Valentines Day Sneakers With Extra Flair: What Nike and Jordan Brand Released

The Valentines Day sneakers of 2022 were a set of mostly pink and red pairs from Nike and Jordan Brand, and they came with extra flair: lace-look trim, “Love” charms and roses debossed into the heel. This page looks back at six pairs, with retail prices listed from $80 to $200 and release dates from 21 January to June 2022, each tied to a source we could read. Where two sources gave different figures, both are shown.

• Earliest US date and lowest price of the six: the Nike GTS 97 “Valentine’s Day”, listed for 21 January 2022 at $80 by Sneaker News.
• Dunk Low and Air Force 1 Low: $120 and $110 according to Hypebeast, both listed for February 2022.
• Air Jordan 5 Low “Arctic Pink”: listed for 11 February 2022 in the US, at $170 by Sneaker News and $175 by StockX.
• Not named a Valentine’s pair by any source we read: the Air Jordan 6 “Red Oreo”, listed at $200 by StockX for June 2022.

  Which Valentines Day sneakers did Nike and Jordan Brand release in 2022?

  More than this page covers: Sneaker News’s 7 February 2022 guide listed nine Valentine’s pairs from Nike and Jordan Brand. This page follows four of them, the Nike GTS 97 that the guide did not list, and one red colorway that none of the pages we read called a Valentine’s pair.

  The table gives each pair’s style code, retail price and release date, with the source named in the cell. We could not open a Nike launch page for any of them, so every figure comes from a sneaker news site or from the product details on StockX, each linked where it is used.

  Where sources disagreed, both figures are shown instead of one being picked. Sneaker News listed the Air Force 1 Low at $100 while Hypebeast and StockX listed $110, and it listed the Dunk Low for 14 February while StockX recorded 12 February. Market prices move and are shown for reference, not as a promise.

  Pair	Style code	Retail price and source	Release date and source
  Nike GTS 97 “Valentine’s Day”	DQ5026-121	$80 (Sneaker News, men’s)	21 January 2022 (Sneaker News)
  Air Jordan 5 Low “Arctic Pink” (women’s)	DA8016-806	$175 (StockX) or $170 (Sneaker News)	11 February 2022 (StockX, Sneaker News)
  Air Jordan 1 Mid “Valentine’s Day” (women’s)	DR0174-500	$110 (StockX)	12 February 2022 (StockX)
  Nike Dunk Low “Valentine’s Day” (women’s)	DQ9324-600	$120 (Hypebeast, StockX)	12 February 2022 (StockX) or 14 February 2022 (Sneaker News)
  Nike Air Force 1 Low “Valentine”	DQ9320-100	$110 (Hypebeast, StockX) or $100 (Sneaker News)	14 February 2022 (StockX)
  Air Jordan 6 “Red Oreo”	CT8529-162	$200 (StockX)	4 June 2022 (StockX) or 25 June 2022 in the US (Sneaker News)

  Was the Nike Court Vision Low also a Valentine’s pair?

  Yes. According to Sneaker News’s 7 February 2022 guide, a women’s Nike Court Vision Low “Valentine’s Day” (style code DQ9321-100) was listed at $70 for February 2022.

  What else did Jordan Brand list for the holiday?

  The same guide listed an Air Jordan 1 Low “Pomegranate” (style code DH5893-600) for 2022, next to the Air Jordan 1 Mid and Air Jordan 5 Low covered above. It gave no release day or price for the Pomegranate pair.

  Did adidas have Valentine’s pairs too?

  The guide listed an UltraBOOST 5.0 DNA “Valentine’s Day” (GX4105) and an IVY PARK x adidas “IVY HEART” set dated 9 February 2022. It listed the women’s Stan Smith (GW9717) at $100 and the women’s UltraBOOST OG (GX2236) at $200.

  Which Dunk Low was nicknamed the Lingerie Dunk?

  The Lingerie Dunk was the Nike Dunk Low “Valentine’s Day”, a team red and pink pair that some people online named for the lace-inspired trim around its Swoosh. According to Hypebeast’s report of 10 January 2022, the upper mixes a twill base with a tumbled leather overlay and ends in a translucent pink outsole.

  The 2022 iteration has been dubbed by some online as the “Lingerie Dunks” as the forthcoming silhouette comes with a pink-lace-inspired fabric that outlines the Swoosh.

  

  Hypebeast gave the retail price as $120, and StockX lists the same figure, with a release date of 12 February 2022 and a women’s label. Sneaker News’s 7 February guide gave 14 February instead. For more Valentine’s Dunks, see our Valentine’s Day Dunks article.

  What set the Air Force 1 Low Valentine apart from a plain white pair?

