Nike SB's Air Force 1 City Pack Turns Shops Into Labels

The Nike SB Air Force 1 City Pack is on sale now at select skateshops and on SNKRS in North America and Asia, and it reaches Europe on November 13. Nike SB's line for the pack is "built by the cities where crews connect, style transcends, and inspiration never stops," and the cities in question are four skateshops: Nocturnal in Philadelphia, Fly Streetwear in Shanghai, Ben G in Amsterdam and Instant in Tokyo.

That makes this a different kind of Air Force 1 release from the one Nike SB opened with. The shoe has gone from one colorway in April to a pack where the shop, not the swoosh, decides the story.

Four Shops, Four Pairs, Four Style Codes

Each partner shop got its own colorway of the Air Force 1 Low, and the pairs do not overlap. Ben G's is Light Chocolate and Court Purple under style code IV5289 200, a brown suede with a purple accent. Fly Streetwear's is Photon Dust and University Gold, IV5289 001. Nocturnal's pair is a soft grey and green, IV5289 003, and Instant's wide pair is Black and Royal without logo stamps.

Four codes in one pack is the detail that separates this from a single collaboration. Retail on the Ben G pair is reported at $120, the same ticket Nike SB set for the first skate Air Force 1 in April.

The shop versions and the wide versions are not the same shoe. The shop pairs carry the shop's own logo, and a matching pair without the logo is built for skateshops everywhere.

Instant Went First on October 9

The Tokyo shop sold its pair in store and online on October 9, 2026, three weeks before today's wide release. Sole Retriever covered that first pair as a black and blue City Pack Air Force 1 and noted a second, logo free Black and Royal version is also coming. Ben G followed the next day, with its embroidered pair on sale in store Saturday, October 10, at 11:00 Central European time. Only 300 pairs carry the round Ben G logo, and the Dutch skateshop is the only place that sold them. The Ben G release had a second window too: the webshop opened one minute after midnight on Sunday, October 11.

That order explains the rollout. Nike SB let the shops sell their logo pairs first, in the cities they come from, and only then opened the same silhouettes to everyone through skateshops and SNKRS. Anyone who wanted an embroidered pair had to buy from the shop itself. Anyone who just wants the colorway gets October 30.

Europe Waits Until November 13

North America and Asia get the City Pack today. Europe gets it two weeks later, on November 13, which is the one place where the wide release does not match the shop release: Ben G's Amsterdam pair already sold in Europe on October 10.

So a European buyer has a choice the others do not. The shop logo pair is gone, and the logo free version is two weeks out.

The timing also lines up with the product's own history. Nike SB's skate Air Force 1 arrived at skateshops on April 17 in Light Orewood Brown suede, rebuilt with a lower midsole, a herringbone outsole and fit pods for heel lockdown, and it launched with a Jonathan Mannion campaign tied to the Nike SB team video premiere. The City Pack uses that same construction and changes only who gets to pick the colors.

Nine Shops in July, Four in October

The City Pack is the second time this year Nike SB has handed identity to the retailer. On July 7 the FC Pack put nine core skateshops in their own jerseys, each with a Cumbia inspired, shop branded design. In September, Yuto Horigome's Iron Grey pair arrived as part of Vault 7, an Air Force 1 built around a rider instead of a shop.

Read in order, the year is: a debut colorway in April, nine shop jerseys in July, a pro pair in September, and four city pairs in October. Each step moves a little more of the decision from Nike to the people standing behind the counter.

The numbers on the shelf are plain: four shops, four style codes, one reported price of $120, and two European dates, October 10 for Ben G's capped logo pair and November 13 for the wide City Pack.