Nike is the drama. Classy to the point of concern, the Nike First Sight sneaker is a futuristic gem that is already a top contender for the Swoosh's chicest sneaker — ever. Pretty big deal for such a young sneaker.

Despite existing connotations surrounding all black colorways, the Nike First Sight sneaker is far from basic — it is all the drama.

And in the case of the Nike First Sight (and Cardi B), drama is a very good thing. It's moody, broody, and right on the precipice of Nike's broader shift toward sleeker sneaker designs created solely to look really cool. The function is there, but fashion is the focus.

The sculpted upper wears an extended Swoosh and a mesh upper that gives the shoe a cyborg-like quintessence that's fit for the finest of technocratic utopias.

Available on the Nike website for $120, the First Sight sneaker is cutting-edge personified.

At the back, the First Sight pulls us into the void with a hollowed-out cavity just above the heel and the sloped wedge outsole and mid-split design round out the First Sight's experimental design that looks like it came to visit the Swoosh from another planet. 

Not a wedge sneaker per se, but the First Sight’s delightful weird factor exists in the same plane of zany reality.

In that sense, it’s like the anti-thesis of corpcore, yet its chicness is still its superpower.

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