adidas Gazelle Indoor 'Collegiate Purple'
Colorway: Collegiate Purple/Cloud White/Shadow Violet · Style code: IF9645 · Release date: September 2024 · Price: $69 · Availability: Available now
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Purple is the least common colour in the Gazelle's regular rotation, and this Indoor runs two of them. Collegiate Purple, a strong mid-tone that leans blue, covers the suede upper, while Shadow Violet, greyer and darker, appears as the third colour and stops the shoe from reading as a single flat block. Cloud White does the contrast work on the serrated three stripes and heel tab, and the result is legible from a distance in a way that a tonal purple pair would not be.
The Indoor cut helps here as well. Its lower stance and thinner sole keep the upper as the dominant surface, so a saturated colour has more room to work than it would on a chunkier silhouette. adidas released this one in September 2024 at $120. Purple suede also fades in a particular way, drifting toward grey at the wear points rather than simply dulling, which means a well-worn pair ends up closer to the Shadow Violet accent than to the colour it started as.