Nike and Victor Solomon revive Trophies for WNBA All-Star weekend

Nike and Victor Solomon are bringing back the Trophies pack on July 10, and this one has the kind of on-site energy that makes a sneaker release feel like part of the event, not a separate transaction. The drop is set to land exclusively at Shoe Palace inside Grand Canal Shoppes at The Venetian in Las Vegas, with pairs priced at $250 apiece and a wider release also expected in Chicago for WNBA All-Star.

The pack stays locked into Solomon’s trophy language, but the palette flips from the earlier white, gold, and black NBA All-Star version to something darker and sharper for the women’s game. The new trio covers the Air Max 90, Air Force 1 Low, and Air Foamposite One, and the whole thing reads like hardware dressed for a tunnel walk: black-and-metallic-gold, polished, ceremonial, and just loud enough to feel expensive without tipping into costume.

The Air Max 90 and Air Force 1 do the heaviest lifting visually. Both show up with fully black uppers, gold laces, and gold signatures embroidered on the heel, but the details split them apart in the way good sneaker design should. The Air Max 90 gets Swarovski crystal treatment on the Swoosh, while the Air Force 1 answers with a gold Swoosh built with triangular texture, the kind of finish that catches light from across a crowded retail floor. The Foamposite One takes the more ornate route, with white side panels, black lace-panel treatment, and all-over-print detailing that keeps the model in Solomon’s trophy-case lane.

That’s why this release works. Women’s basketball is carrying real momentum, and Nike isn’t treating WNBA All-Star like a footnote to the men’s calendar. It is using the weekend to stage a collectible product with art-object pull, the sort of sneaker that feels better the closer you get to it. Solomon already has the trophy cred to make that move believable, after designing the NBA’s 75th Anniversary trophies and other major league hardware, so Nike can sell this as more than a color swap. It is a piece of basketball culture with display-case value.

The earlier Trophies launch in Los Angeles showed how tightly Nike wants this world built. Shoe Palace Melrose hosted a community space with immersive basketball-inspired art projects, including a basketball-net workshop and a message in a vessel activity, while the Air Foamposite One Westside Beaches and Air Force 1 Sunset Strip were both capped at 1,000 pairs or units. This Las Vegas run keeps that same scarcity logic intact, but the setting is even cleaner: WNBA All-Star weekend, a trophy-minded collaborator, and a release built to look as important as the moment around it.