  The Air Force 1 Low “Valentine” was a white leather Air Force 1 with pink and red accents and the word “Love” on its Swoosh and vamp charms. According to Hypebeast’s report of 23 January 2022, the Swoosh is pink with “Nike” and “Love” in tile embossing, square pink charms with red lettering spell the same two words along the vamp, and the whole outsole is pink.

  

  The tongue and heel tabs mix pink with red, and Sneaker News said the design took inspiration from handmade beaded bracelets. Hypebeast listed the pair at $110, and StockX listed $110 with a release date of 14 February 2022, while Sneaker News listed $100. For more Valentine’s Air Force 1 pairs, see our Valentines Air Force 1 article.

  The women’s Air Jordan 1 Mid carried roses on the heel

  The Air Jordan 1 Mid “Valentine’s Day” (style code DR0174-500) was a women’s Jordan 1 Mid in dusted pinks with roses debossed into the heel. Hypebeast’s report of 5 January 2022 counted three roses in alternating tones, a muted rose hue on the lower heel overlays and ankle flaps, and clean white mesh on the tongue and collar.

  

  Sneaker News’s first look of 4 January 2022 called it one of the best picks of that year’s Valentine’s pairs.

  Both early reports gave only a loose window: Hypebeast wrote that the pair would drop closer to February, and Sneaker News wrote that February 2022 seemed more than likely. StockX’s product details (a Chinese-language page) list a release date of 12 February 2022 and a retail price of $110. Our Jordan 1 Mid article lists reasons to keep the silhouette in a rotation.

  Was the Air Jordan 5 Low Arctic Pink a Valentines Day pair?

  Not by name: the Air Jordan 5 Low “Arctic Pink” was a women’s pair that Sneaker News said unofficially kicked off Jordan Brand’s Valentine’s Day celebrations, although its listed colorway name, Arctic Orange/Black/Siren Red, does not mention the holiday. It is the low-top version of the Jordan 5, with a pink leather upper, desaturated netting and hotter pink on the lace lock and Jumpman embroidery.

  

  According to Sneaker News, the pair was listed for Europe on 21 January 2022 and for the US on 11 February 2022, a date it described as following a short delay, with a restock on Nike listed for 28 April 2022. StockX lists a retail price of $175 against Sneaker News’s $170. Our roundup of five new Jordan 5s for 2022 covers the other pairs.

  The GTS 97 was the pair made for drawing on

  The Nike GTS 97 “Valentine’s Day” (style code DQ5026-121) was a sneaker in Sail with lace-like embroidery of hearts and roses, built from a textile that Sneaker News said could be customised with dyes or markers. The colorway is Sail/Velvet Brown-White-Rattan, and the raised thread sits against a canvas backdrop of a similar shade.

  

  Sneaker News called it the newest of many Valentine’s pairs from Nike when it wrote about it on 17 January 2022. It listed 21 January 2022 for North America and a men’s price of $80, which makes it the cheapest of the six and the earliest US date, a day it shares with the Air Jordan 5 Low’s European listing.

  That page described the date as likely and we found no second source for it, so it is the least confirmed date on this page. Our February sneakers article looks at more of that month’s pairs.

  When did the Air Jordan 6 Red Oreo come out?

  The Air Jordan 6 “Red Oreo” (style code CT8529-162) came out in June 2022, about four months after the Valentine’s pairs. None of the pages we read called it a Valentine’s pair, and Sneaker News’s 7 February 2022 guide did not list it. Sneaker News lists 4 June 2022 for Europe and 25 June 2022 for the US, while StockX records 4 June, and a January 2022 preview had also pointed to 4 June.

  

  Sneaker News’s January preview, working from a leaker’s mock-ups, described University Red accents such as the tongue, midsole and pull tab, speckled like the Oreo, on an otherwise solid white upper. Its February page, which also drew on leaked images, named a partly different set of white-speckled details: the lace toggle, heel clip and curved midsole.

  That page said the matte leather upper has no colored nubuck panels, unlike the original Oreo, and traced the nickname to a similar colorway seen in March 2010. StockX lists a retail price of $200 for it. Our Air Jordan 6 history gives the background on the silhouette.

  How do women’s sizes line up with men’s sizes?

  Nike’s size chart puts a women’s size 1.5 above the matching men’s size, so a men’s 8 fits the same shoe as a women’s 9.5. According to Nike’s men’s footwear chart, the men’s row starts at 3.5 beside a women’s 5, and a men’s 10 sits beside a women’s 11.5. Because the offset is constant along the chart, the same arithmetic works in reverse: a women’s 11.5 matches a men’s 10.

  That matters here because StockX labels the Dunk Low, the Air Jordan 1 Mid, the Air Jordan 5 Low and the Air Force 1 Low as women’s pairs, while Sneaker News gave the Air Force 1 Low price as a men’s one. Check the size run before assuming either. Our shoe size conversion article and our article on finding women’s Air Jordans cover the details.