The Nike Kobe 8 ‘Shanghai Fireworks’ (GS) prints an exploding firework graphic across the full mesh upper, swirling from white through orange with nothing interrupting it. A bronze Swoosh and Kobe’s signature at the heel sit in the only metallic and the only solid tone on the shoe. Underneath, a glass-based carbon shank shows through the translucent outsole, which is as much a design choice as a structural one.
