adidas Forum Mid 'White Vivid Red'
Colorway: Cloud White/Vivid Red/Cloud White · Style code: GY5819 · Release date: February 4, 2022 · Price: $103 · Availability: Available now
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Red is the loudest accent adidas puts on the Forum, and this mid-cut uses it undiluted. Vivid Red fills the serrated Three Stripes, the ankle strap trim and the branding, set against an upper of Cloud White leather and a matching white cupsole. There is no third colour to soften the collision, so the shoe holds the kind of hard two-tone contrast basketball footwear was built on before tonal palettes took over.
Released on 4 February 2022 at 100 dollars, it landed in the middle of the Forum's heaviest catalogue year. The mid height keeps the collar padded and the strap functional, and the cupsole carries the wedge heel that tilts the shoe slightly forward, both details inherited from the model designed for the court in 1984. White leather with a saturated accent is the oldest formula in the category, which is exactly why it still works here: nothing on the shoe needs explaining, and the red does all the identifying from across a room.