Forget-me-nots and Nike unveil Rio Carnival-inspired Total 90 Shox Magia pack
Forget-me-nots turns Nike’s 2003 Total 90 Shox Magia into a Rio Carnival flashpoint, with satin, chrome and two women’s colorways landing June 13 and June 20.
Forget-me-nots has taken one of Nike’s strangest football-era hybrids and dressed it for the parade route. The Japanese women’s sneaker and streetwear boutique’s Total 90 Shox Magia pack arrives in Green Gusto/Black/Metallic Silver and Shy Pink/University Red/Black/Metallic Silver, pairing a gradient satin upper with chrome detailing and metallic silver overlays. At $150 a pair, it feels priced like a premium lifestyle sneaker, but styled like a costume piece with a streetwear passport.
The rollout is split in two. The first release lands June 13 through Forget-me-nots, while Nike SNKRS gets the wider June 20 launch at 2:00 PM. The pack is women’s-exclusive, and the styles are tagged IQ5683-300 and IQ5683-601. Nike also built in three sets of laces, a small but useful detail that makes the shoe feel less like a museum piece and more like something meant to be worn, switched up, and styled hard.
The design language comes from Forget-me-nots’ “Rhythm of Liberation” concept, which the boutique says is inspired by Brazil’s Rio Carnival. That influence shows in the shoe’s sheen and movement: satin that catches light, chrome that sharpens the edges, and colorways that lean into spectacle without losing the football-rooted shape underneath. The Total 90 Shox Magia is itself a deep cut worth revisiting, a hybrid of the Total 90 III soccer shoe and Shox technology that dates back to 2003. In 2026, that kind of archive pull lands differently. It is not just nostalgia for old Nike hardware, but a reminder that sport silhouettes can still carry fashion meaning when they are remixed with intent.
Forget-me-nots also keeps its own identity visible. Sneaker News noted FMN branding on the right insole and a forget-me-not flower on the left, while the boutique’s floral insoles reinforce the label’s signature. This is only its second official Nike-related chapter after the 2023 Jordan Brand Air Ship project, and the contrast is telling: the earlier shoe was more restrained, while this one is unabashedly maximal. That is exactly why it has a real shot at moving beyond boutique sneaker circles. It plugs into Nike’s football-inspired lifestyle push ahead of the 2026 FIFA World Cup, but it does so with enough gloss, color and cultural specificity to feel like more than a niche callback.
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