Nike’s New Dunk Low Pair Looks Like It’s Already Been Through a Season

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• Two Earth-Toned Dunks, One Release Date
• The Shape That Never Left
• Bronze Eclipse: The Warmer Half
• Fir: The Outdoor Half
• Where and How Much

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Nike is putting out two new Dunk Low Retro colorways under the same IM4414 model number on June 29, and while they don’t share a name, they clearly share a mood board. Bronze Eclipse (IM4414-200) pairs a Pale Ivory and Pale Vanilla base with bronze-toned overlays and black detailing, while Fir (IM4414-300) goes fully into autumn-coded territory with a deep forest green built up against Light British Tan, Sesame, and black. Treated as a single drop rather than two unrelated releases, the pairing reads like Nike hedging its bets on which shade of “lived-in” resonates harder this season — one leaning toward worn leather and old brass, the other toward hiking trail and tree cover.

Neither colorway is flashy by Dunk standards, and that’s clearly the point. Both sit inside a run of recent Dunk Low Retro releases that have quietly drifted away from the silhouette’s loud, college-color roots toward something closer to a wardrobe staple — the kind of shoe built to disappear into an outfit rather than announce itself.

Nike Dunk Low returns in two earthy colorways, blending vintage-inspired details with rugged textures and timeless streetwear appeal.

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The Dunk Low’s basic story by now needs no introduction, but it’s worth the brief refresher for anyone evaluating where a new colorway sits in the lineage. Peter Moore — the designer behind the Air Jordan 1 — sketched what became the Dunk in 1985 under the working name College Color High, built around the “Be True to Your School” campaign that matched the shoe’s two-tone blocking to specific NCAA programs’ team colors. The low-top variant became the silhouette’s most enduring expression: a padded collar, foam midsole, and a basketball-shoe pivot circle on the outsole gave it just enough heritage detailing to read as authentic, while its simple leather-panel construction made it endlessly adaptable to new color stories. The shoe found a second life in the late 1990s vintage boom, then again in the 2000s through both the Japan-specific CO.JP program and the skate-focused SB Dunk line, each era adding to the silhouette’s reputation as a blank canvas rather than a fixed design. Forty years and thousands of colorways later, that adaptability is still the entire premise — the Dunk Low absorbs whatever palette gets thrown at it, which is exactly what’s happening here with two genuinely different takes wearing the same shape.

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IM4414-200 keeps things in a tighter, warmer register. The Bronze Eclipse name points to a metallic-leaning brown that sits over a Pale Ivory and Pale Vanilla base, with black rounding out the palette — a combination that reads closer to aged leather and old hardware than to anything overtly seasonal. It’s the more versatile of the two on paper, built for year-round rotation rather than a specific climate or season, and it slots in alongside other recent Dunk Low Retro releases that have leaned into vintage-inspired neutrals over bold blocking. Where Fir commits hard to a single mood, Bronze Eclipse plays it more neutral by design — the kind of colorway meant to pair with whatever’s already in a closet rather than anchor a specific outfit around it.

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IM4414-300 is the more deliberately constructed of the two. The colorway uses a deep forest-green “Fir” as its anchor, layered against Light British Tan, Sesame, and black in a way that’s clearly meant to evoke outdoor gear rather than basketball courts. Fir shows up across the toe box, eyestay, and heel, while warmer tan-brown tones move into the quarter panel and heel surround — the kind of two-zone color split that gives the shoe visual structure without resorting to a hard color block. Black handles the mudguard, the Swoosh, and the collar, pulling the whole upper together and keeping the earthier tones from reading as too soft. Brown laces and lining add warmth, and a Sesame-colored midsole introduces a touch of deliberate, pre-aged yellowing — a detail that’s become a recurring trick across recent Dunk releases looking to simulate a shoe that’s already broken in.

The result leans hard into outdoor-wear and vintage-gear references rather than the Dunk’s basketball roots, which puts it in conversation with the broader gorpcore-adjacent earth-tone trend that’s been working through shoe releases for the past several seasons. It’s a fall-and-winter shoe in spirit even with a late-June release date, and it reads as the more considered design of the pair — built around a specific reference point rather than just a palette.

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Both pairs are confirmed for a Japan release on June 29 through Nike’s own retail channels, landing at the standard ¥17,050 (tax included) price point Nike Japan currently has set for Dunk Low Retro men’s releases. Fir’s broader release outside Japan has been separately dated for July 1 at a $130 price point, suggesting Japan gets first access to at least one half of this pairing by a couple of days; Bronze Eclipse’s international timing has been less clearly pinned down, though it’s already showing up at retailers like Culture Kings in Australia and New Zealand, which points to a release that’s either already live or imminent outside Japan as well.

Neither shoe is positioned as a limited or hyped release — there’s no convincer attached, no anniversary tie-in beyond the Dunk’s ongoing 40-year run, and no SNKRS-exclusive lottery structure mentioned in either listing. These read as straightforward additions to Nike’s seasonal Dunk rotation, the kind of release built to sit on shelves and restock rather than sell out in minutes — which, depending on what you’re looking for from a Dunk drop, is either the least interesting thing about this pairing or the most useful one. For anyone trying to build a rotation around the silhouette rather than chase a specific resale spike, that’s arguably the more practical outcome: two genuinely wearable colorways, available at retail, on the same day, without a raffle to enter first.