Adidas Gazelle 'Blue Bold Gold'
Colorway: Pantone/Bold Gold/Core White · Style code: GY7373 · Price: $223 · Availability: Available now
More colorways: adidas Gazelle 'Bold Aqua' (GY7337) · adidas Wmns Gazelle Bold 'Blue Purple Burst' (IG4367) · adidas Wmns Gazelle Bold 'Lucid Blue Pink' (HQ6894) · adidas Wmns Gazelle Bold 'Almost Blue Yellow' (IE0430) · adidas Wmns Gazelle Bold 'Blue Pink Spark' (IG4390)
Gold is rarely more than a detail on a Gazelle. The model has used gold foil for its branding for decades, a thin line of metallic type along the quarter panel, but here Bold Gold is promoted to a full accent colour, sitting across the serrated three stripes and the heel tab against a blue suede upper. That changes the balance of the shoe considerably, since a warm metallic tone covering real surface area behaves nothing like a printed foil mark.
Core White is the third element and supplies the neutral the other two colours need. Blue and gold is a combination with a long history in sport, which may be why a pairing that sounds ostentatious on paper looks settled in practice. The retail price was $100, in line with the rest of the suede range. Worth noting is how the gold behaves on suede rather than leather: the nap diffuses the metallic effect, so the colour reads closer to a warm mustard than to anything shiny.