Brand: Nike
Model: SB Force 58 "Barbie"
Colorway: Pink Foam/Anthracite/Sail
Style Code: FN8894-621
Release Date: Summer 2023
Price: $80
Buy: Nike SNKRS
If there's a company that hasn't overdosed on Barbie Pink just yet, it's one of the world's final holdouts. From beauty brands to household names, every corporate entity is getting in on the Barbie movie action, except the world's biggest sportswear companies, for some reason.
Well, that all changes with the reveal of Nike's Barbie sneakers! Except that they're an unusual model and don't have an official release date yet. But, hey, genuine Barbie Pink Nikes, finally.
The "Barbie" Nike SB Force 58 is exactly what it sounds like: a bubblegum pink colorway of one of Nike's more obscure Air Force 1 spin-offs. You can see a little Barbie logo on the sneaker's tongue, too.
The skate-oriented SB Force 58 an odd choice for a Barbie-themed colorway given that all it'd really take would be a couple pink-toned AF1s or Jordans to take a create a more holistic Nike x Barbie team-up — even the relatively young Air Max Scorpion channels Barbie vibes more organically.
But it's not like there's a dearth of Barbie merch or discourse, really.
With record-breaking box office openings and an impossibly vast number of memes — buy your Barbenheimer T-shirt now! — there's so much Barbie that it feels like it'd take a miracle to merely come out on the other end of Barbiemania free from Barbie OD.
Still, ain't it odd that there's never been a proper Barbie x Nike/adidas/Reebok/PUMA/etc. team-up? And ain't it doubly odd that the Barbie-themed Nikes aren't set to release in time for the movie's premiere?
At least there are plenty of Barbiefied Crocs to go around in the meantime.
