Nike CEO Mark Parker 亲谈品牌的最新研发成果

Nike 日前在美国波特兰总部发表了两款全新运动鞋 Nike Free Flyknit 及 Nike Free Hyperfeel，还有革命性制衣技术「Aeroloft」和「Nature Amplified」，成为运动界的热话。品牌 CEO Mark Parker 在发布会后抽空接受了美国报纸《USA Today》记者 Jeffrey Martin 的访问，亲谈这些新款运动鞋及制衣技术。Mark Parker 于 2006 年正式成为 Nike, Inc. 的 CEO，在此之前他曾经出任品牌的球鞋设计师。由 1979 年加盟至今经已度过 27 个年头，Mark Parker 可谓见尽 Nike 多年发展，对于在今次发布会上发表的最新产品及技术，Mark Parker 就有以下看法：

Some might not know you joined Nike in 1979 as a designer. With today’s unveiling of “Nature Amplified,” highlighted by the Free Flyknit and Free Hyperfeel running shoes, did you ever think footwear and design would ever reach this point?

It’d be easy for me to say, ‘This was part of the plan — we’re right on schedule.’ No, honestly, no. The thing with technology and innovation, doing what we do, working with athletes, is that there is so much potential. I never imagined back in the late ’70s, early ’80s that there would be as much potential to innovate today as there is. People used to ask me — what more can you do with shoes that hasn’t been done? — back in the early ’80s. I see it exponentially open for more opportunity to innovate than back then.

The foot is the instrument, and in the process, you’re emphasizing what’s natural. It feels like there is less to these shoes, but they’re also more innovative. Critics will say it’s more expensive (Flyknit retails for $160, available Aug. 1, while Hyperfeel will cost $175 starting Sept. 5), but it seems high quality. Your response?

It’s new technology so you’re just seeing the very front end of the possibility with Flyknit, Free and the whole concept of Hyperfeel… Those things are in their early stages. I can see — I can’t talk about it here today — but I can see where we’re headed and it’s incredibly exciting. As a designer, I’m excited. Certainly so as the CEO of this company. I’m a product geek. I’m obsessed with working with product, with the athletes, and to see the potential that exists just with the technology we talked about today is huge. Let alone the things we haven’t talked about.

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