It’s been almost 40 years since Michael Jordan’s first signature shoe set foot on the court. It was 1985, and that shoe was the Air Jordan I: a simple leather high-top with Swoosh branding to the side and a black upper with red accents. Nobody knew it at the time, but this was to be sneakers’ “one small step” moment and something that would shape the relationship between fashion and sportswear for decades to come.
Fast forward to the present day and it’s difficult to quantify the effect the Jordan brand has had on footwear,