Lozano recalls, "I remembered something Tinker Hatfield used to always bring up while working on other projects, he would say, 'Okay, so that's a great design, but what's your story?'" Inspiration for the 95 came to him one rainy day in Nike headquarters' home of Beaverton, Oregon; "I was looking across the lake out into the trees and I began picturing the process of rain eroding the earth and thought it would be interesting if the perfect product was unearthed by erosion," says Lozano. He took further influences from the anatomy of the human body, where the forms of human muscles and vertebrae were locked into the design. The final shoe had an upper with layered panels that resembled muscle fibers and flesh, Nylon eyelets that were fashioned after ribs, a midsole that took after the spine, and a gradient that resembled geographical striations of eroded rock walls.
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