Air Jordan 4028 "Metallic Gold"
Retail: $205 | Style Code: IR2085-001
Release Date: April 24th, 2026
Air Jordan 4028 "Black/Metallic Gold"
Two eras of Jordan performance, unified in the colorway that has always meant something specific on the court. The Air Jordan 4028 "Black/Metallic Gold" continues Jordan Brand's most architecturally ambitious ongoing experiment — the hybrid series built on the Air Jordan 40's fortieth anniversary platform that combines the DNA of two signature models into a single silhouette — and delivers it in the black and gold combination that requires no explanation and offers no compromise. This is a shoe for the player who wants to look like they have already won before the game begins.
Built off the Air Jordan 40 foundation, the 4028 adds its most statement-making feature through a layered fold-down knit shroud — the signature collar element drawn from the Air Jordan XX8 that gave that shoe its boot-like presence and polarized the basketball footwear world in the year of its debut. A glossy black patent leather toe box anchors the front of the shoe while the rest of the ankle-high upper is draped in stealthy black — the two surface treatments creating a material contrast that rewards attention without requiring it, the patent catching light at the toe while the upper absorbs it everywhere else. Metallic gold arrives at the branding, hardware, and accent detailing with the conviction of a colorway that understands what gold has always meant in the Jordan Brand universe — achievement, standard, the color of the hardware that gets hoisted at the end of the season that matters. Pearl white lands on the midsole with the clean contrast that grounds the black and gold above it.
The Air Jordan XX8 was one of Tinker Hatfield's most unconventional performance designs — a shoe that used its shroud as both structural support and design statement, that asked the player to commit to a silhouette unlike anything the signature line had produced before it. The 4028 revisits one of Tinker Hatfield's more intriguing success stories, honoring what made the XX8 significant while building it into a performance platform that reflects forty years of Jordan Brand engineering. Black and gold. The court. The standard. The shoe.