Nike Cryoshot Striker 1976Slawn

Product Description

The Nike Cryoshot Striker 1976 Slawn is Nigerian-born artist Slawn's contribution to Nike's X2 World Cup collection representing Nigeria, transforming the Nike Striker 1976, one of the brand's earliest football boot silhouettes predating Nike's mainstream football program, into a lifestyle sneaker through the Cryoshot process, with a canvas upper covered in Slawn's signature hand-drawn graffiti illustrations and black marker artwork across the Natural off-white base, making the graphics themselves the primary design element rather than the premium leather or suede used by other collaborators in the series, creating the most artistically expressive and most visually unique of the seven X2 Cryoshot pairs. The Striker 1976's status as Nike's oldest boot in the pack makes it the deepest archive pull of the entire X2 series, representing Nike Football's earliest years and connecting the collaboration to the foundational history of the brand's involvement in the sport in a way that newer silhouettes chosen by other collaborators cannot. Slawn's marker-art illustration approach references the handmade poster and flyer aesthetic of Nigeria's street culture and music scene rather than the refined premium material approaches of the Jacquemus and PEACEMINUSONE collaborations, with the Bravehearts Ladies Foundation benefiting from associated apparel sales as a conscious community element built into the release. The translucent Cryoshot sole encases the Striker's original 1976 stud configuration underfoot, completing the conversion from a pitch-only boot to a wearable street sneaker.

Released June 11, 2026 via Slawn and the Nigerian Football Federation store, June 13 via Dover Street Market, and June 16 via SNKRS and select retailers at $210 retail with style code II9933-100.

The Nike Cryoshot Striker 1976 Slawn was released on June 16, 2026 with a retail price of $210.