The shoe that changed it all, and by all I do mean all. When the Cortez debuted in ’72 it gave Nike the cash it needed to continue to grow while on a technical, aesthetic level there was nothing like it on the market. A favorite of celebrities throughout the decades, this take dresses the Cortez with a premium white leather upper and crisp pebbled, pine-green leather along the Swoosh and heel. A classic Nike hangtag is stitched atop a fabric tongue before we drop into the Cortez’s signature midsole with additional foam insert in the heel, layered above a herringbone rubber outsole. Cortez 'Gorge Green'