Light Bone, Sail, Coconut Milk – there’s no shortage of off-white tones in Nike’s archival palette. But this stripped-back iteration of the Dunk Low in Light Orewood Brown/Sequoia-Guava Ice takes neutral to new territory. The Dunk has, of course, become something of a canvas, on to which a string of designers, artists and collaborators have splashed their most colourful visions. Here perhaps we have a demonstration of the power inherent in a blank sheet of paper. With this being a “Premium” release, the focus is instead on the materials, so a canvas upper with tumbled leather overlays, plus terry cloth lining. Call it the natural selection.

Now, the flipside, a second top-tier Dunk that also puts materials first – the same canvas and leather uppers, with terry liner. But this time, the introduction of a dark, rich green colourway, named for the species of giant redwood endemic to the coastal Pacific Northwest. Fittingly, these are some big, big shoes. Both elevated editions lend themselves to dressier outfits, but – unlike this silhouette in shall we say some of its more distracting guises – would work with almost anything in your wardrobe. Take your Dunks up a notch.

If you can remember the 1990s, you weren’t there. Wait, did we get that right? In any case, last year, adidas pieced together its hazy recollections of the decade, and its decadence, to launch its Orketro model, a new shoe that leaned hard into the weirdest runners of the era. Who better than Mr Sean Wotherspoon, the sneakerhead who made a name for himself with his Nike Air Max 1/97 mash-up, to take on the silhouette? The update he put out earlier this year was a swirl of colours. However, this new version opts for a cleaner off-white palette in canvas, allowing the Orketro’s oddball design to come to the fore.

The 1987 launch of Nike’s Air Max 1 (just the Air Max then) is so significant in sneaker lore that it warrants an entire day of celebration each year. But the 2003 reissue in the Chili colourway made enough of an impression to garner its own homage two decades on. Chili 2.0 is, as the name suggests, a step on from the original (if not the original original) shoe. Or at least the hue of grey across the upper is lighter. But rest assured, the blacked-out mudguard, pop of red on the Swoosh, eyelets and “Big Bubble” Air chamber are all still there.