Nike's Mind 001 Flyknit "Bronze Eclipse" Turns the Gradient Up and the Nodes Orange
Marking one of the sharper colorways in the Mind 001’s rapidly expanding Flyknit lineup.
Name: Nike Mind 001 “Bronze Eclipse”
Colorway: Bronze Eclipse/Black/Total Orange
SKU: IR2175-200
MSRP: $95 USD
Release Date: TBC
Nike is preparing another Mind 001 Flyknit colorway for 2026, and the “Bronze Eclipse” might be the most visually cohesive of the Flyknit iterations released so far. A black-to-Bronze Eclipse gradient runs from the top of the Flyknit upper downward, landing on Total Orange foam sphere nodes that glow underneath.
Where the “Hyper Royal” Flyknit shifts from black to blue and the “Cucumber Calm” reads soft and pastel, the Bronze Eclipse colorway operates in warmer, richer territory — a metallic earth tone that picks up the Total Orange nodes underneath rather than contrasting against them. The result is a shoe that holds together visually from top to bottom in a way that not every Mind colorway manages, with each element informing the next rather than competing for attention.
The Flyknit upper, introduced to the Mind 001 after the original padded perforated material, continues to be the design decision that opens the silhouette up to a wider range of colorway strategies. The lightweight performance fabric takes gradients more cleanly than the original construction, which is part of why Nike has been able to run through the IR2175 colorway family at pace. The “Bronze Eclipse” joins “Hyper Royal” and “Cucumber Calm” in a Flyknit lineup that is expanding at a rate consistent with how seriously Nike is treating the Mind collection as a long-term rotation rather than a launch moment.
