Nike Women’s First Sight Mirage “Summit White” Was Built From Scratch, Not the Archive

Nike does not call this shoe the Nike Mirage. It calls it the First Sight Mirage, and the two missing words carry the story. Mirage is one of three models in First Sight, a women’s footwear collection Nike revealed in March 2026 and built from a blank sheet rather than pulled out of the archive. The Summit White pair, style code HQ2412-100, went out in the model’s opening wave in June. Three months later it has vanished from Nike’s own site.

First Sight is three shoes, and each one is a sport archetype crossed with a dress shoe. Noir is a track spike laid over a loafer, with a wedge that mimics a sprinter’s stance in the blocks. Shadow is a slip-on that borrows its traction pattern from Nike’s early-2000s basketball footwear. Mirage is a football boot crossed with an Oxford, and its cushioning is built from 3D-sculpted TPU spikes filled with foam. Nike’s Jeff Scott, an expert on its Energy Footwear team, framed the brief as a question: how do you make women fall in love with these shoes the first time they see them. Thomasin Hummerstone, the senior director on the same team, put the unusual part plainly, saying the shoes were made from scratch, with designers gathering insights from around the world. Nike fronted the launch with Masai Russell, who won the 100 meter hurdles in Paris in 2024 in 12.33, a hundredth ahead of France’s Cyrena Samba-Mayela. Five months after First Sight was revealed, on August 28, 2026, Russell ran 12.09 in Zurich and took the world record off Tobi Amusan, whose 12.12 had stood since the 2022 World Championships. Nike could not have planned that, and it is the kind of timing a brand spends years failing to buy.

Nike’s own copy for the Mirage opens by getting ahead of the reaction. No, this is not an optical illusion, it reads, before describing a sculpted upper over a lifted, boot-inspired outsole. A polished midsole plate anchors a clear rubber outsole. The upper is synthetic leather and textile over a foam midsole, made in Vietnam. On the colorway, Nike’s full string reads Summit White, Multi-Colour, Ice and Metallic Silver, and that comes from two outlets carrying the box label rather than from a live Nike page, because Nike has pulled this one. Retailers print the short version, Summit White and Metallic Silver. The multi-color element turns out to be narrow and specific: the stud tips under the shoe are blue. Our original headline said white and blue, and on that point it was right. Nike has said the collection’s colorways were developed around the heightened emotion athletes feel before they compete, which is a softer brief than most of its product language and fits a shoe that reveals its color only underneath.

The name is the part worth fixing. This site has published two posts about the same silhouette under two different names, because the Light Crimson pair ran as a First Sight Mirage and this one ran as a Nike Mirage. One of them was wrong, and it was this one. That matters more than a style guide quibble, because First Sight is the argument. Nike does not often design three women’s shoes from nothing at once, and the collection is the clearest recent statement of intent it has made in women’s lifestyle footwear. Nike’s own women’s strategy hub has not been updated since April 2023, so there is no fresh corporate line to quote. The product is the statement. Filing the shoe under a name Nike never used hides it inside the general Nike shelf, which is exactly where a from-scratch project should not sit.

Retail is $170, which places the Mirage well above the $125 Noir that introduced the collection, and it is a real number for a lifestyle shoe with no athlete signature attached. The market has already discounted it. Slam Jam is selling this colorway at $104, a 39 percent cut, three months after release. Oneness Boutique is sold out from 5 to 7 and from 10 to 12 while holding the middle of the run, which is the pattern of a shoe that moved on looks in common sizes and sat in the extremes. No resale figure is published here, because neither StockX nor GOAT returned data for this style code.

The Nike Women’s First Sight Mirage “Summit White” released in June 2026, on June 12 in Japan and around June 18 in the United States. No Nike page carries a date, and both of those come from a Japanese release tracker and a US retailer’s own launch calendar. Style code HQ2412-100, retail $170. Nike has delisted it, and pairs remain at H. Lorenzo, Oneness Boutique and Slam Jam. For more, see our Nike coverage, the Light Crimson Mirage that closed the run, and the First Sight Noir that started it.

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