NIGO and Nike revive Last Orgy 2 with LO2 Air Force 1 launch

Nike and NIGO are reopening one of streetwear’s most collectible chapters with the LO2 Air Force 1, a project that reaches back to Last Orgy 2, the early-1990s magazine column that helped define NIGO and Jun Takahashi’s influence. The shoe and matching apparel will launch exclusively on May 1 at the Design Museum in London, then widen to HUMAN MADE’s webstore and Undercover stores on May 2, making this less a standard sneaker drop than a carefully staged return to the source material.

The Air Force 1 itself gives the collaboration real weight. Nike’s original low-cut model debuted in late October 1982, when the brand said it cushioned shock 30 percent better and was 20 percent more resilient than a standard shoe. By 1985, it had crossed into lifestyle wear, and it remains Nike’s best-selling shoe of all time. The LO2 pair leans into that canon with the sleeker 2001-era Air Force 1 shape, including a narrower toe box and a more athletic fit, then folds in Sail and Loyal Blue patent-leather blocking that Nike says was matched to the original NOWHERE boutique sign in Tokyo’s Ura-Harajuku district.

That detail matters because NOWHERE, which opened in 1993, was a crucial early home for both BAPE and Undercover, and a kind of proving ground for the visual language that still powers Japanese streetwear. The LO2 reference, pulled from NIGO and Takahashi’s column, gives the project a collector’s logic that goes beyond colorway nostalgia. It is not just looking backward. It is reconnecting the Air Force 1 to the exact Harajuku ecosystem that helped make collaborations feel culturally specific instead of merely commercial.

The apparel sharpens that point. Nike’s collection includes an LO2 coaches jacket and T-shirt based on pieces NIGO says he and Jun Takahashi were making in 1993, which turns the release into a wearable archive as much as a sneaker launch. It also arrives as the Design Museum opens NIGO: From Japan With Love, the first UK exhibition dedicated to NIGO and the first museum retrospective outside Japan devoted to him. Running from May 1 to October 4, 2026, it will feature more than 700 objects from his archive and collaborations. Nike says this is the first of several exclusive Air Force 1 styles in a multi-season, multi-continent journey, with future pairs drawn from NIGO’s friends and personal history. If that promise holds, LO2 is not a one-off homage. It is the opening chapter in a much larger Air Force 1 revival built on provenance, not just hype.