusively for all-day comfort that pairs its most dominant sole architecture with the most graphic two-tone upper palette in the shoe’s range, producing a colourway that lets the 270° Air Max heel unit read as a pure design object against the contrasting white midsole while the all-black upper focuses every element of the shoe’s substantial silhouette. The Air Max 270 was introduced in 2018 as Nike’s first Air Max shoe designed from the outset for lifestyle wear rather than running performance, departing from the heritage running lineage of the Air Max 1, 90, 95, and 97 to create a silhouette whose sole purpose was maximum cushioning comfort and whose sole architecture — the 270-degree Air unit, so named because it wraps 270 degrees around the heel perimeter — was the largest Air heel unit Nike had produced at the time of the shoe’s release. That Air unit is the defining visual element of the AM270, its large black pressurised chamber visible through the full perimeter of the heel from every angle, the deep dark volume of the air bag creating a graphic sole presence that no foam midsole can match for visual drama. The upper is built in Nike’s engineered mesh — a structured, directionally woven textile that provides the upper with both breathability and shape retention without the material bulk of traditional leather — in full black across every zone, the mesh’s subtle hexagonal or diamond knit pattern visible at close range and providing a surface texture that elevates the all-black tone beyond a simple flat colour. A white Nike Swoosh provides the upper’s sole contrasting element, its clean white fill against the black mesh delivering the brand mark with maximum graphic clarity, echoing the white of the foam midsole below it and tying the two white elements of the colourway into a visual correspondence. The white lightweight foam midsole wraps the forefoot and connects the black upper to the black 270-degree Air heel unit, with the black rubber outsole completing the shoe’s tri-zone construction.

• Low-profile Air Max 270 silhouette — Nike’s first lifestyle-first Air Max design, built for all-day comfort rather than running performance, in its most graphic black-and-white expression
• Full-black engineered mesh upper with directional knit texture across every zone for a structured, breathable, all-black surface with close-range pattern depth
• White Nike Swoosh on the lateral panel for a high-contrast brand mark that ties visually to the white midsole below
• “Air 270” lateral wordmark detail for heritage Air Max series identification on the black upper
• Black laces and black ankle collar for a fully cohesive all-black tonal upper finish
• White lightweight foam midsole at the forefoot for a clean white sole zone that bridges the black upper and the black Air heel unit
• 270-degree large-format visible Air Max heel unit in black — Nike’s largest lifestyle Air unit at the time of the shoe’s release, wrapping the full heel perimeter for maximum cushioning and maximum visual presence
• Black rubber outsole for a fully tonal dark ground contact that completes the three-zone black-white-black sole construction
• Available in US and EU sizes

Black, white, and anthracite — the Nike Air Max 270 Black White is the contemporary Air Max statement shoe, the design that took Nike’s greatest cushioning technology and built an entire lifestyle silhouette around it, the shoe that made the Air unit the architecture rather than the detail.