adidas Gazelle 'Blue White'
Colorway: Blue/Cloud White/Gold Metallic · Style code: GX2207 · Release date: July 25, 2022 · Price: $74 · Availability: Available now
More colorways: adidas Gazelle 'Blue Cloud White' (IG2093) · adidas Gazelle 'Tactile Blue White' (JR6283) · adidas Gazelle 'Light Blue Off White' (IF9653) · adidas Gazelle 'Sky Blue White Gum' (ID6104) · Adidas Gazelle 'White Royal Blue' (JH5398)
Blue and white with gold lettering is the arrangement that most people picture when they picture this shoe, and this pair does nothing to complicate it. The suede is a clear mid-blue with no grey mixed in, brighter than the navy versions and darker than the pale ones, which puts it in the range that photographs well and wears easily. Cloud White covers the serrated three stripes, the T-shaped toe overlay and the heel tab, and gold foil runs along the lateral quarter panel.
There is no story beyond that, and that is the point of a general release. It went out on July 25, 2022 at $100, sat on shelves alongside a dozen other Gazelles, and did what the model is bought for. The one detail worth noting is how the blue behaves in different light: suede of this weight looks almost royal under a shop lamp and closer to a dusty denim shade outdoors, which is a wider swing than most of the darker colourways manage.