The Nike Air Max DN 'Doernbecher 2025' employs a ventilated black mesh build with metallic gold accents. Along with inspirational words denoting the joys and hardships of life, the upper features embossed musical notes drawn from a song that shoe designer Connor Kassing Fernández wrote with his sister. Gold speckles cover a black foam midsole with a four-tube Air-sole unit in the heel. Underfoot, the translucent glow-in-the-dark rubber outsole displays Connor's personal motto — step by step — in English and Spanish.