1985 Air Jordan Nylon Jacket

Nike launched the Air Jordan line in late 1984 and backed it through 1985 with a tight capsule of satin and nylon outerwear built around the Wings logo — the basketball-and-outstretched-wings symbol designed by Nike's then-creative director Peter Moore (the same designer behind the original Air Jordan 1 itself), which functioned as the first major Air Jordan visual identity before being replaced by the Jumpman silhouette with the launch of the Air Jordan III in 1988. This 1985 nylon jacket runs the varsity-adjacent silhouette at the center of the launch-era program: a glossy black nylon shell with full-length blue mesh side panels running from underarm to hem, ribbed black collar/cuffs/hem, zip-front closure, and a small embroidered red Wings logo set to the right chest at the heart. The Nike neck label reads to the specific 1985 construction window, and the overall layout — the slim side-panel color block, the modest chest logo, the restrained nylon-and-knit construction — sits closer to a team-issued warmup piece than to a retail outerwear execution.