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FLYWIRE TECHNOLOGY
Flywire is Nike’s brightest and latest innovation – it’s actually a performaance architecture that has enabled designers to create some of the lightest footwear ever. The system utilizes super-thin and incredibly strong, high-density nylon fibers which are placed in carefully chosen locations to add strength, like an extra set of man-made tendons. Inspired by the design of suspension bridges, you can literally see Flywire at work in the new Nike basketball shoe, the Hyperdunk, as well as in the new Olympic track spikes. Amazingly, it also works in apparel as well...


FLYWIRE WINDRUNNER
The original Windrunner was never a heavy jacket, far from it in fact. But Nike Apparel Designer Jarrett Reynolds decided to make the classic Windrunner so damn light, it’s virtually translucent. The remixed version is made from diaphanous Japanese nylon, has single layer ribbing, a digitally printed chevron (as opposed to seams) and utilises Flywire cables for structure – it now weighs half the weight! The wafer-thin Flywire cables add a distinctive linear edge to the garment – the four threads on the right and left chest, four lines on each shoulder and two sets of four on the back represent 080808, the opening day in Beijing this summer. As Jarrett says “we have created a garment that is not only physically light, but visibly light as well.” Neat huh?

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