After Seven Years, the Nike Air Force 1 Low “What The LA” Has a Return Date
Lakers purple on one heel, Dodgers blue on the other toe and Los Angeles script tying it all together.
Name: Nike Air Force 1 “What The LA”
Colorway: White/Black-Hyper Jade
SKU: CT1117-100
MSRP: $125 USD
Release Date: October 22
Where to Buy: Nike
Nike is reissuing the Air Force 1 Low “What The LA,” returning the deliberately mismatched pair to shelves for the first time since its 2019 debut. Dressed in an official White/Black-Hyper Jade colorway, the sneaker splits Los Angeles sports colors unevenly across the left and right shoes, keeping the original concept intact rather than updating it.
The “What The” formula has been one of Nike’s most recognizable storytelling devices, built on the idea of remixing colors and materials from past releases into a single chaotic design. The concept traces back to the Nike SB Dunk Low “What The Dunk” in 2007, which stitched together elements from earlier SB Dunk colorways. Nike Basketball later carried the approach onto signature models, including “What The” editions of the Kobe 8, KD 6 and LeBron 11 in the early 2010s.
The “What The LA” applies that same remix logic to a city rather than an archive of past colorways. On the left shoe, a red toe sits beneath white overlays, with tan suede panels leading back to a heel finished in Lakers purple. The right shoe takes a completely different route, opening with Dodgers blue at the toe, moving through green side panels and wrapping the heel counter in gold.
Neither side commits to a single franchise’s palette from front to back, a choice carried over directly from the 2019 pair. What keeps the two shoes reading as a set is the Los Angeles script lettering applied to the lateral heel and the insole of each shoe, along with the standard Air Force 1 Low build underneath. Beyond that shared branding and silhouette, the left and right shoes have almost nothing visually in common, which is exactly the point of the “What The” treatment.
