Adidas Gazelle 'Power Red'
Colorway: Power Red/White/Gold Metallic · Style code: BB5486 · Price: $152 · Availability: Available now
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Red is the risk colour on this silhouette. A Gazelle in Power Red gives up the neutrality that made the model a default shoe and asks to be the brightest thing in an outfit, which is why the trim matters so much. White handles the serrated three stripes and the heel tab, cutting the red into readable sections rather than letting it sit as one saturated block, and gold metallic covers the branding on the tongue and the wordmark along the lateral quarter. Red with gold is a warmer, older-looking combination than red with silver, and it points back to the terrace pairs rather than to anything contemporary.
The retail price was $112. What a colourway like this depends on is the depth of the dye: a flat red looks plastic, while a red with some darkness in it reads as suede and holds up under sunlight. Power Red is the deeper end of adidas' range, closer to a scarlet than to a fire engine, and it is the reason the pair works at all rather than looking like a costume piece.