Adidas NMD_R1 Big Kid 'Black Solar Yellow'
Colorway: Core Black/Solar Yellow/Cloud White · Style code: GY5060 · Release date: March 4, 2021 · Price: $76 · Availability: Available now
More colorways: Adidas NMD_R1 Big Kid 'Watercolor' (GX5402) · adidas NMD_R1 Refined Big Kid 'White Grey' (GY4279) · Adidas NMD_R1 Refined Big Kid 'Black Grey' (GY4278) · Monsters Inc. x adidas NMD_R1 Big Kid 'Boo' (GW0840) · Kevin Lyons x adidas NMD_R1 Refined Big Kid 'Monster' (H00793)
Black with one bright accent is the safest formula in kids' footwear and it works here because the accent is unusually loud. Solar Yellow is a saturated, near-fluorescent shade, and against the Core Black textile upper it needs very little surface area to dominate. The Three Stripes are welded on and kept tonal, so the yellow is never competing with branding for attention.
The lower half breaks the other way. A Cloud White Boost midsole runs the full length of the shoe, splitting it cleanly into a dark upper and a pale sole, and the moulded inserts in the foam sidewall pick up the contrast rather than blending into it. Sized for big kids, the pair released March 4, 2021 at $120, ten dollars over the grade-school pricing the model usually carried and ten under the adult knit version. The collar pulls on like a sock, and the outsole beneath uses the same segmented rubber layout as every other shoe in the family.