adidas Forum 84 Low 'Wonder Quartz Black'
Colorway: Wonder Quartz/Off White/Core Black · Style code: FZ6297 · Release date: November 19, 2023 · Price: $162 · Availability: Available now
More colorways: adidas Forum 84 Low 'Sashiko' (GX8564) · adidas Forum 84 Low 'Pink' (GY6980) · adidas Forum 84 Low 'Celtics' (GX9058) · Adidas Forum 84 Low 'Suns' (GX9049) · adidas Forum 84 Low 'Frankenstein' (IH3287)
Wonder Quartz is one of adidas's harder-to-place colours, a pale pink that carries enough grey to stay neutral, and it covers most of this leather Forum 84 Low. Off White handles the serrated Three Stripes and the cupsole, close enough in tone to blend at a distance, while Core Black is held back for the small trims and the branding, where it does the job of sharpening the outline. The result is soft without being pastel.
The 84 designation marks adidas's closest reproduction of the shoe it sold in 1984, which means a full leather upper, the adjustable ankle strap, the X-shaped overlay and the wedge-heeled cupsole rather than any modernised version of those parts. It released on 19 November 2023 at 120 dollars. Leather in a light pink tends to yellow, and the off-white sole is already pitched slightly warm, so the pair is designed to age into a more uniform colour rather than away from one. Among the 84 releases of that year it is the one that reads least like a gym shoe.