Air Jordan 3 Retro "Spring is in the Air"
Retail: $210 | Style Code: IF4396-100
Release Date: March 28th, 2026
The third chapter gets a seasonal refresh that feels anything but seasonal. The Air Jordan 3 Retro "Easter" takes the silhouette that Tinker Hatfield built around the idea of visible innovation — the first Jordan to show its Air unit, the first to introduce the elephant print, the first to make Michael Jordan consider staying with Nike — and dresses it in the pastel palette of spring with the architectural confidence of a shoe that has never needed a special occasion to justify its existence. The season changes. The standard does not.
Soft mint, pale lavender, and blush white move across the AJ3's iconic upper construction with the freshness of a colorway that earns its seasonal assignment through execution rather than obligation — the elephant print overlay rendered in a tonal grey that sits gently against the pastel base, the Jumpman and Nike Air branding landing in complementary tones that tie the palette together at every point it needs anchoring. The visible heel Air unit arrives in a clear or lightly tinted finish that lets the technology speak through the colorway rather than beneath it, while the midsole sits in the clean off-white that the AJ3 has always worn best. Tumbled leather and premium materials across the upper carry the spring palette with the material quality the silhouette demands.
The Air Jordan 3 "Easter" belongs to the lineage of holiday colorways that prove the AJ3's greatest strength is its ability to wear any palette without losing itself — a silhouette so structurally assured that it can absorb the softest, most celebratory color combination in the calendar and still read as a serious shoe. The elephant print remains. The Air remains. The excellence remains. Spring just gets to claim it for a season.