The year 2022 marked a decade of American artist and designer Tom Sachs’s ongoing partnership with Nike, which the two call NikeCraft. So far, NikeCraft has produced six shoes: four widespread releases — the original Mars Yard (2012), the Mars Yard 2.0 (2017) and the Mars Yard Overshoe (2019) and the all-new General Purpose Shoe, which debuted in 2022 — and two friends-and-family pairs — a Cole Haan Mission Control Wingtip (2012) and the Mars Yard 2.5 (2020).
The initial outer-space theme stemmed from Sachs’s artistic study of the moon landing. Creating everything from new NASA posters to to-scale space shuttles kitted with hidden bar carts, he made one of the most memorable feats of human engineering feel fun, all while building a cult following for his in-house studio team, The Tom Sachs Studio.
Their uniforms went viral online, and they were often the first to test the newest Sachs-designed sneaker and provide valuable, practical feedback. That’s how we got here, to a simple, function-first silhouette Sachs proudly calls “boring”: the General Purpose Shoe, which retails for $109.99.
But, will it continue to evolve like the earlier Mars Yard or is this a one-off release? Which colors are out now, and are there more coming? And, how are these so cheap when other Tom Sachs sneakers sell for way more? These questions, and more, answered below.