Designed by Nike co-founder Bill Bowerman in 1972, the Cortez originally was a performance-oriented shoe, made famous by runners, and later on by its prominence in the movie Forrest Gump. The silhouette lives on in modern form as a lifestyle shoe. The Nike Cortez Leather ‘Midnight Navy’ packs all that heritage into a tried-and-true blue and white colorway on a leather upper, with the trademark herringbone outsole below.