adidas Gazelle 'Alumina Preloved Green'
Colorway: Alumina/Cream White/Preloved Green · Style code: IE3691 · Release date: February 10, 2024 · Price: $73 · Availability: Available now
Alumina is adidas' name for a cool, chalky beige, the colour of unpolished metal rather than sand, and on suede it comes out soft and slightly grey. Cream White handles the trim, which puts two neutrals of almost the same value next to each other and leaves the shoe reading as a single pale mass until you get close. Preloved Green is the third element and the one that fixes the whole scheme, a faded, dusty green with enough warmth to lift the beige out of flatness without ever behaving like a bright accent.
Three quiet colours is a harder brief than one loud one, and the payoff is a shoe that changes character with the light: greyer indoors, warmer outside, greener where the accent catches. adidas released it on February 10, 2024 at $100. Pale suede of this kind is high maintenance and the green trim is the part that survives wear best, so an old pair tends to drift toward the accent rather than away from it.