Nike Air Max Plus OG "France"
Retail: $190 | Style Code: IQ0170-400
Release Date: March 23rd, 2026
Les Bleus on the silhouette that the streets claimed first. The Nike Air Max Plus OG "France" takes the TN — a shoe that found its most passionate audience in the banlieues and football terraces of France long before it found mainstream approval anywhere else — and dresses it in the tricolor with the understanding that this colorway is not a tribute from the outside looking in. It is a homecoming.
The deep navy base moves across the Air Max Plus's famously aggressive upper construction — the wave-shaped TPU overlays, the tapered waist, the exaggerated heel — with the weight of a color that the French national team and the French street have both claimed as their own. White lands across the midfoot paneling and lacing system with the precision of the tricolor's middle stripe, while the rouge arrives at the Swoosh, the heel tab, and the outsole accent with the exact saturation that the French flag has always carried — present, unflinching, and entirely sure of itself. The tuned Air cushioning units in the heel and forefoot deliver the responsive, high-impact ride that made the Air Max Plus a performance landmark when it debuted in 1998 and a cultural one in every year since.
The TN and France have a relationship that runs deeper than any official partnership could manufacture — a shoe adopted by a culture that recognized something of itself in its aggression, its edge, and its refusal to be polite about what it was. The "France" colorway honors that relationship completely, putting the tricolor on the silhouette that the country's streets made iconic and returning it to the place it has always belonged. Allez.