For Back to the Future Day, Nike sent Michael J. Fox a pair of self-lacing shoes

The 2015 Nike Mag.
(Image credit: Twitter.com/sneakernews)

Michael J. Fox received a very special gift on Back to the Future Day: A pair of self-lacing Nike Mag shoes, as prophesied in Back to the Future II.

See more
See more

Nike shoe designer Tinker Hatfield sent Fox a letter, telling him that as Marty McFly, he was the "first, most celebrated wearer" of the self-tying Nike Mag shoes, and he wanted Fox to be the "first to receive a living pair." In the letter, Hatfield wrote that Nike also plans to make more pairs in 2016 in support of the Michael J. Fox Foundation, which is dedicated to finding a cure for Parkinson's disease.

See more

In 2011, Nike auctioned off 1,500 pairs of Nike Air Mag shoes online, with $4.7 million going to the foundation, ABC News reports.

Subscribe to The Week

Escape your echo chamber. Get the facts behind the news, plus analysis from multiple perspectives.

SUBSCRIBE & SAVE
https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/flexiimages/jacafc5zvs1692883516.jpg

Sign up for The Week's Free Newsletters

From our morning news briefing to a weekly Good News Newsletter, get the best of The Week delivered directly to your inbox.

From our morning news briefing to a weekly Good News Newsletter, get the best of The Week delivered directly to your inbox.

Sign up

Continue reading for free

We hope you're enjoying The Week's refreshingly open-minded journalism.

Subscribed to The Week? Register your account with the same email as your subscription.

Catherine Garcia

Catherine Garcia is night editor for TheWeek.com. Her writing and reporting has appeared in Entertainment Weekly and EW.com, The New York Times, The Book of Jezebel, and other publications. A Southern California native, Catherine is a graduate of the University of Redlands and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.