The Nike Kobe 3 Protro Celebrates “Christmas” in This Week’s Best Footwear Drops

At last, 2025 is coming to a close, with the holiday season ramping up to conclude the year. While many footwear brands are taking the week off, Jordan Brand, Clarks, Nike, and New Balance have all prepared drops to look forward to. Before we work our way through the top 10 releases that are on our radar, let’s look back at which headlines stood out in the sneaker space across the last seven days.On the feature front, we announced ASICS as the 2025 Footwear Brand of the Year as part of our Hypebeast100 rollout. Connected to this, we visited ASICS’ Institute of Sport Science (ISS) in Kobe, Japan. A third footwear feature came courtesy of Village PM, who we connected with to discuss the emerging brand’s unique approach to skate sneakers.As for the standard slate of news, LEGO and Nike teased their own take on the Air Max 95 “Neon,” which will be limited to kids’ sizes. We also previewed a Pendleton x NIGO x Nike Air Force 3 Low “College” pack that is due to drop in 2026. Speaking of next