Tom Sachs & Nike Are Bringing Back the Mars Yard
Celebrate “Space Camp” with the Mars Yard 2.0.
Back in 2012, Tom Sachs and
Now it appears that the kicks will be making a comeback in new and improved form. Officially dubbed the Mars Yard 2.0, the design is an ever so subtle rework of the original — the new mesh is the most obvious change — after it was discovered that the OG Mars Yard “breaks like a paper clip” as it repeatedly creases at the same spot. As Sachs himself notes, “We put it through all of the usual Nike tests, but we discovered an unknown unknown.”
Stay tuned for more concrete release info and expect the collab to launch next week for $200 USD at nikecraft.com as Sachs and the Swoosh gear up for “Space Camp” — an installation billed as “part obstacle course and part film screening” that stresses “the importance of failure in art and athletics.”
